Hillary argues against her own electability

In and effort to pit White women against Blacks, Hillary has taken to arguing that she is the victim of rampant sexism and mysogyny and, according to her, its a much worse problem than racism. So people should pity her, of course, because she's has a much harder struggle winning this contest because of her gender than Obama does because of his race. She's not losing because she mispent her money early on and failed to plan for post-Super Tuesday contests. Oh no, its because of those mean boys in the media who just won't give her a fair shake. Never mind that the media has propped up her candidacy for the last 3 months on the lie that she could still win even though anyone who could count (and was honest) knew it was over in February.

see excerpt below:


Q. Do you think this has been a particularly racist campaign?

A. I do not. I think this has been a positive, civil campaign. I think that both gender and race have been obviously a part of it because of who we are and every poll I've seen show more people would be reluctant to vote for a woman to vote for an African American, which rarely gets reported on either. The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable or at least more accepted. And I think there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when and if it ever raises its ugly head. But it does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by comments and reactions of people who are nothing but misogynists.

Q. Isn't that how it's always been though.

A. Oppression of women and discrimination against women is universal. You can go to places in the world where there are no racial distinctions except everyone is joined together in their oppression of women. The treatment of women is the single biggest problem we have politically and socially in the world. If you look at the extremism and the fundamentalism, it is all about controlling women, at it's base. The idea that we would have a presidential campaign in which so much of what has occurred that has been very sexist would be just shrugged off I think is a very unfortunate commentary about the lack of seriousness that should be applied to any kind of discrimination or prejudice. I have spent my entire life trying to stand up for civil rights and women's rights and human rights and I abhor
wherever it is discrimination is present.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/full-transcript-of-hillar_b_102716.html


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Now, if these polls are accurate and the comments above are true, then doesn't that argue for the African American candidate being the more electable? If she can't win a Democratic Party nomination because she's a woman, won't it be an even bigger problem in the GE when you add voters (independents, Republicans) who do not necessarily have a history of supporting gender equity?

It's either one or the other. If she's the most electable between her and Barack Obama, then what she said above is bull. And if what she said is true, and the polling she mentioned supports that, then Obama can use her own complaints of unfairness as his argument for being the nominee. This is after all about who can win the general election, as she and her surrogates tell us so relentlessly. So the party has to nominate the AA candidate over the female candidate if we want to win, because Hillary herself said it has been and will be so much harder for her to win.

However, logic is not apparently part of the "Clinton game plan".