Posted on 09/18/2015 12:51:12 PM PDT by Steelfish
BUSH FLUNKS GREAT WOMAN QUESTION He wasnt the only one to do so on the $10 question.
By Betsy McCaughey 9.18.15
Republican presidential contenders need to brush up on their American history and the many heroic women who have helped make this country great. At Wednesdays debate, CNNs Jake Tapper went down the line, asking the candidates what woman should be depicted on the $10 bill. At that point, most of the candidates looked like deer caught in the headlights. American women of achievement? They couldnt think of any.
Rand Paul said, Ooh, thats a tough one, but managed to come up with Susan B. Anthony. A good choice. She was a tireless campaigner for womens equal rights, especially the right to vote. Next Marco Rubio said Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon, and Ted Cruz quickly latched on to that answer.
It was all down hill after that. Ben Carson nominated his mother, a sweet gesture and a chance for him to reiterate his humble upbringing, but it also showed a lack of appreciation or knowledge of what women have done as leaders in this country. Same goes for Mike Huckabee, who proposed his wife.
Then came the worst. Jeb Bush proposed Margaret Thatcher. What? Imagine the Brits printing an American Dolley Madison or Eleanor Roosevelt on their pound notes. He couldnt think of one American woman?
How about Molly Pitcher, the Revolutionary War heroine who brought water to the parched American soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth and then replaced her fallen husband on the battlefield.
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That's what Ted Cruz said.
CRUZ: Well, I wouldn't change the $10 bill, I'd change the $20. I'd take Jackson off and I'd leave Alexander Hamilton right where he is as one of our Founding Fathers.
That would’ve been my answer. Leave it alone. They just follow the media’s lead like sheep.
Hell he could have picked Dolly Parton, but that would have been a Bust.................
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Dumb question. There are none that should be on the $10.
This is all about placating pc bullcrap.
You start playing the game you legitimize their bullcrap.
YUP!!!!
Policies designed to allow industry to create good jobs, to keep jobs in the U.S. and to prevent them being given to foreigners (via H-1B visas) would be a lot more welcome than bogus changes to the pictures on our currency!!!!
Why has no one mentioned Abigail Adams?
However, I would much rather keep our currency the way it is than even putting her picture on a bill!!! Or that more contemporary admirable candidate, Ronda Rousey’s!!!!
I’m sure that a woman like Ronda Rousey would see what BS it is to change the pictures on our currency for PC reasons!!!!
“Why has noone mentioned Abigail Adams?”
Chris Christie did.
I am a woman, but I am sick and tired of this feminist nonsense.
Tired of this PC crap. Let’s get Ma Barker on the sawbuck. She’s strong, matriarchal and could handle a machinegun.
It’s odd how few actual matriarchs, ie. grandmothers, are supporters of what feminists call ‘matriarchy’.
Nothing odd about it to me; we grannies know what is important for children and what is important in relationships between men and women.
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