It's Not Her Fault!

I'm waiting--in vain, no doubt--for the intellectually honest people of the left (or is that an oxymoron?) to speak frankly and objectively about their candidate. Those of us on the right have been quite frank about "our" candidate. I would expect no less from the left.

Instead, what I'm hearing is par for the course: it's a witch hunt, it's a Republican conspiracy, it's the Russians, and now, the latest, straight out of, you guessed it, academia: "Email-gate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us."

Ah, yes! The gender card! Before that, the race card! It's never about their guy's malpractice, their gal's malfeasance. The left has become a cliche, and the few good people I know on the left should say so. But...dollars to donuts, they won't.

Prove me wrong, gentlemen and ladies of the left! Let's see whether you're even capable of self-scrutiny.

"Hillary Clinton's Emailgate is an Attack on Women," by Robin Lakoff

  

"The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere. There is so much of that going around" (Robin Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley).