George Will nicely summed up a few of the more salient arguments against Hillary's candidacy, and her supporters' frequent assertion that she is the victim of sexism.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...
For those of you who want the Cliff's Notes:
Some of Clinton's supporters seem to be cultivating, for a purpose, a permutation of the entitlement mentality that many voters thought they discerned in her candidacy and found off-putting. She seemed to feel entitled to the Democrats' nomination, and having been denied it, she may feel really entitled to be Obama's running mate. But for him, choosing her would be even more dangerous than Bosnian sniper fire. She would solve none of his problems, and would create others.
Entitlement indeed. You could almost see it in her eyes when she started to see that she might be in trouble (early March or so). I remember when she praised McCain and herself, and then snidely said "and Obama gave a speech in 2002" as his only "experience." The undertone was "this nomination is MINE." How dare you take it away?
Because Democrats are desperate to win in November, they will support Obama, so his most pressing priority should be to compete with John McCain for independent voters, or for people lightly attached to the Republican Party. Almost all the people who like Clinton are Democrats, and a recent poll revealed that only 39 percent of Americans regard her as "honest and trustworthy," down from 52 percent in May 2006. Furthermore, if Obama cannot win New York without her, he is going to lose almost everywhere else.
This is key. Why is it that only 39% of Americans regard her as "honest and trustworthy?" Umm, could it be because she ISN'T?! The Clintons always used to get away with whoppers, but in this era of YouTube, it's much more difficult. Remember the Bosnia video?
More than 300 million Americans living at this hour will never be president. They will never even be senator from New York. That office is not chopped liver. Neither is it a form of disregard.
Exactly. The notion that Hillary Clinton, a woman who has had a long and successful career, is now the victim of sexism because she is being denied the highest office in the land, is silly. There has been very little talk in exit polls of men not voting for Hillary because she is a woman. However, there's been a LOT of talk about whites voting for her because she is white.
It's not sexism. There are many, MANY women whom progressives would embrace as a presidential candidate. Hillary just doesn't happen to be one of them, and it isn't because of her gender.