More on Hillary's unelectability

Dave Nalle sees parallels between Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton:

The impending demise of Katie Couric as a news anchor may be a significant augury of things to come for Hillary Clinton. Just like Katie, lots of people say they like her, but when push comes to shove will thy actually vote for her, or will they opt for someone who looks more like the last 42 presidents have? Admittedly, Hillary isn't as cute and perky as Katie, but is being a scary battleaxe a plus or a minus? Take note that the respected and supremely qualified Barbara Walters hasn't been able to get off of morning TV and into an anchor slot despite trying her hardest for years and being the mother of all battleaxes.

Newsbabes do seem to have some viability in cable news, but perhaps the audience there expects more entertainment than hard news, and even those networks have traditional male anchors about whom the newsbabes orbit like decorative lesser planets. This argues for a certain sexism in the management of the news media, or at least in the attitudes of the audience, but it's a passive preference and not something which can be easily overcome. If the same principle applies in the presidential election, two years isn't enough time to educate the electorate out of attitudes which have developed through generations of tradition.

It's certainly not something to be proud of, but it may well be the case that the people of the US are no more ready for a female president than they are for a female news anchor. No amount of accusations of sexism and condemnations of their backwards attitudes will influence the results once the votes are counted. Election results are almost as indisputable as Nielsen ratings.

I wonder if he is right?