2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Flawed: Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good If Youre A Female Presidential Candidate [View all]karynnj
(59,990 posts)I found it was full of declarations, that were completely unsupported. You love it because it validates what you already thought.
I can not believe the absolutely ridiculous ways you have twisted my comments. The fact is you can not WIN in a landslide, when you lose per the way the race is determined. That does not mean I am pretending CA does not or should not exist. SHE LOST. I would have been happier had she won.
I have posted about voter suppression. I have posted that Comey's two letters should never have happened. I have posted that the leaked emails likely hurt. Those are outside factors that hurt her. However - even given that - she would have won without the email controversy (which she caused by ignoring the requests as Secretary and leaving without giving them to the SD.), and the incredible tone deafness of doing those speeches and the ability to say that she avoided even the perception that there could have been any conflict of interest between the Clinton Foundation and her State Department - Obama created that mou to protect his administration. Had she followed it in spirit and to the letter of the written document there would have been nothing anyone could have used.
I DID NOT MISS THE POINT of the article, I disagree with it. I can see you think Clinton walked on water and no one else was ever held to the standards she was. I listed three things that I know hurt her. I said NONE were illegal.