Why I Support Hillary Clinton (show me where I am wrong)

[SheilaT]

68. As several others have already pointed out,

all women in this country are not going to step forward and vote for a woman candidate just because she's a woman. I was going to make a very sarcastic post and say yes, women always vote for other women and that's why we now have Senators Sharon Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Alison Grimes, and Governor Wendy Davis, but I didn't. However, you need to think about those women and the fact that they lost, before you say Hillary will be a winner because she'd be the first female President.

So please, get over the assumption that she is a total shoo-in to win. You need to understand how many conservative women are out there, how many deeply religious ones sincerely believe that women have no place in the public sphere, how many still vote as their husbands do, regardless of the privacy of the ballot box.

And this entire email thing is just the beginning. I've been saying for a year or more now that the Hillary supporters simply have no clue about how widely disliked she is outside of a rather fervent core of supporters, many of whom post here at DU. Look, I'm NOT trashing your support of her, but I am pointing out that she is far, far from bullet-proof or automatically electable. I've been saying that if she gets the nomination, what the other side will do to her will make the entire swift-boating of John Kerry look like a love-fest.

Added on edit: You are not wrong to support Hillary Clinton. Where you are wrong is that you assume she's automatically the winner of the general election simply because of her gender.