Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan was in NH Sunday covering the Dem debate, watching the action on two huge screens. When Hillary Clinton’s greatly magnified face appeared on the screen, it was obvious she had undergone a dramatic transformation:

The instant Hillary appears, the woman behind me whispers, “Oh look at Hillary. She’s had work done!” 

I put the question to WBZ’s political guru Jon Keller: Notice anything about Hillary? “Botox,” he replied, not missing a beat. …

Hillary’s new glow was all the talk on “The View.” This was when we needed Rosie O’Donnell to cut to the chase and bellow, “Did she get an eye job? A face lift?” Sadly, Rosie’s gone and nobody else dared admit what they were thinking. …

In the offices of dermatologist-to-the-stars Jeffrey Dover of SkinCare Physicians, Chestnut Hill, a visiting “anchorwoman,” said Dover, noted Hillary’s “flawless, almost dewy” appearance and wondered if it was spectacular makeup or Botox, or perhaps fillers or microdermabrasion. …

“Absolutely the first thing that struck me was her jawline,” says politico/fashionista No. 1. “She was bordering on babelicious.

Without having to recuperate from surgery or to cover up telltale bruising or sutures, Dover tells Eagan, “Hillary could’ve left an event in Washington at 9 o’clock, had all this done and been back on the campaign trail next morning,” adding that if Hillary did not want to admit she had a tune-up, no one would know. Except maybe Don Imus, who famously called her Bill Clinton’s “fat ugly wife, Satan.”

But this isn’t Hillary’s only transformation on the campaign trail. On more than one occasion, she has adopted a Southern accent (or an approximation of same) – which is all the more odd considering that she is a New Yorker. No wait, make that an Arkansan. Um, an Illinoisan?

In an article that was originally headlined “Clinton Makeover Accents Her Midwestern Roots” (later amended to “Clinton Accents Her Midwestern Roots”), The Washington Post reports that “the Clinton campaign has embarked on an ambitious effort to present the candidate the way they want her to be seen: as a pragmatic Midwesterner with a compelling life story of her own, rather than just the famous, and sometimes polarizing, senator and former first lady most of the country already knows she is.”

So she’s been making a point of opening her stump speeches by telling audiences that she was “born into a middle-class family in the middle of America, in the middle of the last century.” And she’s also begun telling audiences about the hardscrabble origins of her mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham (teenaged parents who sent her to live with her paternal grandparents when they divorced in 1920); the octogenarian lives with the Clintons in Washington, D.C. (The WaPo notes that “[w]ith two controversial brothers and with her father deceased, it makes sense that Clinton would gravitate toward her mother as she sketches her early life.”)

The Stiletto doesn’t quite know how cosmetic procedures and a corn-pone accent fits into the overall strategy of making Hillary more appealing to Midwestern voters, but according to the WaPo, “[i]ntroducing biographical information about her childhood and early adulthood, her advisers hope, will flesh out the familiar caricature of Clinton as an overly ambitious careerist who leaves scandal in her wake.”

Yeah, right. Truth is, no mater how much botox Hillary injects into her facial musculature, and no matter how many chemical peels she undergoes to slough off her slithery skin, a sizable percentage of the electorate will still think of her as Satan.

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