Posted on 06/05/2017 12:41:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Our system in our country is the most difficult political environment in the world of any democracy to elect a leader.”
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is hopeful that a woman from any background can run for the United States presidency in the near future. But that candidate needs to fully understand what she’s up against.
“You have to be prepared for what it means to literally be brutalized,” the former secretary of state said Thursday at BookExpo America in New York City, the publishing industry’s annual gathering. “It is unlike any experience she has ever had before. Our system in our country is the most difficult political environment in the world of any democracy to elect a leader.”
This woman might come from a background in politics, Clinton added, or could perhaps be a writer or a business executive.
She’s up for offering experience and advice but said she believes the future candidate needs to “find his or her own way.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Just who brutalized her? She was given softball questions, talked about Chai tea with sycophants, and if that wasn’t enough, was given debate questions in advance.
If the next female presidential nominee is a Republican she undoubtedly will be brutalized in the Media. See Sarah Palin.
> carrying the burden of the double standard
I’d bet that the next women to run WITHOUT trying to carry that burden will win. Women like Hillary see a weakness with themselves, and lack self-confidence, because they perceive a double standard everywhere. So they let it warp every other message. And they focus too much on an inequality problem most voters don’t see. They look weak on real problems because they make “being a woman” part of every issue. Repeatedly pointing out that “many people don’t think a woman can do the job” gets people wondering if this woman can do the job.
There will be plenty of men (and women) who won’t vote for that woman, and judge her different than the opposition (the double standard does exist). But she will win an even greater number of voters who pick a self-confident woman with real solutions in order to make history. She’ll win because she will focus on problems everyone sees and solutions she believes in rather than imaging gender problems in every issue and having solutions that don’t seem to fit the problem.
At least that’s how I see it from 30+ years of business experience. The women who see a double standard are hurt by it (or by their actions based on it). The women who compete as equals get treated as equals. The women who blame men when they miss a job/promotion, don’t often get the next one. The women who ask how they can improve their resume for the next promotion usually do it (improve their resume) better than men. There may be a double standard and I don’t see women having to do more than men - but the women who ignore it and focus on their abilities are the ones who succeed. I’d bet politics is the same.
After all, doesn’t everybody have a secret server somewhere?
Have they even considered the contrast with how a man like President Donald Trump was treated?
“Hillary Clinton To Next Female Presidential Candidate: Prepare to Be ‘Brutalized’”
yeah, hillary, like trump wasn’t brutalized and still being brutalized.
Are you trying to make the case that females are simply to fragile to take the heat?
+10 Prefect Lady.
The irony and hypocrisy is totally lost on them.
It might help if Justice gets all their ducks in a row and arrests this crooked maniac
Brutalized like all the victims the clintons have had killed?
I hope the Naaaasty Rat women thinking about running for POTUS will listen to Kankle’s advice; she is the smartest woman in the world, you know. :0)
It has been said that sociopaths are totally blind to their own faults.
Shut the heck up, woman. What a pathetic “role model.”
Only if the woman candidate is a Conservative,,,,,,,
"figuratively"
So she is saying prepare to be brutalized just like every male presidential candidate has been since General George Washington?
JoMa
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