Letters to the Editor
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@ lateagain
How should Hillary respond to The Snub? As a practical matter, in any way that best benefits her campaign. This is politics after all. I get so amused by those who use words like political calculation as if it were a bad thing or who say things like "Hillary only wants to win." I should hope she wants to win. Otherwise, she and a lot of other people have spent enormous time in an exercise in silliness.
Why is it that it is bad for the female candidate to want to win and to do things to advantage herself to win, but it is not bad when male candidates do the same thing? Are we so backward that we really feel that girls are not allowed to play to win lest they appear to be unfeminine?
As a woman, I would like Hillary to respond very forthrightly to her attackers. Myself, I am a stand your ground and take no prisoners sort of woman. I don't back down.
However, it probably would not be very politically expedient for Hillary to be as combative as I. She still has to appeal to the South, remember? They like ladies to be ladies.