2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann has advice for the Hillary Clinton Campaign [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)If someone mentions the debates their long term memory is Bernie Sanders saying "The American people are sick and tired of your damned emails." That was the thing and it ends up being both an honorable thing and a call towards being both civil and issue based.
The short term "who won the debate thing" gets gradually lost in polling crap, focus groups, and silly pundits in favor of the most famous quotes. The only way to undo that is to taint it, to make it seem as though the guy that did the right thing was somehow being sexist.
It is negative, yes. I don't think it is essential to her character or anything but I do think it is dirty politics and not based on anything substantive or factual. Women struggle every day for equal pay, against sexual harrassment, to be allowed to do the same work as men, and just for some goddamned respect. This "shouting" thing is like selling all of that down the river for a political dig that doesn't even land.