Hillary’s near tears worked
Janice Shaw Crouse
Conventional wisdom says that a woman should never cry in the workplace, but I have seen incompetent staffers run to the boss in tears … and get another chance. Professional women are told that they should get tough enough to never break down in the office under any circumstance. This week, though, the whole nation saw presidential candidate Hillary Clinton get all teary-eyed as she talked about why she is running for president and how much she fears that America might go backward.
There was talk that Hillary was losing it, that she didn’t have Margaret Thatcher’s steely composure. Analysts said that if she couldn’t handle the tough schedule of a campaign, she would not be able to handle the pressure of the presidency. When the polls continued to show her campaign in a free fall, pundits openly discussed the possibility that she would drop out of the campaign. She spent several hours floundering and lashing out. Her campaign began bragging (in liberal New Hampshire) that her abortion record was better than Obama’s. She sent Bill out to do the heavy lifting. He attacked Obama’s account of his record, calling it a “fairy tale.” Then, she executed a stunning “about face” with her heart-to-heart with the girlfriends.
Hillary’s near tears worked. A woman who was in that meeting broke down in tears as she described for a television interviewer her emotional response to Hillary’s moment of humanity. On voting day, women in New Hampshire turned out to support their sister in distress; she got 46 percent of their vote (which was nearly 60 percent of the turnout). But aside from the vote tally, she obviously learned that cold logic will only take you so far. She realized that to go the distance takes “heart.”
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