Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Have Control Over Her Supporters

If Democratic Party ever had the solid support of 18 million women in their rank and file, no Bush could have ever won previous elections - Senior or Junior.

A significant portion of Hillary Clinton's so-called supporters are not admirers of the Clintons.

They were supporters of an ideal - the woman's rights. And they came together to see the first woman president installed in the White House.

As a man, I got a taste of their feelings of alienation at an early stage in my career. I still remember one of my job interviews. The interviewer in many ways made it known to me that she was not comfortable to have a male in her team as her assistant.

Remember, it was not a job restricted to women. It was a publishing-related job. At the end of the interview, I felt that she is uncomfortable with males and did not find it a healthy environment for working.

Many months later, I overheard her speaking in a writer's conference - most of her speech was devoted to the role of women in a male dominated world. Then I realized that she might have been talking from the background of some undesirable experience from a male or males.

I soon got registered with some temp agencies and forgot about that discriminatory episode. I don't believe in litigious pursuits.

Also, ninety-nine percent of women I had to associate with were not like that.

But the experience of Hillary Clinton has given those women with feelings of alienation in a man-dominated world another shot in the arms.

So, I was a bit surprised to hear ABC reporters blaming Hillary Clinton for not talking forcefully!

The truth is even if Hillary is willing to cut her neck and present it to DNC in a platter, she is unable to influence a significant portion of her so-called supporters.

Because those die-hard women supporters' loyalty is not to a person. Their loyalty is to an ideal. And not all of them belong Democratic party.

Again, it has to be stressed that if Democratic candidates ever had that 18 million support among females, Republicans would never have set foot on the White House lawns for half-a-century.

Democratic party made the mistake of not giving the VP post to another woman in the place of Hillary to get that loyalty back.

Blaming Hillary for everything won't solve this lack of foresight on the part of the Democratic party bosses. Especially since she has already moved out of the way.

Rather than wasting time attacking Clintons, it is high time that other women leaders of the Democratic party come together and assure those alienated women that the party stands for their concerns too.

Remember, those women came together for the sake of an ideal without any prodding from the party. Remember, this would not have been the case if a woman had been a contender on the Republican side too.

PLEASE NOTE:
This article was originally published before Sarah Palin came on the scene. Now the Republicans do have a woman contender.