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[SheilaT]

39. The Hillary camp tends to brush away her loss to Obama

as if it's something quite trivial. But it's not. It's her only competitive campaign -- neither of her Senate races were. And she lost. She also ran a crappy campaign; I remember the stories that came out of it.

Another thing they, the Hillary people, don't get, is that while plenty of us would love to see a female President in our lifetimes, there is not such a vast yearning for one that nearly every Republican woman would cross over to vote for her. Au contraire. There are those out there who sincerely do not believe a woman belongs in public life, let alone a high office, that if anything they'd come out in large numbers to vote against her. Keep in mind, that if women will vote for a woman candidate just because of her gender, then we would have Governor Wendy Davis right now in Texas. And Senator Alison Lundergan Grimes of Tennessee.

What I keep on circling back to is how ill-informed and disingenuous is the notion the Hillary Is The Only One and therefore, everyone else needs to stay out of the race. If she wins a competitive primary, as I've said more than once, then great. But let it be a competitive primary.

My other honest fear is that if the two candidates in the end are Bush and Clinton, the anger and indifference out there will be so great against the two of them, that we may have an extremely low voter turnout. The corollary to that is that we do not need the same two families in the White House for a long time. No matter who those two families are.

I'm old enough to recall when Robert Kennedy was running for President, and the glee on the part of some and the fear on the part of others that we were headed to a Kennedy dynasty, with Kennedys occupying the WH well into the foreseeable future. That also would not have been a good thing.