"Suffice, then, to make this highly relevant political point: There is more at work in the minds of women regarding Hillary's candidacy than the average white guy can begin to understand. Hillary and her campaign know that, which would explain the tactical playing of the gender card. This was a raw calculation that the connection to woman would exceed the transparent hypocrisy.
That this didn't apply to, say, Elizabeth Dole, is a simple reflection that Dole wasn't a serious candidate. Women lean Democratic and take more seriously one who runs on their side -- and who has much more than the snowball's chance Dole had.
Finally, plaudits to Hillary for playing the gender card herself without actually playing it. She said they piled on her not because she was a woman, but because she was winning. She said Harry Truman said to get out of the kitchen if you can't stand the heat. She said that, luckily, she'd spent a lot of time in the kitchen.
She distanced herself from a point even as she made it. How positively Clintonian."
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