Are You a Woman or a "Person", Hillary?

Hillary Clinton, awaiting a decision from the FBI on whether or not to recommend that she be indicted for carelessly putting classified material all over the Internet, is a woman, at least this month.  She seems to want to identify that way, giving out "woman cards" at her events to sycophants who want to be able to "play the woman card" in defense of her.

All this makes us wonder whom she feels is a legitimate candidate to be given one of those cards.  No, I don't mean the stupid piece of plastic or cardboard or whatever they're made of.  I mean that, if push came to shove, how she would define what a "woman" actually is.

We're probably all pretty tired of the recent battles between the Obama administration and common sense as far as the whole bathroom dust-up.  The Obamistas and the State of North Carolina are busy suing each over about it, and now the State of Texas is heading to court to protect Federal funds for school lunch programs from being withheld, because the state wants boys to go to boys' locker rooms and girls to girls' rooms.

Never mind ISIS on our doorstep, no one working, $20 trillion in debt and a porous border flooding the USA with competitors for the few unskilled jobs out there.  Our president has to worry about gender identity.

But Hillary is overtly on the side of the White House in this nonsense, having come out firmly against North Carolina in the school bathroom law in a recent debate.  Now, I don't know how she actually feels about the issue.  I suppose that she is probably disgusted with Obama for forcing her to have to make a stand on an issue she doesn't agree with.  Hardly anyone does agree with Obama on it, so there's no reason to think Hillary does.

Where this all comes to a big problem for her is that it puts her essentially on both sides -- or neither side -- of the same issue, namely, that either being female is important or it is not.  Being genetically female is vitally important to Hillary Clinton.  If she were a man, she would never have sniffed the White House in the first place, never have been a carpetbag U.S. senator from New York, never have been able to screw up as Secretary of State and certainly not ever be running for president now.

Because she has to be stuck on the "you're whatever gender you want to be" side of the issue, she can only make so much capital of her femaleness.  It is awfully difficult for her to say that being female is so flexible that any male can wake up in the morning and decide that he is a "she", and then try to argue that her being (genetically) female is in any way important.  I mean, if it's something you can decide on for yourself, it can't be so big a deal that it should cause anyone to vote for her.

On top of that, it is hard to play the victim card in the women's deck when she was quite responsible for the personal destruction of a series of her husband's bimbettes, as well as those like Juanita Broaddrick who were raped by her husband.  The published material out there on cases like those make it very tough for her to play, well, any of those cards.

Hillary has a host of problems.  Women don't really care for her much more than they care for Donald Trump.  It's going to be a real challenge to get them to come out and actually vote for her.  Men give her terrible ratings and they're not going to rush to the polls for her either.

But when all you have going for you is that you are genetically female, and Obama's actions have forced her to take stands that essentially devalue the worth of being female, you're in a heap of trouble.  I'd love for an inquisitive press to follow up on the divergence of those paths, but that isn't going to happen.

But voters, even subconsciously, are going to make that connection.  And it is simply not going to help her get votes in November.

If, of course, she is not in prison by then.

Copyright 2016 by Robert Sutton
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