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Hillary Clintons campaign unveiled its gender card on Monday night, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the gender card alone wont be enough to carry her to victory in the race for the White House.
I dont think arguing vote for me because Im a woman is enough, the Kentucky Republican said at an event in his home state on Monday, according to The Associated Press.
You may recall my election last year, McConnell said, referring to his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, whom he defeated by double digits in last Novembers election. The gender card alone is not enough.
The Senate majority leader really doesnt get it, Clinton responded in a Facebook question-and-answer session.
There is a gender card being played in this campaign, she added. Its played every time Republicans vote against giving women equal pay, deny families access to affordable child care or family leave, refuse to let women make decisions about their health or have access to free contraception. These arent just womens issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans.
Clintons campaign followed up the response with a tweet later in the evening, using the hashtag #gendercard.
If Sen. McConnell thinks fighting for women and families is playing the "gender card"okay. Here's our #gendercard: pic.twitter.com/mtSCvJWqAD
Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 21, 2015
read: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-campaign-2016-gender-card-mitch-mcconnell-120400.html
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)While this is witty, I also have zero problem with her playing the gender card as straight as could be. Women do not have equal representation. Some only like to make this distinction when it benefits them, their guy, or an injustice that makes their radar. Every single poster here recognized the absurd make-up of the Ferguson council and all positions of leadership there. Completely backwards representation. Yet talk about it in contrast with Hillary running for President and you will hear a lot of people say it isn't about gender, it is about electing the best person. Yet country wide women do not have equal representation. This topic is fair game.
kiri
(802 posts)Remember, Mitchy easily beat Alison Grimes in the Senate race.
Grimes was a terrible candidate, so stupid as to deny she voted for Obama. And so stupid as to hire her father to be her campaign manager.
Mitch is cunning, Grimes/dad were unprepared.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)Males running for POTUS play the gender card all the time. They beat their chests and grunt about how manly and "strong" they are. They all do it, and turnabout being fair play, Hillary gets to play her gender card, all day, every day.
I got no problems with that.
SunSeeker
(51,794 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Even though Obama is the first black president he did not get my vote because he is a black man, he got my vote because of his integrity and ability. Hillary has had to earn the same, McConnell must be getting his story ready for the time Hillary beats the GOP.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)"FEAR the Women" and the Republicans War on Women continues.
But none of them will tell us Why we ought to "Fear the Women".
Just as it is a Bad idea to run any campaign based on gender it is even More foolish to accuse a candidate of Using that argument.
Blue Owl
(50,564 posts)n/t
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)To her credit, I don't think Hilary has ever said "vote for me because I'm a woman." I think that's why some people want to vote for her, but I don't think that's ever been Hilary's stated rationale.
lark
(23,191 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I don't know who the final democratic nominee will be, but I know the republican nominee is in deep shit, whichever.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Hekate
(91,003 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I'll kick this.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Wait for it . . .
Women are tooooooo emotional
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Spazito
(50,572 posts)Makes the point perfectly and done with humor re #gendercard.
riversedge
(70,441 posts)Monday, Jul 20, 2015 03:20 PM CST
Hillary Clinton shuts down Mitch McConnell on womens rights: He doesnt understand what our lives are like
The Senate Majority Leader has already resorted to sexist attacks to dismiss Clinton's candidacy
Sophia Tesfaye
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly suggested that Hillary Clintons presidential candidacy lacked a sufficient rationale, warning that the gender card alone isnt enough.
According to local reporters, McConnell made the remarks today while he was speaking before the Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce where he claimed theres not a dimes worth of difference between Clinton and President Barack Obama:
During a Facebook Q&A today, Huffington Post political reporter Laura Bassett asked Clinton about McConnells comments. Clinton, apparently unaware of McConnells remarks, took the opportunity to castigate the entire Republican party as she has grown fond of doing in recent weeks:
Wow. If thats what he said, Mitch McConnell really doesnt get it. There is a gender card being played in this campaign. Its played every time Republicans vote against giving women equal pay, deny families access to affordable child care or family leave, refuse to let women make decisions about their health or have access to free contraception. These arent just womens issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans. Anyone who doesnt get that doesnt understand what our lives are like.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/hillary_clinton_shuts_down_mitch_mcconnell_on_womens_rights_he_doesnt_understand_what_our_lives_are_like/
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)Her message of SOCIAL JUSTICE
is completely framed in the context
of ECONOMIC JUSTICE.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)You nailed that one, CK. Very good post, and thank you.
Edited to add: great reply, Secretary Clinton.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Don't they need to be different for the "Bernie Sanders doesn't care about black people" line of attack to have any basis in reality?
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)mcar
(42,458 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)She's a classy lady! He deserved the slap.
Gothmog
(145,827 posts)I am glad that Hillary Clinton is fighting back against this idiot
brer cat
(24,645 posts)tanyev
(42,669 posts)That's why this was such a disaster:
bigtree
(86,015 posts)...republicans, on the other hand, are intent on denying these.
So, Hillary happens to be a woman. If that's to her advantage, more power to her. But comparing her to Palin misses the point, entirely. Republicans of any gender promote policies which are an anathema to women. Democrats have promoted and advocated for women-supporting and enabling policies for decades. If Democratic women happen to make these issues and concerns central to their appeal, and women voters respond to that, who here is going to fault them for that? You?
tanyev
(42,669 posts)Hillary is a woman who is also supremely qualified to hold the office of POTUS. McConnell is correct that the gender card alone is not enough, but a better example of when that actually was attempted was in McCain's selection of Palin--with spectacularly bad result.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)Hillary's speech was devoid of any mention of men supporting their daughters and their wives/girlfriends etc. as they struggled for and continue to struggle for the rights and respect they deserve. Many, many men , myself included have supported and continue to support women and girls. We are not perfect, but Hillary' s speech was just too devoid of this reality. Yes , she plays the gender card and hopes that because the majority of democratic voters are women, they will somehow ignore her support of the rich class and the harm their economic policies do to the family, women, men, and children. Hillary betrays herself with her unwillingness to support populist or progressive challenges to the economic status quo and maintaining the status quo of economic inequity is the very goal of those billionaires who donate to her campaign.
So Hillary likes to campaign to the ladies but her refusal to tackle the very economic issues that they care about by confronting the cause of the economic inequity, her donors buying our government, is an insult to women's intelligence. She somehow believes it is all about how she looks and how she talks, but we must know why we should vote for someone financed by those whose interests are so far removed from our own and expect her to work for people and families first.
Her joke about how finally someone else's hair (Trump's) getting more attention than given to her own, while a call to look at substance not style was very telling. She still believes, it is her voice, her appearance, her delivery, that if pitch perfect is key. She forgets she must tell the voters why in very simple words they should vote for her. Her attempt to check off each group as she speaks do not get it. We know she wants to build a coalition , but you best do that around a strong central idea, we all can support. She tries to be Bill, never really liberal but offering verbal support.
oasis
(49,472 posts)No one in the GOP can play it.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Any day where the turtle man gets his shell handed to him is a good day!
marble falls
(57,461 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)She takes the shit that comes out of their mouths and shoves it right back up their asses.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I'd like to add a few more to this meme. I'm sure there are more.
I believe when POC get ahead, America gets ahead!
I believe when LBGT people get ahead, America gets ahead.
I believe when Native Americans get ahead, America gets ahead.