Republicans/Non-Democrats who watched the MSNBC Democratic Presidential Debate: What did you think?

I don't think that Hillary would by default would become a role model for girls around the country. Just because she would be the first woman president doesn't mean she would be a good president. That's highly contested even within the democratic party. Do you think young Republican women will see her as a role model? Or a poor black girl? She is an affluent white woman that's been in the background of politics essentially her entire adult life. The way she carries herself is that of a woman that believes she deserves the WH and that she's waited entirely too long to get there. She doesn't empower women. I'm a woman. A notable woman scientist is a role model. A public woman that does not allow herself to be dragged through the dirt is a role model. A woman that has not courted politics for fame and power is a role model. None of which Hillary can stand by. There is a cloud of doubt that will never leave her because of her choices she has made.

I want a woman president more than anyone I know, but I want the right woman to represent us, not just a woman who happens to have been the wife of a former president.

(Also she plays the woman card where ever she can- that's the main point of her entire candidacy for president. She used her gender in her opening speech at the first debate of why she's running for president. She calls herself an outsider and underdog because she's a woman (Bernie's a Jew and I've never heard him use that card for gain). She has embraced being a woman SO much that she seems overly political about it. We already have enough problems with the rights of women, and Hillary is introducing more problems.

Trust me, I was on the Hillary bandwagon in 08 and I voted for her in the primaries, but this entire '16 campaign has morphed into her declaring herself a woman. She is knowledgeable on SO much, but that always takes a backseat to her being a woman in her emails, her facebook posts, her debate responses, and her rallying cries.

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