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Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House

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Most conservatives are completely baffled by the Hillarymania of today's liberals. A recent poll illustrates that she remains a highly polarizing figure among the American electorate. Should she run in 2008, the right will have no trouble turning out its base as 48% of the population hold an unfavorable view of her. Her road to victory will be formidable, but the Clintons have encountered numerous challenges over the years and emerged victorious time after time. It is undoubtedly for this reason that R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (with Mark Davis) decided to write Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House.
Their account is a brief political history of the woman who could be queen. It is also an attempt to warn us of what may happen should she seize power. This biography gazes into the future and is terrified by what may be.
The "Madame" in the title refers to China's Madame Mao who was known as "the white boned demon." Tyrrell does not accuse Hillary Clinton of being a demon but does believe that the respectable person presented to us by her PR department does not in fact exist. Senator Clinton is a "Coat and Tie Radical" who has never forgotten or disowned the revolutionary ideas of the 1960's. Society exists for her and her kind to reconfigure.
As the allusion to Madame Mao may have informed you, this book is not an objective account of Hillary's life. It is written from the perspective of a warrior in the Clinton Wars and there is nothing equivocal in its narration.
As Editor in Chief of The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell's experiences with the Clintons were legion and none of them produced pleasure. He recounts a story when he ran across Bill in the Jockey Club. He decided to ask him a question. The former President responded with annoyance and a very pathetic temper tantrum. Yet Tyrrell notes that it was Hillary's cold stare, as opposed to Mr. Clinton's babyish whines, that truly unnerved him.
Madame Hillary will not appeal to anyone on the left or moderates in general as there is little diplomatic or uncertain about its tone. Tyrrell has seen all he needs to see from the former first lady and, while he admits that she has made great strides in her political skills, he fears for all of our futures should she become president.
"Madame Hillary would, in her wildest dreams, undoubtedly relish a presidency that was an unending left-wing rampage, a national Cambodian re-education camp for anyone caught wearing an Adam Smith necktie or scarf. Such `extremists are the enemy, after all, composing the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that must be scotched if Clintonian America is to be saved. She would install an all-woman Cabinet to thumb her nose at the patriarchy...With Hillary now making all the appointments, why not have a Cabinet full of short-haired harridans and crypto-Marxists from assorted left-wing hothouses?"
She is one of the most important people on our planet and Tyrrell believes this outcome is not due to chance. He depicts her as an individual consumed by ambition and a lust for power. Her personality is colored by an overwhelming need to control others. She is a "self-promoting dynamo" and a "self-regarding existentialist." What steps she takes (and over whom) are irrelevant. The ends always justify the means. The author asks Dick Morris about her private life and he relays that she doesn't have one. Hillary is an example of a life whose essence is to make the most of the political opportunities that are encountered.
Madame Hillary is a well-written work and a general good use of one's time, yet it is by no means a comprehensive history of the junior Senator from New York. If that's what the reader is looking for I'd recommend Barbara Olson's Hell to Pay instead. Although, as far as producing entertainment and arguments for the conservative faithful, there are few better or more timely offerings available than this strident book by Emmett Tyrrell.

One of the most useful aspects of this important and entertaining book is the light it sheds on how the Clintons (both of them) habitually respond to any criticism: (1) Vigorously deny it; (2) Launch ad hominem attacks on the critic; (3) Act personally victimized by the criticism ("Why do they hate me?"); and (4) Say the critic is obsessing over "old news." Some of the reviews on this page prove their supporters have learned the script well.

The Clintons and their scandals are hardly old news, given that she is a powerful US Senator and presumptive candidate for the presidency. Bob Tyrrell has had the Clintons' number from the beginning. And in this book, he picks up the late Barbara Olsen's torch as the writer with perhaps the clearest understanding of Hillary Clinton, her deeply radical, if deeply camouflaged, designs for our country, her lust for power, and how she intends to go about winning it.

The problem is that the Clintons arouse such strong feelings, both pro and con, that it can be difficult to separate the facts from the *Kultursmog* (such a great word -- I've admired it for years). Tyrrell and coauthor Mark Davis have done the heavy lifting for us, giving us chapter-and-verse not only on the Clintons' Arkansas and White House years, but also Madame Hillary's journey "from Methodism to Maoism" (p. 120) and into the ranks of Coat and Tie Radicals. Like Olsen, Tyrrell sees the heavy hand of Saul Alinsky not only in her early radical years, but also in her approach to politics and power even today. This is enlightening and disturbing reading.

I've always suspected that one of the things the Left hates most about Bob Tyrrell is not just that he skewers them so thoroughly, but that he has such fun doing it (Ann Coulter commits this sin too). This book "was a pleasure to write," he notes on page 209, and I have no doubt he means it. It was a pleasure to read, too. Tyrrell has always had a way with language that recalls some of the great polemicists, Mencken being the most obvious comparison. But the key to Tyrrell is that he backs up his entertaining and sometimes idiosyncratic language not only with solid research -- kudos to coauthor Davis here -- but also with a rational train of argument and conclusions that flow logically from the facts presented (far be it from me to suggest Ann Coulter sometimes parts company with him here, to say nothing of scurrilous windbags like Michael Moore, but I can see how you might reach that conclusion).

Hillary Clinton is going to remain a political force in this country for a long time to come. So long as she does, this book will be an important reminder not only of the fraudulence of her so-called "accomplishments" (which are what ... exactly?), but also of her true motivations, goals, and a track record that -- Point Four above notwithstanding -- should be much on the mind of the American voter. That makes "Madame Hillary" a book to keep handy for the next decade or so, at least.

I should start this review by saying I used to subscribe to the liberal agenda. I believed in state sponsored dole programs, government intervention in the affairs of everyday life, and the use of the judiciary to bring about change. Yes, my friends, I even voted for Bill Clinton in 1996. Then, about six or seven years ago, I experienced what I can only describe as an epiphanic experience, a Kuhnian paradigm shift in my political outlook. Several factors accounted for my sudden migration away from the liberal cosmology. Arguably the largest influence on my new sense of the world occurred from reading history. I quickly saw that the ideas of today's elites didn't jibe with reality, that these concepts had been tried before and had always failed. Even worse, not only did liberalism fail, it brought about the end of civilizations. The scandals emanating from the Clinton White House also did a lot to dampen my enthusiasm for the liberal "truths." Anyone who could blindly support the Clintons despite the deluge of lies, smears, and outright crimes perpetrated by the dynamic duo are truly pathetic creatures in dire need of help. The idea of Hillary Clinton running for, let alone winning, the presidency of this great nation is a notion that sends chills down my spine.

"Hillary for President" also scares R. Emmett Tyrrell and Mark W. Davis, so much so that the two conservatives decided to write this slim novel outlining the ways Hillary will attempt to usher in an era of far left quackery the likes of which even Lenin, Stalin, and Mao could not have foreseen. According to Tyrrell and Davis, Hillary Clinton's background as a "coat and tie radical" in the 1960s and 1970s, along with her subsequent record as First Lady and her Senate career, should disqualify her from serving as President of the United States. The authors outline in ghastly detail the real Hillary Clinton, from her early work as a pro-Marxist ideologue following the tenets of radical troublemaker Saul Alinsky, to her article calling for the complete liberation of children from their parents, to her weird relationship with Willie. What emerges is a portrait of a woman so inebriated with power, so in love with herself and her pro-communist vision for America, that she will do almost anything to attain the Oval Office. Watching horror films and reading horror novels is one of my favorite hobbies, and let me tell you right here and now that "Madame Hillary" is one of the most horrific books I have ever read. Although the authors seem to think there is hope for stopping Hillary and her extremist agenda even if the public does put her into office in 2008, I have grave doubts whether the country could long survive another Clinton administration.

Could Hillary Clinton become president in 2008? According to "Madame Hillary," anything is possible where the Clintons are involved. The attention seeking former first family never passes up an opportunity to grab the spotlight even at the expense of the current crop of presidential hopefuls. Hillary uses her position in the Senate to garner headlines, raises and dispenses millions through several PACs to other party apparatchiks, and carefully stakes out positions on pertinent issues of the day in an attempt to set herself up as a candidate in the next presidential election. Madame Hillary has her talons firmly planted around the throat of the Democratic Party, and she will use this position and influence to fulfill her "destiny." If that "destiny" comes to fruition, disaster will follow. How so? Remember the universal health care debacle of the early 1990s where she attempted to socialize our medical system? A Hillary regime would be much worse. Senator Clinton will attempt to socialize all aspects of our society by increasing entitlements to undreamt of levels, increasing taxes to European heights, and further radicalize the judiciary. She could win the presidency, but I have to believe she won't. Hopefully, too many people will remember the scandals.

What drives Hillary Clinton to remake America? Saul Alinsky and her days as a radical at college inform our former First Lady's belief system. Tyrrell and Davis pored through Hillary's "Living History" and adroitly compared statements she made in the book with Alinsky's radical primer for overthrowing society. The comparisons are frightful. Senator Clinton's penchant for confrontation, her practice of emphasizing symbols over ethics, and the belief that discord instills meaning in one's life all mesh with the tripe found in Alinsky's book. Through these three tactics, Hillary Clinton will destroy all of our institutions and replace them with her own brand of leftist extremism. If you don't think the former First Lady is a leftist ideologue, look at what she says, at the groups that support her, and then visit the library to dig up Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." This short essay was written to expose the psychological contours of the far right, but the same analysis applies to all extremists. I think you'll see what Hillary Clinton is all about after reading this informative article. Then read "Madame Hillary."

I have two complaints about the book. One, it isn't as funny as "Boy Clinton." You can tell Tyrrell didn't write the whole thing because the book is missing his trademark wit. Second, the heavy emphasis on power politics makes for a depressing read. Republicans and Democrats struggle not in an effort to accomplish anything but in order to grab power. I am already quite cynical about politics, and I know the book's descriptions of the shenanigans going on in Washington are true regardless of party, but I am always still surprised by the depths elites will go to attain power. Still, Hillary Clinton is the worst of the lot if her past record is any indication. Let's hope circumstances will keep her out of the White House forever.

LISTEN UP all you political Junkies out there in America, There is something rotten in the capital and her name is Madam Hillary. This book should be required reading for any politcal junkie. It exposes the truth behind the most powerful senator in the nation. This book will make your blood curdle because this stuff is so true what she is doing. I am not a conservative but when you look at who we have running Kerry or Bush. Bush looks more appealing. The question will she bide her time and run in 08 assuming that Bush wins or will she accept the VP nomination. Whatever the case maybe, this is a must read and it will tell you just how power hungry she really is. All those PACS and what not. She is a real threat not to be taken lightly. Unless you want to wake up one day and say president elect Clinton again. R. Emmett Tryyell is doing a service to the public by writing this book it is funny and scary at the same time. So for any political Junkie out their READ IT.

One of the most talked about things in politics is if and when Hillary will run for the White House. Who would know better than someone who has covered or uncovered the Clintons and Hillary over the year than Emmett Tryrell.

Tyrell's Magazine, the American Spectator, has given Americans an interesting look into the Clinton White House and Hillary. Tyrell's book delves into the almost forbidden topic of Hillary as President, and his detailed information is simply amazing.

Along with Tyrell is Mark Davis, who brings to light things no one else has ever released. These two make an unbeatable pair in exposing the truth of why Hillary wants the White House and what she has and is doing to get there.

I was most impressed by how much information is given throughout this entire book. It was a quick read of only 4 hours and it ranks as one of the best insights ever written. Overall if you are looking to see the real sides of the game, than you are ready for this book.

Plainly stated, I was disappointed with this book. I am certainly part of the target audience for this book, being pretty disgusted with the Clinton duo. However, what I hoped for was a factual tome of the flaws, failings, and deceit of the junior senator from NY. What I got was a repetetive, smarmy, and poorly constructed screed against her that offered little new information and was so partisan in tone that it became untrustworthy even as a source of dirt. Authors on both sides of the political debate need to realize that too snippy a tone tends to turn off the average reader.

In more detail, the book is full of allegations of radical beliefs, wretched interpersonal skills, and bald-faced deceit but precious few illustrations of same. Don't tell me that Senator Clinton is a horrid person to work for with no sense of two-way loyalty, give me examples. Don't quote the radicals who supposedly influenced her beliefs, show me examples of her demonstrating those beliefs.

In short, while there is some interesting information in this book, it misses the mark. It could have been an exhaustive record of the senator's changing of beliefs, opportunism, and political deceit. Intead, we get an annoyingly repetetive and shrill attack without a great deal of substance. For anyone but those who simply want to nod and agree without learning anything new, this book is a wash.

MADAME HILLARY
THE DARK ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE

This is probably the most focused and serious book I've read by Mr. Tyrrell. He clearly suppressed his considerable talent for amusingly limning the Clintons as the clowns that they are to deliver instead a steady, updated, and well-informed account of what they are up to and why we need to remain concerned with their machinations. The Clintons takeover and manipulations of the Democratic Party are described well and documented early in the book. The Clintons today, as demonstrated by Tyrrell and Davis, bring things to the Democratic Party that allow them to shape it and perhaps even control it. Namely, these things are star status among the liberal true believers from the gays to the feminists to the muddle-minded suburban housewives, connections to Hollywood, and more important in the today's Democratic Party than the other things, they bring money. Hillary is a major player at collecting it and distributing it to those who play the game she wants them to play. This doling out of funding has made her a player who is, in the words of the authors, "Steering the Senate." Hillary's quick emergence to high power and other examples in the book about someone whom most of us never thought could get elected to the US Senate should cause us to take seriously Tyrrell's suspicions that Hillary is aligning herself to move back into the White House.

The Clintons efforts to take further control of the Democratic Party can be seen in the information and examples the authors offer up. Some of these examples provided of how they are doing this are their setting up of a Left Wing Think Tank [the Center for American Progress], their advocating and supporting the setting up of openly left wing TV and radio, Hillary's HILLPAC and Hill's Angels, their ties to Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe and billionaire left-wing Bush hater George Soros, their ties to union leaders like John Sweeney President of the AFL-CIO, their continued hold on the greatest Hollywood fund raisers, and Bill Clintons ability to motivate black voters are just a few of the topics the authors discuss in their outline of the Clintonian techniques for controlling the party.

In their chapter "Livid History," the authors provided information of particular interests to me. Here Tyrrell and Davis reviewed Hilary's 8 million dollar book Living History. Tyrrell and Davis recount all the reckless and gratuitous mendacities Hillary tried to put behind her in her version of history as she described it. As the authors see it, Hillary tackled these controversies to assure her political viability and to make her political rise all the more possible, so she spun stories about the scandals that have surrounded her and her husband. ... To set the record straight, Tyrrell and Davis perforce deftly debunk Hillary's portrayal of Watergate, Travel Gate, Foster Gate, Cattle Futures Gate, Trooper Gate, Monica Gate, and Pardon Gate, to name a few. The authors depict Hillary as a sort of Left Wing John Bircher able to crank out weird conspiracy theories in order to avoid accountability and to distract people from the truth. Then there are the names that bring back the memories of the tawdry years when the nation was unable to purge itself of these two "coat and tie radicals" as Tyrrell likes to call them. There are Craig Livingstone, Betsey Wright, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Vincent Foster, and Monica Lewinsky to name a few. Hillary may want us to forget about these people and other scandals, but as the authors point out she couldn't resist trying to have the final word in her book with ridiculous accounts that the authors prove to be self-serving lies. They also remind us of the Clinton tactic for dealing with scandal, which in brief was "1) Vigorously deny a given charge. 2) Question the motives of an accuser or any accessory to the charge (reporters, prosecutors, victims). 3) Or recast the charge in a sweet or melancholy way: "Oh, how sad," or "I don't know if I can go on." 4) Vilify anyone still interested in the charge as an obsessive, a Clinton-hater, a sucker for "old news"..."

The authors point out how quickly Hillary has been forgiven and given newfound respect. Those who only a few years ago were finally on to the Clintons after pardon Gate and their stealing from the White House as they left Washington for New York even now look the other way and show respect to Senator Clinton when she demands explanations from President Bush. This collective amnesia is yet another reason to take seriously Tyrrell's concerns that Hillary might be actually able to mount a successful campaign for president.

There is much more to this book, and I hope it receives the audience it truly deserves. All Americans concerned with current events should read this book.

Fantastic read! One of the better and more informed books I've had the pleasure to read. The author captures the true Hillary and leaves out little of her shameful power hungry scheming. Tyrrell lists specifics and appears to have close knowledge of many of the events. He also seems to have the best and most accurate perception of Hillary's ambitious nature. To the naysayers out there, I doubt you read the book. Ask yourself why a woman who has never lived in New York, would suddenly buy a home there? She did it for political gain. She bought the home in the most liberal democratic state in the nation so she could run for the office of Senator. Amazingly she was elected by the fools who live in that state! They elected a completely unqualified person with absolutely no political experience other than "wife" of a past president. How crazy is that? And some people think she should run for the office of president? It boggles the mind there are so many stupid people out there. People who cannot, or will not, see her for what she really is.

What a book! Somehow, Tyrrell and Davis succeeded in getting United States Senators to talk about what it is really like to work with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. This book also details the inside story of how the Clintons control their party. Perhaps the best part was the chapter on "Fatal Attraction," which uses electoral math to show how the Democrats' love affair with the Clintons threatens to kill the Democratic Party.

They're posted by irrational, biased Clinton lovers. This author has not "made a career" of bashing the Clintons. I have read other books by him as well as articles from his magazine. They are thoroughly researched, the dozens and dozens of reliable sources are all cited, and only an IDIOT would contend it's fiction rather than fact. Mr. Tyrell does a public service in exposing the Clintons for the corrupt liars they are. Highly recommended.