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In last week’s Democrat debate, Hillary Clinton got hammered by the field –like any frontrunner would. The difference here: Hillary whined about how she was being picked on because she is a woman.  

30 points up and closer to the primaries, strategically Hillary had to know going into this debate that the opposition would come out swinging. Knowing this going in, and then still collapsing under pressure is a massive blunder on her part.

Or was it? According to the article, this might be part of a larger, long-term campaign strategy. Money quote: “Clinton’s advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss internal matters, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her. The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.”

Strategy aside, as an average voter, I can tell you this: if she can’t take the heat from cream puffs like John Edwards (who was a one-term Senator, ran for President because he wasn’t going to win Senate again, and ceaselessly combs his hair to look pretty), Barack Obama (who cakewalked to the US Senate, spent two years hanging out, and then suddenly thinks he’s qualified to lead the free world), and especially that idiot from Delaware Joe Biden (he is just another Washington lifer from an irrelevant state), then how is she going to stand up to rogue leaders in the middle east, Putin in Russia, the boys in China and India, that psycho in Iran, and that other psycho in North Korea? What is she going to do when things get tough? Complain how it’s not fair? Break down and cry?

And who knows this better than anyone? Women voters. They don’t want another terrorist attack on our soil. They don’t want psychopaths getting hold of nuclear bombs. The very group Hillary thinks she is courting will be the first to say that we cannot have a candyass of any gender in the White House. Proof positive: Why does W do so well with women voters? Because they know if someone attacks us that he will hunt them to the ends of the earth and drive a cruise missile up their ass. They know he doesn’t mess around when it comes to this kind of thing. He won’t cry, and he won’t complain about how unfairly he is being treated. And people sleep better at night because of it.

You know who also knows this? Big business. They know that if we cannot protect our cities and our citizens, then taxes, trade policy, regulation, and every other issue becomes irrelevant. Business cannot thrive if the basic safety of the nation is not guaranteed.

And who else knows this? The rest of Democrat field. Money quote from Obama: “I am assuming and I hope that Sen. Clinton wants to be treated like everybody else. And I think that that’s why she is running for president. You know, when we had a debate in Iowa a while back, we spent the first 15 minutes of the debate hitting me on various foreign policy issues. And I didn’t come out and say ‘look, I’m being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage.’ . . . We’re not running for the president of the city council. We’re running for the president of the United States of America.”

While Obama takes advantage of Hillary’s blunder to say that he will not play the race card, and perhaps handily dismiss the race issue altogether from the campaign, it becomes apparent that Hillary just might have had her Howard Dean moment. Now that they know they have her on the run, expect the pounding to continue, especially from Obama, who has a sizable war chest in his own right. And expect this race to finally tighten.

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