Hillary -- One's First Wife

Back in 1992 some female reporter said George H. W. Bush wasn't popular with women voters because "he reminds every woman of her first husband." I guess some people knew what she meant, despite the fact that many women have either had only one husband or never married, and that even with some of his admittedly puzzling public policy stances Bush was a pretty solid and dependable guy (and a war hero). There were women who voted for GHWB who loved their husbands, something the harridan media elite wouldn't understand.

Now we're told that even large numbers of Republican women will get in the sanctum sanctorum of the voting booth and vote for Hillary. I hear that while Hillary will not carry the male vote, she will probably come close. She will supposedly also do very well with other traditional GOP constituencies. I assume most of this is either from push polls, or based on name ID. Maybe it's a result of spin from the Hillary camp and her water-carriers in the media -- the same type of people who trashed GHWB.

What I am not hearing (so I'll be the one to say it) is that despite ideology men in large numbers will vote for "ABH" (Anybody But Hillary) because she reminds them of their first wife. Even happily married men will vote against Hillary because she will remind them of somebody else's first wife. I've been married once, and for 23 years, and Hillary still reminds me of that octopus woman rising up from the sea at the end of Disney's The Little Mermaid. I can imagine what men who have gone through a bitter divorce must think.