Necessary Roughness

Reuters reports (link dead) that in Des Moines, IA, Senator Hillary Clinton remarked that it was “about time” for a woman president.

I think she was close enough when she was co-president. Most First Ladies wouldn’t be found with FBI files in their possession, or White House Travel Office pink slips, or plans to nationalize one-seventh of the nation’s economy (health care).

I don’t care if the cajones a politician carries are real or imagined; it can never be “about time” for another Clinton, or Bush, for that matter. Women in office I can handle; just not that one.

Or several others, for that matter, even if they’re on the “right” team: Elizabeth Dole abandoned the party base and backed moderates in 2006 only to get spanked. Condi Rice is reportedly pro-abortion. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are pro-big government. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has been soft at stopping illegal immigration — what is it with those Texans? And those are the Republicans. I could be wrong, but does it seem that the last real conservative woman remotely active in politics is Phyllis Schafly? If elected she would not only be the first woman president but also the oldest president, beating Ronald Reagan.

So, given the crop of women in national politics right now, I don’t want a woman in the Oval Office right now, but then I don’t want most men in the Oval Office, either.

If only Barb the Evil Genius would run. Or some puppet I could dictate The Rules of the Game to. But, alas.

Trouble is, when a candidate says it’s about time for a woman to be president, she’s counting on you to give her credit because of the extra X chromosome God gave her. It’s pathetic. At least Barack Obama doesn’t cry out, “vote for me because I’d be the first darkly complected man in the White House.” He’s at least smart enough to have everyone else do that for him.

Seriously: if I came across a woman who understood supply and demand, that everything has trade-offs, that the Federal government’s implied powers are overrated and often abused, that we are better off with ourselves spending our money than the government doing it for us, that all life is sacred, that the Income Tax should be repealed, that the state legislatures be returned to picking senators, that freedom is something that a government can only take away and not give, then I’ll write them in.