The Teflon Factor

Back in the early eighties, Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder first referred to Ronald Reagan as the “Teflon President,” because nothing she and her fellow Democrats threw at him ever seemed to stick.  To hear her tell it, the term occurred to her one morning as she was frying eggs for her kids. .

It was a great line, and one of the few things that did stick to a man who became one of the most popular presidents in history.

Since Reagan, the term has been applied (with varying degrees of accuracy) to several of his successors including Democrats Clinton and Obama, but if this past week’s Benghazi hearings proved anything, it is that Hillary Clinton has the Teflon factor in spades.  To use one of my grandfather’s home-spun colloquialisms, the woman was “slicker than snails in a barrel of snot!”

I guess that’s what my liberal friends mean when they say she looked presidential.