Posted on 06/23/2008 10:10:11 AM PDT by FreeManDC
The postmortems are rolling in to explain the long-drawn-out and spectacular failure of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-promising presidential campaign. She and her supporters are sure they know how and why she was rejected: She was the victim of sexism.
Feminist ideology teaches that American women are victims of an oppressive patriarchal society. No matter how rich or prominent or smart or advantaged a woman might be, success and happiness are still beyond her grasp because institutional sexism holds her down.
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem opined on CNN that it is "clear that there is profound sexism." She whined that Clinton couldn't crack the "glass ceiling" (an architectural figment of feminist imagination) because there are "still barriers and biases out there."
Oh, the unfairness of it all! Steinem bemoaned that women find it so "difficult to be competent and successful and be liked." Au contraire, women are not disliked because they are competent and successful, but because they are chip-on-the-shoulder feminists.
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Feminists live in an unhappy world of their own making. In truth, 92 percent of Americans say they would vote in a presidential election for a qualified female candidate from their own party, and 55 percent say yes when asked if the United States is ready for a woman president.
Clinton lost because she simply is not likeable and voters, especially Democrats, suffer from Clinton fatigue. The Clintons, Hillary and Bill, offer of two-for-the-price-of-one didn't play particularly well in 1992, and it was even less attractive in 2008.
The bad attitude of victimhood is indoctrinated in students by bitter feminist faculty in university women's studies courses and even in some law schools. Victimhood is nurtured and exaggerated by feminist organizations using a tactic they call "consciousness raising," i.e., retelling horror stories about how badly some women have been treated until little personal annoyances grow into grievances against society.
Consider how Katie Couric of CBS Evening News, a woman promoted and paid above her suitability for the job, solemnly promotes feminist mythology about discrimination against women. She breathlessly reported that "90 percent of teen girls say they have been harassed at least once."
And what does this "harassment" consist of? "Unwanted romantic attention, demeaning gender-related comments based on their appearance, and unwanted physical contact."
Where did the authors of this nonsense find females to claim that lighthearted banter at which no boy would take offense can now be defined as sexual harassment? Predictably, "girls who had a better understanding of feminism ... were more likely to recognize sexual harassment."
This silly report came from feminists who believe there are no differences between males and females, and that anyone who suggests otherwise should be cast into exterior darkness. Remember Harvard's former president, Larry Summers.
Another reason Clinton lost was that people resented her sense of entitlement. She believed that the presidency was hers, and that all the people whom the Clintons had appointed or helped, like New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, should fall in line.
Clinton kept repeating that she was the candidate most ready (on Day 1) to be America's CEO and commander-in-chief. That's hard to believe when she couldn't run her own campaign staff.
The New York Times reported that her employees, working with a "war room mentality," "hurled expletives at one another, stormed out of meetings and schemed to get one another fired." They engaged in "profanity-laden shouting matches" and used unprintable expletives.
Clinton promotes victimhood on her Web site by touting the long-discredited falsehood that women are paid "only 77 cents for every dollar men earn" and the worry that there might be any restriction on abortion. She is still pushing the Equal Rights Amendment even though it was rejected after 10 years of national debate; the Supreme Court declared it dead in 1982.
Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, is another feminist who, despite her bloated salary from a Chicago hospital, oozes the aura of victimhood. Although she was privileged to attend Princeton University, she wrote that she felt "as if I really don't belong."
Clinton's allies blame the national news media for unfairly terminating her campaign because they are "suffering from sexism" and "Obama mania." Ellen Malcolm of Emily's List and Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood emoted for an hour on C-SPAN about how sexism spoiled Clinton's chances.
Contrary to the image Clinton has carefully cultivated, she is not a self-made woman like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or for former Prime Minister of England Margaret Thatcher. Clinton got her career the old-fashioned way; she married it.
It was black racism.
She's got more balls than Obama, so I disagree.
“Reverse” sexism is what put her candidacy into play in the first place.
Great song for Hillary for after she speaks at the DNC this summer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChrSo9Dw90s
Of course, Obama would love the fascist marching in the video.
And here is the most hated woman in the Obama lemming brigade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s
Please forward her to all your friends.
But hey, if the feminazis want to sit this election out because their harridan didn't get the nomination, that's OK by me.
What a bunch of crap. The reason Clinton lost is because she had a flawed campaign strategy that bet all her chips on the February 5th Super Tuesday and she didn’t compete in the caucus states. If she had competed in all the caucus states with a sound ground strategy, she probably would have been able to split those votes which would have put her in the delegate lead. These stupid editorialists want to talk about positions on issues etc., etc., but the truth is it came down to a flawed state by state strategy.
I think she ruined the “gig” by dragging her horndog around with her and giving him too much airtime. :-)
no she lost because democrats want someone very liberal and Obama is more liberal than even hillary.
1. She sucked.
2. She sucks because she's a pathological liar as well as a harpie with a cackle from hell.
3. Real men would not vote for a harpie. Real women find Hildabeast inappropriate.
4. And, let's not forget the numerous pictures online of Hildabeast taking a drink... shouts unstable !!!
but feminists despise femininity
Don’t forget - to the MSM he’s still The Most Successful Politician Of Our Time (TM)
Her Royal Thunder-Thighs and Porciness should feel grateful for not being in prison serving time for accessory to murder, obstruction of justice, perjury, suborning perjury, grand theft, etc. She should take her whole family of sickos somewhere far away and never be heard from again.
Why isn’t she in prison? Thank you George Bush for such an ineffective and spineless Department of Justice. To have left these Arkansas grifters get away with these felonies is outrageous.
What a spectacular case of "projection!"
There is at least one alternative clear, simple and probable explanation: Her politics, her arrogance and her personality!
I can think of at least 4 deserving women from the past whom I would vote for in a heartbeat! Unfortunately, none of them are likely to be embraced and endorsed by the "progressive socialists."
She and her supporters can delude themsleves and play the victim card all they want, but they will only look more pathetic, and clearly as the whining opportunists that they are.
Most mentally healthy adults of all political parties intuitively know that the "progressive" party was hijacked by the radical mindless anarchists wing a while back, and want no part of the illusion that they can act as adults once in power.
You can put lipstick on a pig, command it to be in its best behavior, but it's still a pig.
To mix metaphors, "lie down with stray dogs and wake up with..."
I really don’t think it was a case of sexism that brought Hillary down - I think it was her lies during the campaign, and her inability to strike back at the “Obamessiah”. I think some of the things that came to light about the Clintons past dealings also played a part. I remember seeing the reaction from some at DU - “Was she really this bad? I guess they [Republicans] were right after all!”...
I think racism also played a part. Obama was touted as a savior - a way to destroy racism - and the younger college aged kids fell for all of it... He’s also supported by idealistic college-age students who are absolutely brainwashed by the universities into thinking socialism/communism would actually work! Evidenced by all the Che T-Shirts you can see on kids - it’s the “hip” thing to “be”. Of course, half of them probably don’t have a clue about what they’re really supporting.
Perhaps scarier than that - in the Democrat party - they are surrounded by people who praise Chavez and such. Almost like “handlers” in a way... It’s scary on DU when a Chavez thread comes up - 80% cheered his shutting down the free press. A few brave souls spoke up about it, but they were all shouted down...
When one brings up marxism they get a look on their face like you’re crazy... They can’t recognize the clear signs about Obama, and they think everything that is thrown against him is made-up.
So, no, I don’t think Hillary was done in by sexism... It was more like running against someone who was “anointed” by the party and the media - I don’t think she had much of a chance, really. And what small chance she had she destroyed with her lies during the campaign (snipers in Bosnia). She made a good showing in light of everything aligning against her.
This is SO true... You can’t even reason with most of their activists. They won’t listen to even a calm conversation, and dismiss others as “kooks”, or worse, if you don’t agree with their socialist plans...
Trying to talk to some college-aged dems a few years back at Univ. of Colorado-Boulder was a totally lost cause. They didn’t even seem to understand that the government got their money from taxpayers! [They were all touting some “Free College Ed for All” issue].
I can’t remember how we got on this subject in our little “debate”, but... These kids also couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t WANT the Government to take care of them - like they were telling me if my husband died the government would support my whole family. They couldn’t understand that I wouldn’t WANT that to happen, and that if our taxes were less I probably could invest more, and not NEED any help, God forbid that ever happens... They were absolutely clueless and thought the government could solve ALL our problems if they just gave out enough money.
Hillary was NEVER going to win. Those that say otherwise are daft. Fifty percent of the world despises the Clinton’s and her in particular. Her Ego hurt her more than anything. She really thought it was all hers for the taking. After all, she put up with Bill, and got herself in the senate for her long suffering and should have been given the Presidency, right?
LOL
“no she lost because democrats want someone very liberal and Obama is more liberal than even hillary.”
I agree with you
In the Democrat's Political Correctness hierarchy, the color of a person's skin trumps another person's gender.
The content of their character comes in at 137th or so on the hierarchy.
I once worked with a lady who said to me “the government SHOULD pay for it. They have more money than we do”.
I was so speechless I didn’t know what to say in the face of such ignorance. And they’re everywhere.
Hillary was the victim of “bitch-ism”
I thought her reptilian personality might have hurt her. Some people don’t like that.
I don't think she's dead yet.
Seeing how frightening barry Hussein obama is, this may be good.
(Who in the HELL ever thought I'd say THAT??????????????)
She could have won had ther straagists been able to wage a 50 state campaign. Remember, we are talking about the DEMOCRAT primary and NOT 50% of the world or the U.S. Hillary’s campaign blew it by having no caucus strategy in the red states.
It is still all BS to me.
No, I don’t think she ever had a chance from the beginning and she made it worse with her campaign. There are just too many people who hate her and hate Bill more.
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