Steve Sailer has a post up about Hillary Clinton. I Posted something there which will be approved whenever Sailer decides to roll out of bed. The Unz site has a lot going for it, but the commenting system is a dumpster fire. Anyway, after posting it I thought about it some more and here are some things I should have added.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was all that interesting. In my work life, I’ve encountered her type many times. That’s the bitchy, middle-aged professional woman that is always pissed off because she cannot reconcile feminist orthodoxy with her reality. These are the broads who were marinated in feminism in college, but married well nonetheless.

They still have the feminist nonsense in their heads about how they can compete with the boys and take down the patrimony, but the reality is they just married well. Their husband makes a good living so they can live the life, but also “have a career.” In the case of Hillary Clinton, her career was being a screw up, who had a highly successful husband.

All the way back to Arkansas, Clinton seems to have been in over her head. The scandals with the shady land dealers are a prime example. Bill’s finger prints were never on those things. The same is true of the law firm shenanigans. The only thing anyone could ever pin on him were the bimbos and that’s nothing new in Southern politics.

As she enters the Bob Dole phase of her career, she is slightly more interesting. Instead of the bitchy middle-aged “professional” woman, she is a a boozy old gal that is a feature of the Washington cocktail circuit. These are the women who have been married to politicians their whole lives and have a cultured cynicism that comes from years of disappointment.

Like Bob Dole, she is probably a hoot after a few drinks, but you can always sense why no one in the political class thought enough of them to put them in charge of anything. They are the sort of people who never ask, “What if this doesn’t work?” As a consequence, they get jammed up on minor stuff.

This e-mail scandal is a classic Hillary bungle. The old rule in politics is “never write when you can speak, never speak when you can nod.” There’s nothing wrong with having a private e-mail account. It should have been two steps removed from the boss. Hillary should have dictated her correspondence and never e-mailed anyone in her official capacity, other than to send birthday wishes.

But, that’s been the story for three decades or more with this woman. As I mentioned on my Unz post, everyone forgets why Clinton lost in 2008 to Obama. Her and her people failed to account for the rule changes the DNC implemented for the 2008 primary. The Clinton team was operating under the old rules, prior to proportional allotment of delegates.

I’m going to play amateur psychiatrist here. I wonder if this serial bungling is a way to get attention from her husband. When I worked in DC, I saw this quite a bit. The wives of politicians are often just furniture. They stand next to hubby on stage and for photos, but otherwise hubby thinks about them as much as he thinks about the coffee maker.

There are more than a few drama queens in the political wife club. It’s how they get the attention of their husbands who spend all of their time with their staff. Hilliary’s scandals are the one thing she and Bill share together. Maybe there’s a damsel in distress syndrome going on here that drives these unforced errors.

I remain skeptical about her chances to be president. There’s a Bob Dole ’96 vibe here. The party does not have anyone ready that they trust and it is not looking like  good year to run anyway. May as well let the old broad have her day in the sun as the first female nominee. Otherwise, everyone will just go through the motions.