It is long past time for a woman to lead this country. [View all]

[Stinky The Clown]

It took the crazies 25 years of CONSTANT work and interference from a foreign power to defeat a woman who won the popular vote by 3 million.

For more reasons than we can count, women have demonstrated time and again their strength, resolve, intelligence, composure, command of facts, tenacity, and so many other admirable traits.

We watched HRC own the Benghazi committee. Today we watched Sally Yates own the Senate subcommittee.

But we watch less famous women - ordinary women, if you will - day in and day out demonstrate these same traits. A single mom doing what it takes to raise her kids. A woman bearing the burden of caring for aging parents or a failing husband. A woman doing more than the job requires to keep up with men doing the same job. Women working for three quarters of the wages men earn for the same job.

In so many, many ways, we watch women not just get by, but excel. Over and over. Time and again. Often against adversity.

I will be forever grateful to HRC, who I supported fully and enthusiastically, and whose loss I found devastating, for demonstrating so very clearly a woman CAN be president of the United States. While I wish it were her, it isn't. But we owe her much for showing the way.

At 70 years old, her time, sadly, has passed. Our country is the poorer for that. I am heartened, however, at the presence of the now uncarried mantle she left us as a legacy or HER life's work.

It is time for a woman to take up that mantle. It is time for a woman to build an organization. It is time for a woman to take the stage, to fill the spotlight, to LEAD US.

I am far from ready to make my own choice of who to support, but I can assure you it will be a woman. If pressed today, I'd have to say it is Amy Klobuchar. But it is too early to make that choice. There are other women, many of whom we know, but quite possibly some we have yet to meet. There is Tammy Baldwin and there is Tammy Duckworth. Can't forget Kristin Gilibrand. Kamala Harris. Maggie Hassan, Gina Raimondo, and Kate Brown (openly gay, by the way) come quickly to mind. How about Hilda Solis or Donna Edwards?

Who else? Who DON'T we know but should?

I suppose this could be considered identity politics. I actually think it is sound thinking. Women, generally, have traits that men lack or can get by without exercising. What we have been doing isn't working all that well anymore.

I'm ready for such a change.