I had lunch with a co-worker today - a Republican who’s very passionate about politics, if not as informed as she thinks. (For one thing, she’s utterly convinced that Saddam had WMDs and funded the World Trade Center attack.) Nonetheless, she’s watching events somewhat closely, and she informed me today she was voting for Hillary Clinton if she got the nomination.
“You know, when she started crying, she came across as really human. I already know she can be a bitch, so she can be a bitch when she needs to be and human when she needs to be,” she said. “So I’m voting for her. She was saying it was hard for her, and I know what that’s like. All women know what it’s like.”
I don’t think she’s unusual. I’d heard several women mention Hillary in a new, favorable light - they definitely took umbrage at the media beating up on her. Because the attacks, they said, weren’t about her policies - they were about her, and they didn’t think that was fair. “How come they don’t do that with the men?” one of them said. (I was tempted to remind her about John Edwards’ hair, but I didn’t.)
