Bill Clinton Admits Conservatives Aren't Sexist

Sitting down this past Sunday with CBS News’ Tracy Smith, former President Bill Clinton was asked if he thought America just wasn’t ready for a female president.

“Maybe,” he said haltingly. “I think in some ways, we’ve moved to the right as a result of all this turmoil.”

What “turmoil” he was referring to was left unsaid, but he gave a hint when he noted:

“I think all these cultural battles that we’re fighting make it harder in some ways for a woman to run.”

Those cultural battles would include abortion, the sexual confusion of children, the battle over education, parental authority, religious rights and freedom.

“So, you think it has more to do with party than gender?” Smith pressed.

“No,” Clinton responded. “Although I think it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win.”

In other words, Americans aren’t reluctant to vote for a woman to be president – but it does seem they’re objecting to a liberal woman in the Oval Office.

In America’s history, there have been just two major female presidential candidates on the November ballot – former First Lady Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.

Geraldine Ferraro was on the ballot in 1984 as Walter Mondale’s running mate. Of course, Vice President Harris won election in 2020 with President Joe Biden.

But Bill Clinton is saying a whole lot in only a few words. For decades, we’ve been told by feminists that far too many citizens are sexist and misogynistic. We’ve been told that Americans are uncomfortable with strong women in leadership roles.

During the 2024 campaign, billionaire investor Mark Cuban suggested that President-elect Trump has never promoted nor worked with intelligent and driven females. 

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” the television star said on ABC’s The View. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.”

Cuban offered a pseudo apology, explaining, “I didn’t get it out exactly the way I thought I did. So I apologize to anyone who felt slighted or upset by my response.”

Americans as a whole are neither intimidated by women nor opposed to politicians because of their sex. But the last election laid bare the fact voters are opposed to woke policies that harm children, threaten freedom, and wrestle authority from mothers and fathers.

Just last week, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Al Mohler, addressed this question by pointing to Great Britain’s election of Margaret Thatcher for prime minister years ago.

“The British people elected the Conservatives to lead the government with Margaret Thatcher at the head, not because so much they wanted a woman Prime Minister, but because they overwhelmingly agreed with the Conservative principles that Margaret Thatcher so clearly articulated,” Dr. Mohler observed.

“I think when you look at Ronald Reagan, he was elected because he was understood to be able to bring about the Conservative change that Americans overwhelmingly wanted.”

Bill Clinton told CBS News that he thinks it’s likely a woman would be elected soon. What he didn’t say was who he thought the conservative female might be. But it’s nevertheless fascinating to see one of the Left’s leading voices dismissing and denouncing one of the major talking points bandied about by so many for so many years.

To the great disappointment of identity-politic ideologues, American voters judge politicians by their ideological genius not their sex.

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