For those who don’t like Hillary Clinton, their rationale can be conceded. She can be downright disingenuous in how she represents her version of controversies that don’t reflect favorably on her. She’s flip-flopped on issues ranging from gay marriage to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She has Wall Street baggage. She can be hawkish. Her marriage to Bill Clinton always seemed more of an opportunistic and enabling merger than a marriage.
But, frankly, so what?
The presidential alternative is unacceptable. More to the point, as a respected former New York senator and Secretary of State, her credentials are beyond reproach–if not partisan potshots. As a former First Lady, she has a track record of working for kids, women’s rights and better health care.
She’s smart and she’s experienced. As for disingenuousness and flip-flops, they are part of pragmatic political reality hardly unique to Clinton. She’s running for the presidency, not canonization. She took huge speaking fees from the likes of Goldman Sachs when not in office. It’s part of the marketplace, albeit the part most of us don’t like. Her hawkishness is relative; she’s no apocalyptic loose cannon. Her marriage is her business.
Hillary Clinton is on course to make history. More importantly, she’s on course to be the president we now need.