Hillary Clinton, shown here in Nevada, is the best ballot choice on Super Tuesday. (Isaac Brekken/The New York Times)The best reason to vote for Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday is not the weakness of her opponents – especially those on the Republican ballot. Rather, it’s her demonstrated strengths, her experience and her heart.
What’s more, she represents Middle America in far more ways than just being a champion of middle class values with proposals for raising the minimum wage, reining in Wall Street, furthering affordable health care, guiding us back to sensible gun rules, improving education and keeping us safe in an ever-more-complex world.
But there’s more. In today’s America, where the Republican Party has lost its soul to a wing-nut base that seems star-struck by a reality-show narcissist and Bible-thumping snake-oil salesmen, Clinton is the only choice – not just for moderate and pragmatic Democrats, but also for moderate and pragmatic Republicans who don’t understand why the GOP no longer looks or sounds like the party of Ronald Reagan they once knew and loved.
As Clinton rightly and often says, she can get things done. She understands the art of civil conversation, negotiation and compromise. In short, she understands leadership.
“I am not interested in ideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in real life,” Clinton recently said in Iowa.