A central theme of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was that Hillary Clinton is someone who, despite being constantly opposed and vilified, keeps getting back up to pursue her single-minded goal of power and domination ("Nominee Clinton seeks to unify Dems as she pivots to general election," July 28).
Ms. Clinton shares this particular attribute with Richard Nixon and Dracula. Voters will need to decide whether such headstrong determination against entrenched resistance is a good thing in our next president.
During her public career, Ms. Clinton has been castigated for leading the attempted government takeover of the health care system as an unelected first lady; for enabling her hound-dog husband to stain the presidency; for carpet-bagging her way into a stint as a U.S. senator; for a dangerously poor judgment as secretary of state; and for peddling herself to almost any domestic or foreign special-interest with a fat checkbook.
That she got a public knock-down for each of these is hardly surprising; that she got up and dusted herself off to move on to the next outrage is hardly admirable.
Voters can choose Ms. Clinton because she is inarguably a woman and is not Donald Trump. Fair enough. But anyone who votes for her because of her public record is not voting for a profile in courage but is voting for a long history of failure, mediocrity, mendacity and avarice.
Jon Ketzner, Cumberland