LETTER: Female candidates don’t have to be perfect
Elizabeth Warren. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP)
I’d like to offer an independent voter’s comments regarding Susan Estrich’s Tuesday commentary, “Why must a female candidate be perfect?”
Ms. Estrich’s premise regarding Sen. Elizabeth Warren is wrong. A candidate needs to be “likable,” not perfect — and Warren is anything but likable. She is crass, brash and rude. Ms. Estrich should remember that Hillary Clinton was smug, curt and unlikeable — hence, she lost.
I recommend Ms. Estrich scramble her female candidate viewpoints and preface them with “likability” first. Then maybe she’ll have a cogent argument regarding female candidates instead of an outmoded point of view.
