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Who are Hillary's rabid supporters?
Women who were the first feminists. They are now very indignant that women aren't all that interested in "having it all". The very idea that some women "who are well educated, and have the advantages that WE fought for are electing stay home and "just" be mothers". The very idea. Stay home and bake cookies. Stand by your man.
These are hardly a large voting block, but they have loud voices. Still. And these nice ladies are also the ones who elected Richard Nixon in 1968, by either not voting, or casting a "protest vote". Which they have, to a large extent been doing ever since. Which is how we got Clarence Thomas, et cetera on the supreme court. You see, they "have principles". But damn little common sense.
"Hillary can beat McCain". Yeah, and I will wake up in the morning gorgeous and 25, with a sunny disposition.
Comments (6)
My mother did not vote for Nixon in 1968. That's a complete canard. She is a Hillary supporter and I (and my siblings) support Obama.
In my mother's view, she's not voting for Hillary because she's a woman -- it's other people who won't vote for Hillary because she's a woman, or at least a woman who put her husband first. So did my mom and it grates like nothing to be told that she isn't smart or good enough as a result.
Please let's appeal to all voters and not demonize any specific class of voters.
March 10, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have sympathy for both oldbag's (boy, it's hard to use that screen name!) and your points.
Your post could very well describe my own mother; and yet, I think it's a shame that their wounds have lead to some irrational thinking. While I'm sympathetic, it bothers me to see some feminists being stuck viewing this election through a grudge-tinted lens.
March 10, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
My mother would say that Hillary Clinton is just as qualified as Barack Obama, and therefore, she is not being irrational!
So while I might say that Hillary has jumped to the head of the pack because of her association with her husband, my mother would say, it's wrong to hold that against her -- it's not her fault that she married a remarkable man and it shouldn't stand in her way.
What my mom might agree with is that it's not right for Hillary to ascribe to herself her husband's experience -- she should stick with her own. It would also probably make my mother's skin crawl to see Hillary Clinton cozying up to McCain. My mother is seriously partisan.
But I admire Obama for having the decency and plain old common sense not to demonize voters who vote for someone else.
March 10, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the most narrow-minded post I've ever read. I'm flabbergasted at how you have boiled down a candidate's support to these stereotyped views of women from a particular generation.
March 10, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
NY Gov. Spitzer
March 10, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
This person thinks the "first feminists" are still alive and voting. Another one of those who think all weather originates in their backyard and all history occurs in their lifetime.
March 10, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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