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In most of the world, brazenly unfaithful political marriages have now gone out of fashion.
One of Hillary Clinton’s principal if implicit appeals to voters is that, because she’ll be the first female president, she’ll be a representative and a voice for women.
The trouble is, she’s a terrible representative for American women.
Does anybody seriously believe, for one thing, that she would have been a Senator, a Secretary of State, and the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination had she not been the wife of Bill Clinton? Is this really the kind of female achievement for which feminists have yearned?
And what price did she have to pay in order to keep her wagon hitched to that particular political star?
Consider these two items:
“It’s a Bad Day for the Clintons When Vox Fairly Explains the Rape Allegation Against Bill”
“How Bill Quickly Went from Asset to Liability for Hillary’s Campaign”
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