I don't trust her because she's a woman. I trust her because, of all the most viable candidates, her politics are most in line with mine. I also think she's smart. And I don't think she's any more of a liar than any politician. That's an easy-out characterization that people like to use because she's smart and consequently threatening.

What gives me pause about her is that I agree she's very much a Washington insider. She's also what's known as a "corporate Democrat," meaning she's as vulnerable to the influences of special interests and lobbyists as most Republicans are. But I still think she's an increasingly viable candidate, and I'll vote for her over one of the Republicans any day. Ron Paul would be nice, but he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning any nomination. Hillary Clinton does.