Hillary Clinton Supporters Ask: ‘How’d She Lose to This Guy?’
How did she lose? Three reasons:
1. Baggage from the Clinton administration. She was saddled with the excesses and corruption of their two-for-the-price-of-one administration. Since they had an alternative that they could stomach, Democrats were free to look at the Clintons objectively and decide whether they wanted four more years of Bubba in the White House.
2. Media Bias. The media has fallen in love with someone new, somebody younger and prettier. It’s as simple as that. The resulting tsunami of stories tilted in Obama’s favor – and the media’s covering up of Obama’s short comings and bumblings – didn’t help Clinton in the slightest.
3. Personal Inadequacies. She’s simply not a very good candidate. She has a pretty thin resume; her few ventures into public policy (e.g., the health-care initiative) have been diastrous. In terms of public presentation, her persona is abrasive, at least on television, and her speaking voice is shrill and grating. The fact is, if she weren’t married to Bill Clinton, at best she’d be a litigator at a second rate law firm in a third-rate state capitol. Sorry, but that’s the truth.
As for all those votes, there are quite a few people out there – and I’m one of them – who voted for her not because we thought she’d be a good president, but because we think Obama would be worse. Which I still think. If she were running against a responsible figure in the Democratic party – say, Al Gore or Joe Lieberman – she’d still lose, but by an even bigger margin.
Just my $0.02 worth.
