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The reason the GOP hates Bill is because he attacked the racists in Arkansas without mercy, telling the man, Jim Johnson, who pressured Orville Faubus into his hard-line stance to keep blacks out of Little Rock High: "You make me sick; I'm ashamed you're from Arkansas." That man, after finally giving up on electoral politics (he tried to become governor), in some measure because of Bill Clinton, retired to his home which he named White Haven. Clinton also made sure the legal system in Arkansas was rid of the vestiges of racism. When Clinton ran for president, national GOP figures came down to meet with Johnson and other racist Clinton haters in Arkansas. One such national figure was Floyd Brown who did the Willie Horton ad for Bush I that helped take out Dukakis. All these men got together and tried to politically assassinate Clinton.
The GOP hates Hillary because she was on the House committee that investigated the impeachment charges against Nixon and because she is an uppity woman.
Also Clinton taxed the rich to get rid of the Reagan budget deficit, and, of course, he won 2 elections and everyone knows the White House belongs to the GOP.
The rank and file just mindless follow the leader and hate the Clinton's because their leaders told them to--that's why they have no reasons, or falsehoods, to offer in interviews.
PS The suffering caused the Clinton's by the Arkansas racists who hated them for their staunch support of civil rights is why Bill is so mad at Obama for saying that he, Bill, played the race card, was a racist.
