Until this AM ....

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Right up until this AM I was confident that Hillary was on her way to becoming President.  I really wasn't even shaken by the Iowa results.  But this AM I came to the conclusion that she will not be elected President.

I came to this conclusion listening to morning sports talk radio.  If you really want to get the pulse of what the average person is thinking, listen to sports talk.  People care more about sports than any other topic.  And this morning I heard the giddiness and gloating in the voices as they discussed the prospect of a Hillary defeat.  I was stunned to hear it equally from women as well as men.  And then I realized that it isn't about it being Hillary, it is simply that in my lifetime a woman will never be elected President.

The reason isn't that people overtly think "oh a woman can't do this".  It is rather that we all look at the things that men and women do and we judge them differently based on their gender.

In response to that, I'm going to quote Chris Rock.

"America is ready for a white woman president, but does it have to be this white woman?"

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Name a single American female politician with "charisma".  They do not exist because we do not let them exist.  We always label them as too weak or too manly.  It's just how it is.

Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska

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Sarah Palin - An ex beauty queen whose national prominence is negligible  
Olympia Snowe - Dismissed within her own party
Janet Napolitano - Has all the charisma of Bill Richardson
Amy Klobuchar - So charismatic that only political wonks have heard of her
Condi Rice - Are you kidding me?  The Ice Queen

Stop fishing for reasons to explain off Clinton's expected loss as sexism.

If Obama gets stunned tonight are you going to come back here and say it's cause New Hampshire's racist?

And you're quick to dismiss Napolitano. Napolitano is the governor that has gone the furthest on getting a pragmatic solution to the border crisis.

I thought of another: Kay Bailey Hutchison. Elected from the second-largest state statewide multiple times.

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I'm not making this argument in a "defend Hillary" motive.  I actually want you guys to offer up a good argument.  I want you guys to convince me that I don't live in a country that automatically dismisses women because they are "too manly" or "too soft".

Palin, Snowe, Napolitano, Hutchison, Pelosi, Klobuchar, Rice, Dole, Granholm, etc.

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You lost all credibility as a political observer with that quote.