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A better question: Is the World Ready for Hillary Clinton?
Apparently, there are plenty of voters that think she’s ready. The delegate count is leaning in her favor at the moment. We’ll likely know who will be the nominee for both the Republicans and the Democrats in the first week in February. It won’t be official of course until the conventions. But that won’t stop the pundits, the media, and the candidates themselves from declaring victory.
In my opinion, Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate by riding on the coattails of her husband’s popular presidency. I’m also pretty sure she got a big sympathy vote just because so many people think she got the raw end of the deal while Monica Lewinsky was playing hide the sausage with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office bathroom. It doesn’t make her any more qualified for office, but it certainly helps bring out the women voters. She’s gotten a big boost to her campaign for that very reason.
Hillary Clinton’s fiery temper makes her a poor candidate for any political office. She displayed a small snippet of that in the latest debate in South Carolina. Barack Obama essentially claimed Hillary and her husband were going around lying about what he said some time ago regarding Ronald Reagan and his economic policies. Hillary immediately got angry and laid into him regarding his supposedly tainted campaign contributions coming from a previous law client and the clients Chicago slumlord real estate business.
I wonder how many people caught how upset she got. I don’t think an explosive temper goes along with being president.
Too bad Obama didn’t come back about all the tainted money Hillary had to return when it was made known. I give kudos to the media for exposing that by the way. Although they seem to favor her and still have a love affair with Bill Clinton, when the dirt got exposed, they wrote about it.
In order for Hillary Clinton to win the Presidency, she’ll need to overcome several steep obstacles. The first obstacle facing her is the Democratic nomination. If ever a political party in the US was ready to nominate a woman, the Democrats are looking like they might be willing.
Getting the nomination won’t be a cake walk. She cried her way to victory in New Hampshire. I saw an interview of a woman voter a couple weeks ago. She said it made her change her mind and she voted for Hillary. Why? Because when she saw Mrs. Clinton crying it made her seem more human and real than the other candidates. Hillary Clinton already won her Oscar this year.
It doesn’t matter which Republican ultimately runs against her, she’ll still have an uphill battle. I think when it comes right down to the actual act of voting inside the booth, there will still be a good number of Democrats that won’t be able to vote for her. It’s not that they don’t like her. I just think the fact that she’s a woman will hold enough folks back that she’ll have a very close race and maybe even lose.
I could be wrong. I’ve been known to be wrong a few times in my life. We’ll find out soon enough. This campaign is heating up and I’ll be watching with interest.
Let me know what you think. I’m hoping someone else will contradict me and give me some good reasons to believe the US is ready for a woman president. I guess I should ask my wife.
Just to be clear, I think Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney are the most qualified candidates for the job. Neither of them are really conservative enough for me but I’ll take either of them over any of the Democrats.
Too bad Joe Lieberman isn’t running. He’s probably the only Democrat I’d vote for. Not so much because I totally agree with his policies, but because he’s an honest and upright guy. He’s totally believable and that comes through loud and clean when you hear him interviewed. And he won’t scrimp on national security.
And none of them can hold a candle to Ron Paul when it comes down to the long term viability of the US economy. Ron Paul gets the economy. It’s just he’s not electable, at least not yet.