>Z, I need to be candid.......you speak like you know how this election is going to play out and what I am trying to tell you is that you don't know.
Well, I can look at the polling and voting trends and make projections. I can also look at the past versus now and see that McCain's ratings, which were not good when he was the front-runner earlier last year, improved considerably when he was out of the picture, while the other Reps who were ahead of him had low ratings, and make an educated guess that once America sees him again on a regular basis, they won't like him. I also know that the Republicans really hate him and that a lot of the base would rather a Dem win than have McCain as President.
You can make projections......a number of politicos have tried. Most have been wrong. This is a very different presidential election from the ones I have known before. You may end up being right but I wouldn't bet the bank.
All we can go by is what's happening today.
That is so not true.
Well, we have different realities.
And today, Clinton is the lesser candidate in a match up with McCain.
By a couple of points nine months out.
And I suspect she will be the lesser candidate the closer we get to the conventions. The only real thing Hillary has had going for her is name recognition. Its been show over and over again that when there is a less abrasive/better alternative, people will move away from her. Frankly, I never understood how she won in NY state.
Well then, why isn't she appealing to men?
Because she's a strong woman.
Oprah is a strong woman and men are not threatened by her. I know lots of strong women who are not threatening.
Men are 50% of this country; they deserve a candidate with whom they can identify
They're 50% of this country and 100% of the Presidents.
I see.....good or bad.....its time for a woman. Sorry, I don't follow that line of thinking. Strangely enough, some women I am close to feel the same way.
But what does it say that the two men she holds dear you consider "scumbags"?
That she's conducting her campaign as a business. They're career operatives. And I'm sure they're not the only two men high up on her campaign. The point is that they're the only two people high on her campaign that I know by name, and they're men, not women.
Again, we have different values. I am not impressed with someone conducting her campaign as a business. In fact, its "the business as usual" that's hurting her odds.
Its important only what it says about her. I sense a lot of anger in her and suspect it comes at least in part from her bad marriage.
I sense anger in Edwards, too. I sense anger in me, as well. After the shit she's been through and after the shit the country has gone through, we'd better be angry, and I don't mind having an angry candidate.
Z, I want my candidate to be angry about the right things, not things related to her personal life. |
