I personally love Hillary Clinton. I always have. I interned for her office when she was the First Lady. I think she is intellectually powerful, politically astute, and personally resilient.
That being said, I realize that for reasons I will probably never understand, a lot of people really dislike her (even hate her). Hillary comes with baggage... a lot of baggage. Her name recognition is her greatest asset as well as her greatest weakness, and the same can be said of her husband (who, of course, I also love).
So here is the problem: money can't buy you love. It can’t buy me love. And it certainly cannot buy HIllary love. It can't undo the past. It can't unpack or unload that baggage that has been thrust upon her by the public. There are not enough advertisements in the world to make that 52% change their mind about her.
I think we can all list the reasons why she would be a great President. That is because we are Democrats and we like the Clintons (at least the vast majority of us do). But we are not the only people voting in November. In fact, we may not even be a majority of people voting in November.
The bottom line is that she still is not a viable candidate for the general election. It hurts me to think that. It isn't fair necessarily but it is a truth that Dems don't seem to want to admit about the general public and the general election.
I don't want to pat myself on the back b/c we nominated a talented, smart, capable woman to be the Democratic presidential nominee. I want to pat myself on the back for taking the WHite HOuse from the party that is driving this country into the ground and if that means I have to post-pone the ground-breaking, history-making nominee to do it, then I will.