text: why are conservatives so scared of hilary clinton? everywhere i look, i see conservatives trying to paint sen. clinton (d-ny) as some sort of firebrand liberal.  her record in the senate certainly doesn't support that characterization.  obviously this is a blatantly partisan attempt to smear the soon-to-be front runner for the democratic presidential nomination.  why are conservatives so scared of clinton, and not gov. mark warner or sen. joe biden?  is it because they think she can win? i think it's a smokescreen. there's a lot of noise being raised about ms. clinton, and most of it's coming from the republicans. i think the plan is to get the recognition factor going, and hope that she gets nominated, because the gop think they'll have an easy time beating her. if they try that swift boat garbage with her, they just might. she's a very polarizing figure, and if you've been on yahoo answers awhile, you know that there's people that absolutely despise the clinton name. as for why spitzer or biden isn't mentioned, it's whistling past the graveyard.