Hillary Clinton has been allllll over the media circuit recently, because she and daughter Chelsea are pushing their new “Book of Gutsy Women.”
I wonder if she’s trying to increase her publicity before swooping into the 2020 presidential pool at the last minute. It’s got to be KILLING her that Elizabeth Warren is looking like the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in light of Bernie Sanders’ health troubles and Joe Biden’s family corruption troubles. Can you imagine how mad she’ll be if Trump’s 2020 challenger is a different white, female, career politician in her 70s? Hillary’s supposed to be the first female president, not Elizabeth Warren, gosh darn it.
Nevermind whether either of them can actually beat Trump next year.
Anyway, as Karen told you the other day, Hillary was on Good Morning America recently, where she said the gutsiest thing she’s ever done, personally, was stay married to Bill.
More likely, their marriage isn’t about guts, it’s about preserving that spousal privilege – they can’t get divorced, because then they could be compelled to testify against each other. And they can’t let that happen.
Well, Hillary followed up about her “gutsy” decision on the The View, where she compared staying in her marriage to… raising a transgender child.
“Sometimes when your child has an issue – I had a friend a few years ago who called up and said ‘I don’t know who to talk to about this, but may little girl wants to be a boy. What do I do?’ And, you know, several of us kind of – we didn’t know what to do, we never had a friend who’d faced that before. Several of us kind of read everything and talked to people and gave her advice and it was really gutsy for her to say okay, ‘I’m going to respect the feelings of my child as hard as it is for me to understand this.’ So, I think when the question was asked, personally, everybody faces a moment of decision, and you have to reach decision, and you have to reach deep down inside and decide what’s right for you to do and hopefully it’s reached with love and understanding.”
Yes, Hillary compared deciding to stay married to an adulterer and alleged rapist to dealing with a child experiencing gender dysphoria. That seems insulting to transgender children, to say the least.
Obviously, I don’t know (or want to know) the details of the Clinton’s marriage. But I don’t think Hillary’s decision to stick with Bill was “gutsy” – I think it was calculated, self-serving, and not at all comparably to dealing with your child’s mental health issues.
So, is she running in 2020 or not?