Guest: Vocal anti-Clinton minority 'projects' its loathing
Posted: Sunday, January 31, 1999  In observing the political
arena as I have for the past few years, it's been quite clear
that there are a number of folks who simply hate Bill Clinton.
Certainly there are legitimate complaints and concerns about
Clinton, but a visceral hatred for the man has been around long
before anyone ever heard the name "Monica Lewinsky." It's just
that Clinton-haters now have a flag to wave, with the words
"Monica" and "impeachment" embroidered on it, seemingly to
validate the hate they have harbored all along.  While political
partisanship certainly plays a big role in the Republican
efforts to remove Clinton from office, I think the absolutely
venomous hate might be better explained by the psychological
phenomenon of projection. Psychological projection can be
described as the attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings or
desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious
defense against anxiety or guilt. In a nuts