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Graspingly Ambitious Harridan May Have Temerity to Seek Higher Office

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When I wrote the post about Gillibrand yesterday, I didn’t know it would serve as the preemptive rebuttal to one of the worst columns you’ll read all year:

The larger question about Gillibrand, though, is whether she is too transparently opportunistic to be a viable candidate after the rejection of another New York politician criticized for basing her positions on supposedly canny calculations rather than on from-the-gut convictions.

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For Gillibrand, nearly every move seems to be a self-serving playing of the angles. While it’s not surprising to see a politician behave this way, Gillibrand seems to be an especially egregious practitioner of the finger-in-the-wind politics that so many voters can no longer abide.

It goes on like that.

The best that can be said for the “arbitrary decontextualized dealbreaker” and “preemptive refusal to take yes for answer” attacks on Gillibrand is that, while they’re very, very, very stupid they’re not inherently sexist (although they may be intertwined with sexism in particular cases.) Arguments that it’s unusual and disturbing for a woman who is a politician to have higher ambitions, though, are just naked sexism. And the narrative that Gillibrand is just a photocopy of Hillary, despite the obvious differences between them as individuals and their political trajectories is both sexist and lazy.

As an antidote, here’s a careful empirical analysis of Gillibrand’s record, which again has always been to the left of whatever constituency she’s represented.

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