Democrats like Hillary Clinton think “unless you fit their orthodoxy, you don’t count as a woman, you don’t count as an African-American, you don’t count as a Hispanic,” charged Republican presidential nominee Carly Fiorina, arguing that the nation should move away from divisive politics and unify.
“People have this image of [Hillary,] they think they know her, they think they want to vote for her and the more they learn, the less they want to vote for her,” GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said on Fox’s “Hannity” show last night.
Former Hewlett-Packard executive Fiorina charged that her Democratic rival Clinton “certainly doesn’t want to answer questions about foreign governments making donations to your family foundation while you’re serving as secretary of state, you certainly don’t want to answer questions about why you had a server in your basement, you don’t want to answer questions about Benghazi; I mean there’s a whole series of questions you don’t want to answer!
“I’m not attacking Hillary. I’m asking questions. I’m asking very legitimate questions about her transparency, her trustworthiness, her track record. I’m not asking because I’m a woman,” said Fiorina. “I’m asking because I come from a world where those things count.
“The fact that she’s held a bunch of high falutin’ titles is interesting,” Fiorina said. “The fact that she hasn’t accomplished anything while she held those titles is more interesting.”
Hannity asked Fiorina about the charges of “sexism” that have been leveled at President Obama. Fiorina explained that the word feminist has been co-opted by groups like the National Organization for Women, “a political organization” that “put forward a particular political agenda.”
“For example, Hillary Clinton during the 2014 elections said, when she was campaigning against Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, for Bruce Braley, she said, ‘Well, it’s not enough to be a woman, you have to be a woman who believes,’ and she then went on and listed the liberal orthodoxy,” said Fiorina.
“And that is how these folks think, that unless you fit their orthodoxy, you don’t count as a woman, you don’t count as an African-American, you don’t count as a Hispanic,” said Fiorina. “And of course, that’s ridiculous.
“We need to take gender and race out of all these conversations, we need to unify the nation once again. But Hillary Clinton will try to make gender the issue in her election.”
