Hillary Clinton: The Teflon Girl
September 23, 2007 / 2:39 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierIt seems to me that Hillary Clinton’s ubiquity plays to her favor. As grating as her voice is, as phony as the laugh is, as contradictory as her stances are, her willingness to go everywhere is the meta message. She wants it. In case anyone doubted that fact, which no one does. But Americans admire the fighters. And right now, I think that Hillary looks like a fighter.
In her language, she still, without irony, casts herself as the underdog. Can a woman be a big dog? The women candidates campaign as little women. That’s tiresome, but I guess it works.
She’s playing politics like a big dog, scandalizing like a Clinton big dog, and playing the election like a little girl.
Hillary Clinton may just be the Teflon Girl.
