Hillary Clinton Supporters Ask: ‘How’d She Lose to This Guy?’
Let me start, Ms. Marsh by saying that I agree with you that today may have been Sen. Clinton’s finest hour, good enough to start bringing together the coalition we need to win in November. But since you are not completely putting it behind you, and on this of all days are writing postmortums referring the the hopefully next President as “this guy” I will respond in kind. Here are your words:
“Hillary and her team decided you couldn’t win the general election being against a war. That went double if you were a woman. …the core belief was that a woman voting against a war to oust Saddam, especially so soon after 9/11, would not be considered tough enough for commander-in-chief. It crippled her campaign from the start.”
Hillary’s vote enabled Bush to send thousands of American men and women into harms way, to ensnare us in an endless war that would drain our resources for years to come. If you’re saying that vote was motivated by the knowledge that a woman could not vote against a war and still be considered tough enough to be President, than I would say there is your election right there. If she voted against her better judgement and her conscience to position herself for the Presidency then she does not deserve to be President now or ever.
Then she made decision to run the kind of campaign she did these last two months, appealing to our basest instincts in order to save an nomination that was already all but lost, even though this style of campaigning (what some call finding her voice) will inevitably hurt the eventual nominee. That tells me she her selfishness is still running rampant years after that first fatal mistake.
I want a President who is ready on Day One to do the right thing… for America, and not just for her. I want a President who is ready on Day One to surround herself with people who will help her run an effective debt-free campaign that makes me feel inspired to vote for her, not afraid to vote for “this guy.”
Hidden within this list of excuses you’ve authored is every reason why Hillary did not win and also, every reason why that’s a good thing.
