Dont Call Me Sexist Because I Wont Vote for Hillary

By Michael Brown Eight years ago and again four years ago conservative white Americans were told that the reason we did not vote for Barack Obama was because we were racist. Now conservative American men are being told that the reason we are not voting for Hillary Clinton is because we are sexist. As reported in the Huffington Post President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on men to look inside themselves and think about bias if they have any doubt about voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. To the guys out there I want to be honest Obama told a crowd in Columbus Ohio at a Clinton campaign event. You know theres a reason we havent had a woman president before. He added I want every man out there whos voting to kinda look inside yourself and ask yourself if youre having problems with this stuff how much of it is that were just not used to it? When a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard well thats okay. But when a woman suddenly does it suddenly youre all like well whys she doing that?" Liberal film director Michael Moore was even more directstating Its the muscle memory of 10000 years thats in our DNA where weve run the show forever. Next Tuesday possibly ? hopefully ? a woman is going to lead the most powerful country on Earth. In other words the 10000-year reign is over." Well Im sure there are some voters out there both male and female who dont want a woman running our country just as Im sure there were some voters out there in the last two elections who didnt want a black man running our country. But speaking without shame or apology as a white American male my issue is with Hillary Clintons policies and character not her gender just as my issues were with Barack Obamas policies not his skin color. The truth be told I wanted to be able to vote for our nations first black president but I could not. And I would gladly vote for our nations first female president hopefully a modern-day version of a woman like Deborah who led the ancient nation of Israel or another Golda Meir or Margaret Thatcher if I could stand behind her policies and had confidence she could lead. At this very moment had Carly Fiorina or Nikki Haley or Joni Ernst or any other solid conservative woman been running for president against a male liberal Democrat I would vote for any of those women in a heartbeat just as I would vote for Ben Carson or Tim Scott if either of these black leaders were running against a white liberal Democrat. Again that doesnt mean that some people did not vote for Obama because he was black or that some people wont vote for Hillary because shes a woman. I dont deny that for a moment. But at the same time there are some people who will not vote for Donald Trump because hes a male and/or because hes white. Yet it would be utterly ridiculous to state The reason a lot of you wont vote for Trump is because hes a white male." That would be a gross exaggeration totally overlooking Trumps myriad flaws and shortcomings. In the same way it would be a gross exaggeration to say that the main reason a lot of people wont vote for Hillary is because shes a female just as it would be a gross exaggeration to say that skin color was the main reason lots of Americans didnt vote for Obama. Over the last 8 years I have heard from numerous African American callers who did not vote for Obama and their reasons were identical to mine. And in recent months I have heard from numerous female callers who will not vote for Hillary and again there reasons are identical to mine. In fact of all the people with whom I have discussed the elections in the last 8 years in public and in private I have not met a single individual who voted against Obama because of his skin color or is voting against Hillary because of her gender. Not one. Yet I have met many and that is a very large many" who deplore their policies and therefore would not vote for them. Why then cloud the issues with charges of racism and sexism? Or is that yet another ploy straight out of the liberal Democrat playbook? Why cant the issues be the issues? When I started my live daily talk radio show a little over 8 years ago it was right during the presidential primaries and I remember making my first on-the-air political comment which was critical of something Senator McCain had said. A day or two later I took issue with Senator Obama and then did so again a few days after that. Immediately I received a phone call from an African American listener who said to me Why do you always have to bring up race?" When I asked her what she meant she replied All you do is bash Barack Obama." I explained to her that I had only differed with him on the air twice but before that I had differed with John McCain. More importantly I told her that I would gladly vote for Alan Keyes a black leader who ran against Obama in Illinois rather than Obama because race was not the issue for me. I also said that I preferred Sarah Palin to Hillary Clinton since my issue was not gender. Thankfully over the years my listeners have learned that I am anything but racist or sexist and today when a black caller implied that I was racist for taking issue with President Obama other black listeners quickly weighed in saying I was anything but racist and that they too didnt vote for Obama. One of the callers actually said that the woman who implied that I was racist was guilty of racism rather than me. So let us not be distracted from what really matters since the bottom line is simple: Racism and sexism certainly exist in America from every perspective and among every people group but racism and sexism are not the issue in this election. The issues are the issues so lets concentrate on them. And if you tell me that Im blinded my superior status as a white American male Ill encourage you to search your own heart. Perhaps the racism and sexism are on your end not mine