Let's take a look at the facts:
The Conscience of a Conservative:
~Hillary was raised in a politically conservative household. At age thirteen she canvassed for the South Side Chicago for Republicans.
~Hillary's early political development was shaped most by her high school history teacher (like her father, a fervent anticommunist), who introduced her to Barry Goldwater's classic The Conscience of a Conservative.
~Hillary became a Goldwater Girl, volunteering to campaign for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election of 1964.
~In 1965, Hillary enrolled at Wellesley College, where she majored in political science. She served as president of the Wellesley Young Republicans and actively supported the elections of Republicans like John Lindsay and Edward Brooke.
~Hillary's professor Alan Schechter assigned Hillary to intern at the House Republican Conference.
~Hillary was invited by Republican Representative Charles Goodell to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller's campaign for the Republican nomination in 1968.
~Hillary attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami in support of Nelson Rockefeller.
~Hillary's senior thesis was a critical exploration of the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.
Her professional career revolved around corporate investment:
~Hillary became a savvy business investor and earned a higher salary than that of her husband from 1978 until 1992.
~Hillary made a spectacular profit from trading cattle futures contracts, investing $1,000 that generated nearly $100,000 within just ten months.
~Hillary incorporated the Whitewater Development Corporation on June 18, 1979, with the purpose of developing vacation properties on 230 acres of land along the White River near Flippin, Arkansas.
~Hillary was a partner at Rose Law Firm while she was First Lady of Arkansas - pulling in $200,000 in her final year there. As First Lady she very influential in the appointment of state judges. In 1986 she was accused having a conflict of interest since she was involved in assigning judges that would hear cases involving her firm.
~Another conflict of interest arose when Rose Law Firm began representing a bank that was being investigated by state regulators that her husband Bill had appointed.
~Hillary was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America: in 1988 and in 1991
~Hillary held positions on the corporate board of directors of several corporations: TCBY (1985–1992), Wal-Mart Stores (1986–1992) and Lafarge (1990–1992).
~Hillary participated in crafting Wal-Mart's famously anti-labor union practices.
~Her law firm represented Monsanto
As first Lady, she was the subject of several investigations by the United States Office of the Independent Counsel and several committees of the U.S. Congress for her unethical behavior:
~Scrutiny of the May 1993 firings of the White House Travel Office employees, an affair that became known as "Travelgate", began with charges that the White House had used audited financial irregularities in the Travel Office operation as an excuse to replace the staff with friends from Arkansas. The 2000 final Independent Counsel report concluded she was involved in the firings and that she had made "factually false" statements.
~On January 26, 1996, Hillary became the only First Lady to ever be subpoenaed to testify before a Federal grand jury
~In June of 1996 discovery of improper White House access to hundreds of FBI background reports on former Republican White House employees were made public. Accusations by the Independent Council were that Hillary had requested the files.
Whitewater
The Clintons lost their late-1970s investment in the Whitewater Development Corporation at the same time, their partners in that investment, Jim and Susan McDougal, operated Madison Guaranty. Madison Guaranty was a savings and loan institution that retained the legal services of Rose Law Firm (where Hillary was a partner) that was improperly subsidizing Whitewater losses. Independent counsels Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Hillary's legal billing records but Hillary said she did not know where they were. However the records were found in the First Lady's White House book room and delivered to investigators in early 1996.
As a Senator she was unethical in siding with corporate/wall street interests:
~In her campaign for Senator, Hillary was labeled a carpetbagger by NY residents since she had never resided in New York nor participated in the state's politics before this race
~Hillary suddenly found religion and became regular participant in the Senate Prayer Breakfast.
~Still obsessed with corporate profits, Hillary served on the Committee on Budget
~She voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 and then voted for it Again In 2005, when the act was up for renewal (despite the civil liberties concerns with it that liberals had)
~Hillary strongly supported the 2001 U.S. military action in Afghanistan
~Hillary voted in favor of the October 2002 Iraq War Resolution, which authorized President George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq
~In 2005 Hillary introduced legislation to increase the size of the regular United States Army by 80,000 soldiers
~Along with Senator Joe Lieberman, Hillary introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to censor makers of video games
~Hillary spent $36 million for her reelection, more than any other candidate for Senate in the 2006 elections, causing several Democrats to criticize her
~In the financial crisis of 2007–2008 reached a peak, Hillary supported the bailout of "too big to fail" financial institution and voted in favor of the $700 Bail out, saying that it represented the interests of the American people.
...So can someone tell me what the difference between Hillary and a Republican is???
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