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nolawarlock

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3. I have a different perspective on this...
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 09:55 PM
Mar 2020

I think Hillary has now proven herself to be an even more spectacular candidate, not the failure folks keep trying to paint her as.

Prior to Hillary, we had, what? Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro as VP picks. There was nothing to compare Hillary to. Now there is: four female candidates who did so abysmally that you have to chock at least some of it up to sexism. So now, look at Hillary. She surmounted SO much sexism and anti-Clinton apocrypha to get where she got, which is further than any other woman who made the attempt—as proven by this year. So I don't buy that she did badly. I think sexism may have hurt her but she still got 3 million more votes than Trump.

I think we have to look at Hillary through the lens of this election. We never had other female candidates to compare her trajectory to before. Now we do and they all sucked wind compared to her and some of them were really great candidates so you have to wonder just how much sexism Hillary actually surpassed.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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One thing proven tonight [View all] mcar Mar 2020 OP
Can't argue with that. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #1
I had to stop thinking about it mcar Mar 2020 #2
I have a different perspective on this... nolawarlock Mar 2020 #3
Very good points. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #5
But she sure came close! nolawarlock Mar 2020 #7
Yeah, ridiculously close. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #8
Oh my God you are so right. If it starts toward Biden we need to fight it with everything Maraya1969 Mar 2020 #4
+1 MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #6
This! mcar Mar 2020 #9
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