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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton responds to her critics: "They never said that to any man who was not elected." [View all]thesquanderer
(12,815 posts)the article goes on to say, "Clinton, who lost her White House against Trump, then rattled off a list of recent presidential hopefuls whose campaigns also failed to get them to the White House, and didn't disappear afterward: Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney. 'He's running for Senate!' Clinton exclaimed after naming Romney, the two-time Republican presidential nominee."
But Mitt Romney and Al Gore practically went into hiding after they lost. McCain and Kerry were still serving Senators. Yes, Romney is running for Senate, but he essentially disappeared for 5 years first. Al Gore became the climate change activist, but again, he essentially disappeared for 5 years first. Neither took to the public stage criticizing the person they lost to in the aftermath of their loss, and for that matter, neither really did Kerry or McCain even though they were still politically active as senators.
So the circumstances are quite different. Not *everything* negative that happens to a woman has to be because of misogyny. If Romney had been speaking out and railing on Obama in 2013, I have a feeling a bunch of people here would be saying, "Hey, Mitt, you lost. Get over it and shut up."
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