I don't think all republicans hate immigrants and gays or that 17-29 year olds know enough about what it takes for a family to survive in the real world, the struggle of aging, or living with choices gone wrong. Making blanket statements about a group of people doesn't help to win me over to the democratic party. Its the same type of actions that the republican party participate in, just different rhetoric. To use 17-29 year olds as an enticement for me to change doesn't help much either, at 53 I'm in a different place with different concerns (I'm also more likely to vote). What I want to hear about is not the complaints and the sniping but the solutions that the democratic party is presenting. I, as an American citizen, not a woman, am now very interested in Hillary Clinton. She is making an attempt to rise above the petty party head slapping and really address some issues, offering solutions. If the party as a whole could follow her lead, I would feel so much more confident about voting for her. Its not her I'm worried about. I think she can do the job. Its the childishness that the party gets bogged down with that makes me hesitate.
Martha