Hillary to Mitch McConnell: I'm 'playing the gender card?' Okay, here's my gender card...

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign unveiled its “gender card” on Monday night, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the “gender card alone” won’t be enough to carry her to victory in the race for the White House.

“I don’t think arguing ‘vote for me because I’m a woman’ is enough,” the Kentucky Republican said at an event in his home state on Monday, according to The Associated Press.

“You may recall my election last year,” McConnell said, referring to his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, whom he defeated by double digits in last November’s election. “The gender card alone is not enough.”

The Senate majority leader “really doesn’t get it,” Clinton responded in a Facebook question-and-answer session.

“There is a gender card being played in this campaign,” she added. “It’s played every time Republicans vote against giving women equal pay, deny families access to affordable child care or family leave, refuse to let women make decisions about their health or have access to free contraception. These aren’t just women’s issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans.”

Clinton’s campaign followed up the response with a tweet later in the evening, using the hashtag #gendercard.

If Sen. McConnell thinks fighting for women and families is playing the "gender card"—okay. Here's our #gendercard: pic.twitter.com/mtSCvJWqAD
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 21, 2015

read: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-campaign-2016-gender-card-mitch-mcconnell-120400.html

[NCTraveler]

1. Perfect.

While this is witty, I also have zero problem with her playing the gender card as straight as could be. Women do not have equal representation. Some only like to make this distinction when it benefits them, their guy, or an injustice that makes their radar. Every single poster here recognized the absurd make-up of the Ferguson council and all positions of leadership there. Completely backwards representation. Yet talk about it in contrast with Hillary running for President and you will hear a lot of people say it isn't about gender, it is about electing the best person. Yet country wide women do not have equal representation. This topic is fair game.

[kiri]

13. McConnel easily beat Alison

Remember, Mitchy easily beat Alison Grimes in the Senate race.
Grimes was a terrible candidate, so stupid as to deny she voted for Obama. And so stupid as to hire her father to be her campaign manager.

Mitch is cunning, Grimes/dad were unprepared.

[NCTraveler]

19. I have no clue what this means in response to my post. Thanks for the reply. nt.

[apnu]

18. No kidding

Males running for POTUS play the gender card all the time. They beat their chests and grunt about how manly and "strong" they are. They all do it, and turnabout being fair play, Hillary gets to play her gender card, all day, every day.

I got no problems with that.

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R

[Thinkingabout]

3. This is from a guy who did not think the issues with women had already been solved.

Even though Obama is the first black president he did not get my vote because he is a black man, he got my vote because of his integrity and ability. Hillary has had to earn the same, McConnell must be getting his story ready for the time Hillary beats the GOP.

[fredamae]

4. A "Mitch Message"?

"FEAR the Women" and the Republicans War on Women continues.

But none of them will tell us Why we ought to "Fear the Women".
Just as it is a Bad idea to run any campaign based on gender it is even More foolish to accuse a candidate of Using that argument.

[Blue Owl]

5. Meanwhile McConnell's a few cards short of a full deck

n/t

[bigtree]

6. kick

[sarge43]

7. Zing. McConnell is trying to play way out of his league.

[Jester Messiah]

8. Good response.

To her credit, I don't think Hilary has ever said "vote for me because I'm a woman." I think that's why some people want to vote for her, but I don't think that's ever been Hilary's stated rationale.

[lark]

9. You tell him, Hillary!

[cyberswede]

10. Great response to a ridiculous comment by McConnell.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Hah, a most excellent broadside.

I don't know who the final democratic nominee will be, but I know the republican nominee is in deep shit, whichever.

[blackspade]

12. Well done

[Hekate]

14. Kick'em

[Agschmid]

15. Republicans are asses. EOM.

I'll kick this.

[Iliyah]

16. K & R

Wait for it . . .

Women are tooooooo emotional

[mmonk]

17. LOL. Great come back.

[Spazito]

20. Perfect response!

Makes the point perfectly and done with humor re #gendercard.

[riversedge]

21. Great reply Hillary...

Monday, Jul 20, 2015 03:20 PM CST
Hillary Clinton shuts down Mitch McConnell on women’s rights: He “doesn’t understand what our lives are like”
The Senate Majority Leader has already resorted to sexist attacks to dismiss Clinton's candidacy
Sophia Tesfaye


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly suggested that Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy lacked a sufficient rationale, warning that “the gender card alone isn’t enough.”

According to local reporters, McConnell made the remarks today while he was speaking before the Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce where he claimed there’s not “a dime’s worth of difference” between Clinton and President Barack Obama:

During a Facebook Q&A today, Huffington Post political reporter Laura Bassett asked Clinton about McConnell’s comments. Clinton, apparently unaware of McConnell’s remarks, took the opportunity to castigate the entire Republican party as she has grown fond of doing in recent weeks:

Wow. If that’s what he said, Mitch McConnell really doesn’t get it. There is a gender card being played in this campaign. It’s played every time Republicans vote against giving women equal pay, deny families access to affordable child care or family leave, refuse to let women make decisions about their health or have access to free contraception. These aren’t just women’s issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans. Anyone who doesn’t get that doesn’t understand what our lives are like.

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/hillary_clinton_shuts_down_mitch_mcconnell_on_womens_rights_he_doesnt_understand_what_our_lives_are_like/

[Cosmic Kitten]

22. Hillary conceeds social justice is tied to economic justice

Her message of SOCIAL JUSTICE
is completely framed in the context
of ECONOMIC JUSTICE.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. ^^^Please read this post^^^

You nailed that one, CK. Very good post, and thank you.

Edited to add: great reply, Secretary Clinton.

[hughee99]

33. Wait, I thought the two were completely different.

Don't they need to be different for the "Bernie Sanders doesn't care about black people" line of attack to have any basis in reality?

[Cosmic Kitten]

34. EXACTLY. The talking point falls apart once scrutinized

[mcar]

23. Well said HRC

[rock]

25. Hillary made Mitch her b**ch

She's a classy lady! He deserved the slap.

[oasis]

26. Kick

[Gothmog]

27. The turtleman is an idiot

I am glad that Hillary Clinton is fighting back against this idiot

[brer cat]

28. Great response.

[tanyev]

29. You're right, Mitch. The gender card alone is not enough.

That's why this was such a disaster:

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30. the only gender card being played by Hillary is her advocating of women's rights and opportunity

...republicans, on the other hand, are intent on denying these.

So, Hillary happens to be a woman. If that's to her advantage, more power to her. But comparing her to Palin misses the point, entirely. Republicans of any gender promote policies which are an anathema to women. Democrats have promoted and advocated for women-supporting and enabling policies for decades. If Democratic women happen to make these issues and concerns central to their appeal, and women voters respond to that, who here is going to fault them for that? You?

[tanyev]

31. Sorry, I think you misunderstood the point I was trying to make.

Hillary is a woman who is also supremely qualified to hold the office of POTUS. McConnell is correct that the gender card alone is not enough, but a better example of when that actually was attempted was in McCain's selection of Palin--with spectacularly bad result.

[Scuba]

32. K&R

[daybranch]

35. It was also played by Hillary in the Iowa Hall of Fame Speech

Hillary's speech was devoid of any mention of men supporting their daughters and their wives/girlfriends etc. as they struggled for and continue to struggle for the rights and respect they deserve. Many, many men , myself included have supported and continue to support women and girls. We are not perfect, but Hillary' s speech was just too devoid of this reality. Yes , she plays the gender card and hopes that because the majority of democratic voters are women, they will somehow ignore her support of the rich class and the harm their economic policies do to the family, women, men, and children. Hillary betrays herself with her unwillingness to support populist or progressive challenges to the economic status quo and maintaining the status quo of economic inequity is the very goal of those billionaires who donate to her campaign.
So Hillary likes to campaign to the ladies but her refusal to tackle the very economic issues that they care about by confronting the cause of the economic inequity, her donors buying our government, is an insult to women's intelligence. She somehow believes it is all about how she looks and how she talks, but we must know why we should vote for someone financed by those whose interests are so far removed from our own and expect her to work for people and families first.
Her joke about how finally someone else's hair (Trump's) getting more attention than given to her own, while a call to look at substance not style was very telling. She still believes, it is her voice, her appearance, her delivery, that if pitch perfect is key. She forgets she must tell the voters why in very simple words they should vote for her. Her attempt to check off each group as she speaks do not get it. We know she wants to build a coalition , but you best do that around a strong central idea, we all can support. She tries to be Bill, never really liberal but offering verbal support.

[oasis]

36. Keep on playing that gender card, it's a ticket to the White .House.

No one in the GOP can play it.

[d_legendary1]

37. I'm down for Hillary laying the smack down on the GOP

Any day where the turtle man gets his shell handed to him is a good day!

[marble falls]

38. Great reply to a cheap ass shot. I like it when Hillary speaks in this kind of sraight forward way.

[hollowdweller]

39. Good Job Hillary

[msanthrope]

40. this is why I love Hillary Clinton.

She takes the shit that comes out of their mouths and shoves it right back up their asses.

[McCamy Taylor]

41. K&R

[passiveporcupine]

42. I agree with her

I'd like to add a few more to this meme. I'm sure there are more.

I believe when POC get ahead, America gets ahead!

I believe when LBGT people get ahead, America gets ahead.

I believe when Native Americans get ahead, America gets ahead.