Stanley Fish takes a whack at the Hillary haters, suggesting that hating Hillary is a bit like hating Bush: mostly irrational, mostly unfair:

She is vilified for being a feminist and for not being one, for being an extreme leftist and for being a “warmongering hawk,” for being godless and for being “frighteningly fundamentalist,” for being the victim of her husband’s peccadilloes and for enabling them. “She is,” Horowitz concludes, “an empty vessel into which [her detractors] can pour everything they detest.” (In this she is the counterpart of George W. Bush, who serves much the same function for many liberals.)

She is definitely a cipher in this respect, a lightning rod, a vessel.  I suppose this is why her teary-eyed video in New Hampshire was so welcome.  We tried to pour some kind of something into her mythos then, but alas, we couldn’t.  She defined herself in that moment, and for once, we could not define her.  Fish’s aligning Hillary with Bush is a good rhetorical move, too, and keeps him credible.