Posted on 05/10/2007 7:04:40 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
This week brought good news for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) — post-debate polls all suggest that she scored a significant victory in the first meeting of the Democratic candidates. For the moment, at least, she seems to have arrested Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) momentum and re-established a lead.
But the defeat of Segolene Royal in France at the hands of Nicolas Sarkozy may be a bad omen for the long-term health of her candidacy. Royal’s defeat was not primarily due to ideological issues. French President Jacques Chirac has long since worn out his welcome and Royal’s Socialist Party would, all other things being equal, have been in a position to exploit his unpopularity. But instead Sarkozy, like Chirac from the RPR Party, won the election. While Sarkozy has long been at loggerheads with his president, his victory cannot be attributed to party or ideology. Nor is it a latent manifestation of heretofore dormant love of the United States in the heart of the average Frenchman.
No, Royal lost because she was a woman.
And, as always, a woman does not lose an election because of overt sexism. In fact, when she commenced her run, Royal surged to a lead on the wings of a national rush of excitement at the prospect of a woman president. Just as with Hillary, her vote share among women was very high in the early going.
But it is an axiom of politics that women accumulate highly personal negatives at a faster rate — negatives that prove more long-lasting than those regarding male candidates. As I read Walter Isaacson’s magnificent biography of Albert Einstein, I find myself wondering if he could reduce this phenomenon to a mathematical formula.
When in doubt, they throw the gender-blame card?!?
i don’t care what the grounds of throwing her out are, i just want her gone. she is a communist with a taste for absolute power. any way to get her out is good by me.
So, the 60 year old “smartest woman in the world” is neck and neck with a one term ZERO, and she calls it a victory? Kind of defining victory down a bit, aren’t we?
I don’t see a Democratic candidate that doesn’t need his meds. And a lot of Republican candidates are in the same boat.
Not arguing that poitn at all!
It just HAS to be her X-chromosome challenge, that’s the REAL reason she’s not in power, it just CAN’T be her failed ideology, let ALONE the will of the voters, the stupid little sheep!
It was funny how HC and others were distancing her from Segolene when she lost.
If Sego had won, they would have been highlighting what they have in common.
They(MSM) do it here too. Always trying to find a reason to appease their sensibilities. Like our election in 2006, Dems won because of SCANDAL not the police action in Iraq!!.
Liberal = Loser^2
I wasn’t aware that Hill-de-pants was a woman, as I have not seen nor heard any evidence of that.
EXACTLY what I was thinking, Sarge.
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