I have not forgotten how Stacy Abrams and AOC were admired up until the second they didn't do exactly what online activists wanted them to do
Some of the people talking up Gretchen Whitmer these days will turn against her if she does run for president
There are some on the left who voted for a woman for president before you all did. Jill Stein in 2012. 2016 as well! I look forwarding to doing so a third time this November.
Glad that you are the chief election decider who gets to determine what woman is qualified and competent in every election. Seems like you have good instincts.
I didn't withhold my vote from Hillary because she's a woman. I was never going to vote for her because of her right wing corruption, her racist 2008 campaign against Obama, her support for the Iraq war and the Patriot Act and pushing the destruction of Libya as SOS. She's a wretched person.
There were actually a couple of other folks on the ballot that year, among them Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.You have to remember that voting for a candidate is narrowly support for said candidate, not what ever you decide it might be because you can't handle people holding views different from you.
There were really good reasons to prefer Obama to Clinton in 2008, though I think she'd have performed better in office; Obama chickened out too often.
But 2016? I'm fine voting for a clown*, just not That Evil Clown.
*Wavy Gravy: "Nobody for President! Nobody's telling the truth!"
MAC: but a female leader? It's just...Doesn't sit well with me, like, un-American, maybe?
FRANK: It's un-American
DENNIS: Thing is, is like, we had a vote in America.
MAC: We almost had one
DENNIS: and then America was like, "Mm..."
FRANK: No women.
MAC: We could *not* have been more clear about it.
Overheard at a Bob Evans restaurant in Charleston, WV just before the 2008 primary election: "I might vote for a n****r for President, but I'm never going to vote for a woman." (I moved out of WV in December 2008, not exactly related but not wholly unrelated.)
