In a recent post here on AT, Leesa Donner describes how the Clinton candidacy is thought to offer women a chance to even the score.  But will a President Clinton really do that?  She certainly has no record – only a stream of rhetoric – as a champion of women.

With all the brouhaha going on about what Donald Trump said 15 years ago in a private conversation (dredged up by the DNC in an attempt to bolster a weak platform), we – including mothers and fathers and grandparents and especially young women – should not lose sight of the potential harm to be done if Hillary Clinton wins this one.  (Note: We should discount the women who have come forward with accusations that he fondled them.  These women have no proof whatsoever – no photos, no video, no audio, no supporting individuals.)

Why is the DNC directing all of the anti-Trump vitriol to influence women?  Why is it so important to "even the score"?  We must balance such an emotional response to such ideas against a realistic look at the potential harm of a Clinton presidency.

Think it through before voting.  It would be bad enough that young people are exposed to Clinton's deplorable personal faults.  It will be much more damaging for our children, who will all too soon be young people – some with new families – that they will have to live with her negative policies.  If she is elected, these young adults will live with fewer job opportunities; higher taxes and impoverishing inflation; forced dependence on government; more burdensome regulation and restrictions from unfeeling bureaucratic operatives; loss of legal standing and constitutional protections; a Supreme Court that ignores or revises the Constitution; loss of businesses to foreign countries; and, finally but acutely important, more expensive and less effective health care with her promised extension of Obamacare.

Are these legacies we want to pass to our children?  Do we vote with our emotions or with our good sense?  Is it really that important to "even the score"?

Walt is a retired computer systems consultant.  He lives with his wife in a bastion of liberalism – the San Francisco Bay Area.  He has two sons, three grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter and hopes they can look forward to a great America.