The issue really is that her positions are not based on any bedrock principles other than what is politically palatable at any point in time. For example, in 2002, Chris Mathews asked Hillary. "Do you think New York State should recognize gay marriage?" She responded, "No." But in 2013 she came out in support of gay marriage. Okay, you might say, she just changed her mind on the subject. But when Terry Gross pressed her, she insisted (absurdly) that she had been consistent on the issue. She wouldn't admit that she changed her mind, and she wouldn't admit that she supported gay marriage all along but just couldn't say so for political reasons. Well, it has to be one or the other.