Republican Operative: Drudge And Limbaugh's Attacks On Hillary's Age Help Her With Republican Women
December 18, 2007 -- 6:49 PM EST // //

I was all set to do another Drudge-is-a-slimeball post based on the fact that he's kept a despicable photo up on his site for literally days now that shows Hillary in, shall we say, less than tip-top form...

...when a Republican operative I know called me and actually complained about what Drudge is doing.

The photo -- which I'm not linking to or reproducing here -- shows Hillary looking just a tad more mature than usual. When I said to this GOP operative that surely some Republicans would be turned off by such attacks, he said: "Yeah -- they're called Republican women."

Much to this operative's chagrin, Rush Limbaugh has reproduced Drudge's photo on his site (not linking to that, either) and has launched a whole attack on Hillary's age. Rush asked the following tasteful, chivalrous and thoroughly relevant question:

Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?

Here's what the GOP operative had to say about this: "How the f--k is it helpful to have a fat, middle-aged guy sitting there yukking it up about how old she looks? This'll only make Republican women like her more."

For my part, I tend to think that such stuff from Rush and Drudge is having less of an impact than ever in the real world, but this is certainly an interesting take. At the very least, it certainly isn't what Drudge and Rush have in mind. Might be worth remembering this dynamic, should she become the nominee.

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