I'm With Her

I’m with her, but you knew that already. Today in my great state of California I get to cast my second primary vote for Hillary Clinton. I voted for her back in 2008, but you knew that already, too.

You, of course, are free to vote for whomever you choose in this – the last gasp of the primary season. But I hope, come November 8, you’ll all be voting along with me. Because whatever your hesitation with Hillary (who, it should be noted, is nearly a carbon copy of President Obama on policy), she is infinitely more qualified and capable to be president than Donald Trump. That is a fact.

This isn’t an ordinary election where two party faithful repeat relatively conventional party policies and the electorate picks based on their pre-existing inclinations and unquantifiables like who they’d rather have a beer with. This is an election where one person has served our country dutifully as First Lady, a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State and the other is a silver spoon real estate developer proposing we “temporarily” ban all Muslims, build a wall to keep out Mexicans, punish women who have abortions and overturn federal marriage equality. Oh, and he thinks a judge of Mexican descent can’t preside over his fake university trial because he is of Mexican descent. Maybe you can live with a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic demagogue in the White House. But just the thought of it gives me panic attacks on a fairly regular basis.

But as much as I am horrified by the thought of Donald Trump winning the presidency, I’m excited for Hillary Clinton to be president. I want her to president. It is as simple as that. Like I said, I’m with her.