Vanity Fair joins in the effort to silence the Democratic base

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88. No, you do not have the right "to have other females quit" anything

Your rights begin and end with yourself. You don't own or control me, and you have absolutely no right to get me to do a damn thing.

She has given one media interview in seven months. That is hardly being plastered on the media every day. She has never been the kind of politician who lives for the cameras. There are others who fill that role. Now you could easily avoid her one interview or commencement addresses, just as you could could avoid reading my post, but that isn't sufficient for someone who feels compelled to "get other females" to do what they demand. You feel entitled to control public discourse itself. Rather than simply turning the channel or even turning the damn TV off, you feel compelled to ensure that no one anywhere is allowed to read or access information that doesn't conform to your narrow concerns.

You disagree with me, and I disagree with you. Most reasonable people understand that disagreements are the nature of politics. They don't feel compelled to 'get females" do so what they demand. But then most people don't get upset because a former presidential candidate leaves the house rather than remaining locked in a cellar for time immemorial. Well, we shouldn't really say former presidential candidate, should we, since I'm going to hazard a guess that your problem with former candidates doesn't extend to John Kerry or Al Gore. Just a wild guess.

Spare me your trite bumper stickers about "triangulation." Talk about a non-sequitur.
Hillary Clinton is not 'the Clinton's." She is an intelligent, enormously talented woman who is not a mere appendage of a her husband. 67 people voted for her. Many of that 67 million is interested in what she has to say, the same of which cannot be said about you or me. Now she has chosen to use her position to work to straighten the Democratic party by forming a PAC to support other candidates seeking to lead it forward. There is no logical reason anyone who wants to see Democrats succeed should object to such a thing.

You are more than within your rights to continue to devote your life to working to banish Hillary Clinton from public space and trying to ensure the only losing candidates allowed to speak in public devote themselves to attacking and undermining the party rather than working to improve its electoral prospects. Do exactly what you please, and I intend to do and think what I please. You will no more "get me" to do anything than I will ever arrive at the point where I find your bumper sticker political wisdom remotely interesting or relevant.