first of all, I'm not knocking women. I love women. but this story is an attempt to suggest subconsciously to undecided voters than a republican vote is an anti-woman vote. there is some truly staggering irony here.
admitting to this line of illogic is to ignore the preeminence in the republican party of palin, haley, whitman, fiorina, and o'donnell (to name a few). and ironically, the liberal/MSM whisper campaign is that all of these female republican superstars are dumb, defective, whackos, or all three. the liberal argument against these women is
overtly and
aggressively anti-woman, but the libs get a pass.
and blindly voting for members of congress based solely upon, er, what they have between their legs, as opposed to what they have between their ears, is how we wound up with this semi-fascist congress in the first place. when the only women running are feminist ideologues, and you blindly vote for women, ideologues is what you get. and of course that effect is, in turn, amplified, because liberal men are a bunch of whimpering beta-males, and obediently do whatever nancy pelosi tells them to do.
Elections are likely to trim number of women in Congress
GLENWOOD, Ark. — Blanche Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1992, a time when women gained so much ground in the House and Senate that it was dubbed the "Year of the Woman."
Now, the Arkansas senator, who faces Republican John Boozman in November, is fighting for her political life in what could wind up being called the Year of the Setback.
The prospects for female congressional candidates have been hurt by a combination of a tough political landscape for Democrats — women in Congress are disproportionately Democratic— and the nation's economic troubles. Hard times historically have made voters more risk-averse and less willing to consider voting for female candidates.
Bottom line: Independent analysts predict that the number of women in Congress — currently 56 Democrats and 17 Republicans in the House, and 13 Democrats and four Republicans in the Senate — will decline for the first time in three decades. The drop would come two years after a string of breakthroughs, when Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first woman to vie seriously for the Democratic presidential nod, Sarah Palin the first woman nominated for national office by the GOP and Democrat Nancy Pelosi the first woman elected speaker of the House.
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