I’m not just voting for her because she’s a woman, but it doesn’t hurt. I also think she’s the best qualified candidate.

But I admit that if I thought she were say a little less qualified than a male opponent then I would probably still vote for her because she was a woman.

I’m not stupid, either. If she was way less qualified, some trumped up grandstander running to make a point – then I wouldn’t vote for her. If I hated her politics I wouldn’t vote for her.

Go Hillary!

Never willing to settle for baby-steps, that’s when Stanton lost the cause she had fought for her entire adult life. Unfortunately.

Clearly in the case of presidential politics ‘08, (”a woman, a black man and a hispanic”), Clinton’s first-gentleman, former President Clinton, is using his considerable influence to see that this does not happen again. At least *not* in the case of *his* first-lady.

“You’ve come a long way baby!”

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Poor, poor Andrew Sullivan. Hillary Clinton’s bossy screechiness drives him wild.She grates on me more with every minute I have to listen to her. And that whole passive-aggressive crap about throwing mud and Republican talking points drove me once aga…

Just discovered your excellent site. You are right about politics in the real world. In a previous incarnation I was a political manager (for a man I helped elect Governor of our state) and power has to be seized. No one surrenders without a fight.

I admired Bill clinton’s ability to throw a punch. Hillary can throw one two. That said, I was not a big fan of those two. I will vote for her if she’s the nominee, but I am inclined to go for Chris Dodd right now.

If a blog I read said they were voting for Mr. Obama simply because he was black, I would comment that I felt that was a simplistic view even though I support him.

I hope that I have gotten where I am at in my life because of my intellegence and talent.

I pray that if Ms. Clinton becomes the next President it is because of her brains and not her XX status.

Have you noticed that people jump all over the whole “why shouldn’t women vote for Hilary just because she’s a woman?” thought process but then no one says anything when African-Americans say they are voting for Obama simply because “it’s time there was an African-American candidate.”

absolutely not.

but i don’t think you get where you want to go by pointing yourself in the wrong direction.

for myself, i will not allow myself to stoop to voting at the same level as those who vote for someone just because they have a penis. i feel it demeans my vote, demeans me.

i admit to being a starry-eyed idealist hell, i voted for Nader!

I do believe in idealism. Plenty of my beliefs are idealistic to the point that people make fun of me. But in politics, I’m a realist.