Different dynamic for female leaders outside the US; the impression I got from Shipley and Clarke here and from the Asian female PMs was that they had to show themselves to be twice as smart as their male peers to cement power (which for Clarke is difficult when your peer is Cullen - fortunately he’s loyal).

I’m wondering if this is relevant?

Well, she did gain much of her vaunted “experience” in corporate board rooms while Obama was cutting his teeth in Illinois state politics. Are we supposed to be surprised?

If the best people for the jobs don’t get elected because of unexamined misogyny, we deserve what we get. Well, I certainly agree with you there, Cara. The day that happens, I’ll supplicate the FSM right along with you.

My point is simply that that’s not what’s happening there. Other people’s unexamined misogyny aside, Hillary is not the best person for the job.

And on a pragmatic note, look, a flattened squirrel should be able to beat John McCain, all right? But if there’s any adversary that will see him squeak through to a win, it’s Hillary Clinton. And you better believe we’ll both be giving the FSM a piece of our minds the day that happens.

Holy. Shit.

Hilary Clinton is Microsoft.

Why? Because it assumes that any voter who does not vote for said candidate is doing so out of bias, not because a woman could possibly be treated equally and ever lose out. Telling me that I must be anti-woman because I’m a woman don’t pick your favored woman candidate is insulting to my feminist autonomy and intelligence.

If all Clinton’s staunchest supporters have to offer is name calling and insults toward people who might possibly vote for somebody else, then is their candidate truly the best one? I don’t think so. I don’t think that people are going to flock to candidates because their supporters hurl insults and belittling head pats. In fact, I think they are going to push people in the direction of candidates whose supporters are pushing the issues. Clinton either supports these dubious tactics of East Coast “With us or Against Us because You are Stupid” Clique politics or lacks sufficient leadership of her supporters to make it clear that such are offensive.