While I am down, bravo Hillary – UPDATED

UPDATE: When I wrote this I had not heard Hillary’s “hard-working white Americans” blurb. Very stupid. I said earlier that her persistence might mean she was a psychopath – that was meant as a throwaway joke – but, well, as Peggy Noonan points out, this whole thing has become psychodrama. I am pulling back my “bravo.” “hard-working white Americans” is either very stupid or deliberately divisive. It cannot be cheered. ::: END UPDATE :::

I rarely read something that I really, really wish I’d written, but this is one of those times.

I just told my husband last night, “I would never, ever in a million years vote for her…but I must say I’m beginning to actually respect Hillary; she’s a tough little boat, and she’s not going to stand down or be controlled by anyone. It might be because she’s a psychopath, of course, but it might also just be because she’s a woman who believes she knows what she knows and will not ‘stand down’ simply because it’s getting rough. You have to respect that. Dare I say, in that sense, she is reminding me a little of George W. Bush; he and Tony Blair had the entire world telling them to stand down, shut up and get off the stage. They plunged forward, at the risk of their political capital, because they believed in their mission – to depose Saddam, liberate Iraq and form an Arab democracy in the Middle East. Hillary’s mission is very different, of course – the acquisition of power (and a place in history) she believes is her due – but, she’s not letting the press, the pundits or the mood-warriors stop her. And you know, she actually looks like she’s loving the battle.”

My husband said, “of course she’s loving the battle. She’s a woman.”

Bingo. There was my lede, but I was too tired to write it.

Turns out, I didn’t have to, because Kyle-Anne Shiver (who also will never vote for Hillary) has written a piece that – almost word-for-word – expresses how I’m feeling about Hillary Clinton today. It is an appreciation of Hillary Clinton’s testicular ovarian fortitude.

Writes Shiver:

I will not vote for Hillary Clinton in November, no matter what.

Unlike Ann Coulter, I deem the makeup of the Supreme Court for the next 30 years of the utmost importance, and I know a little about what the “Progressives” want to do with the Constitution through the Court. I have (with my husband) raised children, unlike Ann, and I don’t play around with their futures.

All of those disclaimers are out of the way now.

And I’m so proud of Hillary Clinton right now that I could burst. Seriously.

If there is a single shred of grown-up quality left in the Democrat Party, it is only evidenced by Hillary Clinton’s refusal to let the Party blindly nominate a thoroughly wet-behind-the-ears, know-nothing candidate, who has gotten to this political height on the strength of a cowering, blind media elite (as Bill Clinton said earlier in this campaign), a bunch of hormonally driven college students, and the color of his own skin.
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She started out feeling entitled and above our questions and has become now the candidate who is actually interviewing for the job. Fighting for it.

And she is actually demonstrating the kind of mettle needed in a President and Commander In Chief, while he, on the other hand throws inconvenient folks under his arrogant male bus. She has made it abundantly clear that Iran will be annihilated if it attacks Israel.

Bravo, Kyle-Anne, and yeah, bravo (little-b) Hillary, too! You’ll want to read the whole thing. H/T Larwyn