Posted on 02/15/2018 7:04:56 AM PST by simpson96
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the “macho atmosphere” of the 2016 campaign is what doomed Hillary Clinton. A more reasonable argument is that Mrs. Clinton wasn’t macho enough to make it to the White House.
At a Columbia University Women’s Conference event on Sunday, Justice Ginsburg was asked again about the 2016 election, to which she opined, according to Fox News Insider, ”‘I think it was difficult for Hillary Clinton to get by even the macho atmosphere prevailing during that campaign, and she was criticized in a way I think no man would have been criticized,’ Justice Ginsburg said. ‘I think anyone who watched that campaign unfold would answer it the same way I did: Yes, sexism played a prominent part,’ she continued.”
Mrs. Clinton wasn’t the only loser of the 2016 season. Does Justice Ginsburg think former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are all casualties of machismo? Perhaps their own lack of it. When voters looked at the world, we wisely decided against sending anyone who needed a safe space, face-planted into a van, or was low-energy, into the vipers’ pit of the world.
Political campaigns are about getting to know the candidates, but more than that, we find out in those environments who can handle the heat, and who can’t. If Justice Ginsburg’s wronged Hillary Clinton (or anyone else, for that matter) couldn’t handle an unconventional, swaggering and confident American billionaire, how could she handle the world itself?
Americans decided she couldn’t. And not because of machismo, but because she doesn’t have the fortitude to face all that the world throws at the American president. The fact that we can’t ask the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens about Mrs. Clinton’s ability to handle
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
There was no macho in last year’s election. Quite the opposite. A lot of hysterical, a lot reality TV girliness.
Macho Macho Maaaaaaan.
I gotta be a Macho maaaaan.
The “Hillary Victim Thing”... if you can’t win within the rules, demand they be changed (see FBI for examples). Kinda like “we ain’t got no sluggers on our team, so we demand home runs be outlawed... or you’re a bigot!”
Excuse #72 why Hillary lost.......LOL
> Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the “macho atmosphere” of the 2016 campaign is what doomed Hillary Clinton. <
Let’s all give Justice Ginsburg a break! After all, she said the same thing to explain why liberals don’t like Sarah Palin.
Oh, wait. Justice Ginsburg kept quiet when the liberals made fun of Palin. Never mind.
💤
There was a lot of macho stuff going on in her campaign. Especially when the big macho guy had to pick her up and throw her in to the Scooby van when she couldn’t handle being out in 75 degree heat on a cloudy day.
No man would be criticized when running for President? I think of her as not so bright, but I have to think there is some context missing...could she really be that stupid?
How d’ya like that....Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a “true believer.”
Some people naively believe Bill Clinton lying under oath while in office is a scandal. It isn’t. Not even a jurist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks its a scandal.It’s part of the Democrats’ Creed.
This is what Justice Ginzburg truly believes (hat tip Michael Kelly).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes President Bill Clinton and has always believed him. She believed him when he said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him when he said he had “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Ginzburg believed him when he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when he reportedly says he did.
Ginzburg believes the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
She believes that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
The S/C Justice believes President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans. She believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Ginzburg believes Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. She believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Ginzburg believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46. She believes in no controlling legal authority.
Justice Ginzburg believes Bruce Babbitt when he says that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license and believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
She believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. and agree with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Justice Ginzburg believes in the Clinton Standard of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”
She noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely” and believe that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the sole reason.
Jurice Ginzburg believes Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history and believe that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $ 35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses. She believes that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $ 250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
She believes that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Ginzburg believes Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it. That Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it and Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Justice Ginzburg believes Lewinsky was fantasizing in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship.
She believes that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship; such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Ginzburg sees nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $ 40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president. Nor does she read anything into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
As an accomplished jurist, Justice Ginzburg believes the instructions Lewinsky gave Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Ginzburg believes as Hillary does that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
This senile old bat sits in the highest “justice” organization in this country, yet she IGNORES every corrupt and illegal thing the Beast of Benghazi has done in her lifetime. Do the laws not apply in this case, Miz Ginsberg?
Hitlery F. Clinton lost for 3 reasons:
1. The average sane person knows she’s a crook.
2. She sat on her fat cankle supported arse practically her entire campaign in the arrogant belief she would easily win, while Trump was out there every single day campaigning like nobody before him - giving countless no question off limit interviews a day, holding multiple rallies, seeming to never sleep, it was incredible.
3. Besides having the personality of a potato, what has she ever done? What was her message? She had none. The only message we got from her is “Vote for me because I have a vagina and it’s my turn”
AND to this day, she STILL will not take responsibility for losing.
Hillary keeps cycling through the list but going nowhere, like a plump hamster on an exercise wheel. Each of the following came from Hillary, from one of her drones, or from a pro-Hillary article. I am not creative enough to have made these up:
98. Hillary’s inability to get by the macho atmosphere dominating the election elected Trump.
97. Misogynist sexual predators in the media elected Trump.
96. Hillary being too honest elected Trump.
95. Russian journalists and bloggers posting controversial information and nearly $5,000 worth of ads elected Trump.
94. Requiring voter ID in Wisconsin elected Trump.
93. American voters finding her insufferable because of Hillary’s confidence in her own Christian virtues, which represent America’s exceptional virtue, elected Trump.
92. Hillary’s very bad luck elected Trump.
91. A culture of grievance, victimhood, and scapegoating among hillbillies elected Trump.
90. Hillary’s beauty regime taking 600 hours away from the campaign elected Trump.
89. The press relentlessly beating Hillary up and obsessively focusing on her alleged faults elected Trump.
88. Debate questioners not asking the questions Hillary wanted elected Trump.
87. The Democrat Party having no data and no money for Hillary elected Trump.
86. TV executives failing to give Hillary enough airtime elected Trump.
85. Barack Obama failing to make a speech in favor of Hillary elected Trump.
84. Low information voters elected Trump.
73. The cultural, political, and economic game that’s being played to keep women in their place elected Trump.
82. White women voting against Hillary because their fathers, husbands, boyfriends, and male employers told them not to vote for “the girl” elected Trump.
81. Anthony Weiner, who brought the dumb story about Hillary’s dumb emails back into the news, elected Trump.
80. Matt Lauer and NBC launching a pointless ambush against Hillary and soft-peddling her opponent elected Trump.
79. An unfair election with secret reasons we may never know about elected Trump.
78. Hillary not being meaner and nastier elected Trump.
77. Sexism from Bernie Sanders and his voters elected Trump.
76. The American people not liking Hillary enough, without reason, elected Trump.
75. Innuendo and character attacks by Bernie Sanders elected Trump.
74. White identity politics from whites who felt threatened by black identity politics elected Trump.
73. Bernie Sanders voters not showing up elected Trump.
72. A bunch of black swans converging on Hillary in the final 12 days of the election elected Trump.
71. Wikileaks elected Trump.
70. Twitter memes elected Trump.
69. Astrological influences elected Trump.
68. Blatant sexism and unconscious sexism elected Trump.
67. People voting against Hillary because Obama is black elected Trump.
66. Traditionalist attitudes toward women elected Trump.
65. White voters afraid of losing White Privilege elected Trump.
64. Democrats doing a poor job of controlling the narrative elected Trump.
63. A thousand Russian agents working every day elected Trump.
62. Content farms in Macedonia elected Trump.
61. The TV networks keeping Hillary off the air elected Trump.
60. The vast right-wing conspiracy elected Trump.
59. Infowars elected Trump.
58. Google elected Trump.
57. Steve Bannon elected Trump.
56. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker elected Trump.
55. Nate Silver elected Trump.
54. Citizens United elected Trump.
53. The DNC being a mess and in poor shape elected Trump.
52. Bad polling numbers elected Trump.
51. Obama winning two terms elected Trump.
50. People wanting change elected Trump.
49. The New York Times, cable news, and television executives elected Trump.
48. According to Hillary, “Eight of the top 10 political documentaries on Netflix were screeds against President Obama and me” - Netflix elected Trump.
47. Democrats not making the right documentaries elected Trump.
46. The Democrat Party and the Republican Party elected Trump.
45. Concerns that Hillary Clinton was involved with a child sex trafficking operation elected Trump.
44. Concern about Hillary Clinton being a lizard elected Trump.
43. High expectations that Hillary would win elected Trump.
42. Voter suppression elected Trump.
41. FBI Director Comey announcing a criminal investigation into Hillary’s felonies just over a week before the election, when he had little reason to think there was anything there, elected Trump.
40. The Russians ransacking Hillary’s computer files and strategically leaking the truth elected Trump.
39. Misogyny elected Trump.
38. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.
37. Advocacy press on the right elected Trump.
36. Facebook elected Trump.
35. Old, out-of-touch democrats with a flawed message that alienated young voters elected Trump.
34. White nationalists elected Trump.
33. Hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?) elected Trump.
32. FBI investigation elected Trump.
31. Black voters not liking Hillary elected Trump.
30. Fewer than 100,000 deplorable voters spread across a handful of states elected Trump.
29. People hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us elected Trump.
28. The lack of energy among Hillary supporters and expectations of Hillary being the inevitable winner, because it was her turn, elected Trump.
27. Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states elected Trump.
26. Hillary’s campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls elected Trump.
25. Bill Clinton’s appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch elected Trump.
24. The ugly stew of racism elected Trump.
23. Hillary’s alleged lack of likability and claimed lack of trustworthiness elected Trump.
22. Self-hating women elected Trump.
21. Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives elected Trump.
20. Sinister outside forces elected Trump.
19. Whitelash elected Trump.
18. Democrat policies that favor the rich elected Trump.
17. Failure to talk to working-class white voters elected Trump.
16. Men elected Trump.
15. Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work) elected Trump.
14. Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.
13. White women elected Trump.
12. Racists elected Trump.
11. Sexists elected Trump.
10. Rural voters elected Trump.
9. The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.
8. Fake news elected Trump.
7. Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.
6. Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.
5. White male resentment elected Trump.
4. Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.
3. Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.
2. Reagan democrats elected Trump.
1. Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.
There are many terrible reasons for President Trump’s victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.
If Hillary can’t fight sexism, how is she going to fight America’s enemies?
Hillary didn’t lose, that’s what the left just can’t come to terms with.... She didn’t lose, she played probably the BEST PLAY she could have, she performed at the end of the day about as good as she could have....
She didn’t lose... TRUMP WON.... Period.
You can keep throwing out excuses all you like, and blame this or that.. but the simple reality was Obama was an unmitigated disaster, and she couldn’t run on his, or her own record, (At least not on them outside the lunatic rabid left) because they both were excrement as far as middle american was concerned.
So her only play was “Trump is the Anti-Christ”... That was the ONLY play she had, and she played it about as well as she could have... And it wasn’t enough, and was never going to be enough.
Going into election night, odds were NOT, and NEVER WERE in Hillary’s favor. Hillary didn’t lose.... TRUMP WON. Period.
Ginsburg should have to recuse herself from ruling on any case involving any issue related to any Trump action.
She also got caught cheating during the debate by getting the questions ahead of time... America does not like cheaters of any stripe.
At some point the left should accept that there are differences between “typical male” and “typical female”. Stop trying to campaign as “equal” and start campaigning based on the strengths the individual candidate brings to the race.
When they say “men and women are equal”, a lot of voters of any genitalia are probably going to pick Trump over Hillary in many “macho” areas (i.e. dealing with Putin) If the election message is based on gender equality, “machoism” is a consideration for voters (both genders should have it if they are equal, right?). If equality is not pushed, it’s ok for a female candidate to not be seen as “macho” and there may be other strengths they can campaign on that would help her deal with Putin.
And the left should immediately stop saying both
“men and women are the same”
and
“we need more women in office because women are better at ...”.
Which is it? Don’t demand a google employee be fired for saying women are more compassionate when you told me for 2 years that Hillary would be more compassionate because she’s a woman.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.