Not really.
We know you don't like her because she's a woman,
Wrong. There are female leaders I like.
but the fact is that gender aside she's one of the most qualified candidates.
Gender aside? The only reason people say she is "one of the most qualified candidates" is because of her gender. Without the woman card, her resume would be middling at best. That's quite beside from the fact that without being married to Bill she would never have landed the Senate seat and SecState position.
She was a two-term Senator and the highest ranking Cabinet Secretary.
A Senate term is 6 years. She served 8. So 1 1/3 term would be more accurate.
As far as SecState, that cabinet post has been a terminal office in recent times (by recent, I mean 100+ years). The last SecState to be elected president was James Buchanan, in mid 19th century!
Compare Hillary with her running mate. Mayor of Richmond, Lieutenant Governor, Governor, DNC chairman and finally Senator. Government experience on local and state levels, in both executive and legislative side.
Having lived in the White House for 8 years she is intimately familiar with the workings of that residence,
As is the White House chef. That's my chief problem with those who want to claim Hillary is "the most qualified". They have to use her being married to Bill as qualification.
and as one of the most politically active First Ladies she was involved in the Clinton administration to a considerable degree. By some accounts, while she's not as charismatic as her husband she is actually the smarter of the two.
Is "by some accounts" the same as "
some say"?
I somehow do not think Bill would have made mistakes like saying he dodged bullets in Tuzla or say he was dead broke because he had a mortgage on several houses, or any of the whoppers Hillary made over the years.
This is what frightens serial misogynists most. A powerful, connected and politically savvy person smarter than them who just happens to have a vagina.
1. Not a misogynist.
2. I did not have a problem with Golda Myer or Margaret Thatcher. I do not have a problem with Theresa May. I do not have a problem with Angela Merkel on account of her gender but on account of her ushering in Muslim mass migration to Germany last year.
3. I am just not impressed with Hillary. I do not think she is anywhere close to being "smartest woman in America" for example. Her political career is predicated on who she is married to, unlike the above mentioned women.
Of course this is going to be terrifying to men so corpulent and socially inept that they have to pay women to touch them, but those pathetic lonely individuals aside, the fact that this sort of rhetoric still exists in this society speaks to the fact that we've still got work to do.
1. People who dislike Hillary do not do it because of her gender. There are much more vile things being said about Trump. Do all those people hate men?
2. Using my personal life and lack of dating success as an "argument" just shows how vacuous your position is. You can't make a convincing pro-Hillary case and that's not really your fault. It's hers.
Feminism (sorry, did I trigger you with that word?) still exists because the scales still are not even.
They are more than even. The pendulum has swung way in the other direction.
According to the latest polls, the race is within the statistical margin of error. About 40 percent of Americans look at the choices presented - a man with absolutely no experience in politics or government vs a woman who has spent more time in the White House than any man except FDR - and they're convinced that the man would be the better option.
Again with you using living in the White House and being married to the president as some sort of qualification.
Of course sexism isn't the only factor...
Whatever sexism against Hillary there might be (and it is highly overrated) it is more than compensated for the kind of sexism that wants to elect a woman, any woman, to the presidency.
I think the biggest problem is the candidate herself. She is viewed as untrustworthy, she fails the beer test etc.
but there's nobody on the GOP side comparable to Hillary,
Well no wives of presidents were running if that's what you mean. As far as political experience, there were several candidates who were far more experienced that Hillary.
and except for Carly the failed CEO Fiorina the Party of Lincoln hasn't even entertained the idea of a woman at the top of the ticket.
Because the gender should trump all else, right?
I mean, Condi Rice was Secretary of State, National Security Director, and a black woman to boot but they didn't even ask her. No, we'll go with the orange-headed blowhard on his third trophy wife, says the Republican Party.
These days you have to run for office yourself, put yourself out there. The party doesn't go around asking people to run, especially when there are 17 candidates already.
The first woman President, or a President who treats women like trinkets...loving them until the sparkle fades and then discarding them for a new shiny object. As Trump himself would say...sad.
A president who treats women like trinkets, or the wife or a president who treats women like trinkets.
