Thanks for that. Why would you vote Hillary over Romney? What qualifications does she have that Romney lacks?
Frankly, I don't think there have been too many presidents in our history who have actually been truly "qualified" in any way to be president.
When you look at the things that conventional wisdom counts as strong qualifications you find that some presidents who held those qualifications were good, and sometimes even great, presidents, and other times guys who have held those same (or similar enough to be essentially the same) qualifications were below average, and sometimes even lousy, presidents.
If I had to list Mitt Romney's core "qualifications" I'd say that on paper they include a good education, partial ownership of a successfully run business (though how much of that success can be attributed directly to Romney is unknown), and a moderately successful stint as governor.
What's not to love?
Right?
Well, throw in an honorable, if not terribly distinguished, spell as a military officer in a very demanding specialty and you've described Jimmy Carter.
So on paper Romney shares "qualifications" with, and even manages to lack some of the qualifications of, arguably, one of the worst presidents in this nation's history.
I guess my point is that I don't necessarily look overmuch at conventional qualifications when choosing a president.
Of course they're important, as I'd like to see that the candidate has at least done something more with his life than lay on the couch smoking pot, but I don't think that even the best "qualifications" are a sure sign, or even a good indicator, that a candidate will make a successful president.
So what I do is look at the whole candidate; his "qualifications", the positions he takes and the policies he supports, whether he has a stiff back or sways in the wind, the truths and lies he tells, how he treats other people, how he relates to other people, and etc...
At least in so far as it is possible for me to do so.
And when I do that with Hillary and Romney Hillary comes out the end of that process as the lesser scumbag of the two.
And make no mistake, I think they're both absolute scum and among the worst that this country has produced in terms of human beings.
So I choose the one that offends and repulses me less on a visceral level.