Posted on 09/18/2015 12:51:12 PM PDT by Steelfish
BUSH FLUNKS ‘GREAT WOMAN’ QUESTION He wasn’t 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 Wednesday’s debate, CNN’s 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 couldn’t think of any.
Rand Paul said, “Ooh, that’s a tough one,” but managed to come up with Susan B. Anthony. A good choice. She was a tireless campaigner for women’s 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 couldn’t 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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I’ll give JEB a pass on this stupid question.
He did. I love Thatcher but she belongs to another country. I don’t really care when candidates flunk this sort of question. Big deal. He tried. There is no policy issue involved.
Steelfish flunks “Link Posting 101.”
Jeb was trying to think of a solid conservative woman. However his answer is a Globalist answer, and reveals his agenda. Maggie was great, but she was a conservative Brit, not American.
The real answer is to leave the $10.00 bill alone and leave Alexander Hamilton there. He earned that place of honor more than anyone else, male or female. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury, established our currency, and figured out a way to manage our national debt in a way that made us the world’s most credit worthy nation even though we were brand new, with a brand new form of government, backward, and heavily in debt from the Revolutionary War. That starkly contrasts with the royal French government that was in just as much of a debt, couldn’t figure out now to deal with it, and ended up being deposed by the French Revolution. IOW it’s impossible to find anyone better to place on that bill. Indeed, the traitor Obola’s trying to remove him from the bill in just another effort to degrade and destroy our noble history
LOL I usually read the source first. didn’t this time...
http://spectator.org/articles/64105/bush-flunks-%E2%80%98great-woman%E2%80%99-question
MARGARET THATCHER?
I wonder whose side Jeb would have been on during the Revolutionary War?
I think he makes a great woman! ... Oh, that wasn’t the question?
And no one said Harriet Tubman?
She should be on the $10 bill. That’s a winner and no one can debate it. You know the rat debate is going to have the same question and each candidate will try to outdo the other one.
Ted Cruz should have said Margaret Sanger. Then go into her accomplishments. That would have been great.
PHOOEY!!!!
The best answer would have been “I’d rather keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill where he belongs”.
Agreed.
I always said that I could not vote for anyone that could not answer the pertinent and topical question “What kind of tree would you be”.
The only woman that should be on the $10 bill is Alexander Hamilton’s wife or mother, along with him, if a woman needs to now somehow be on the $10 bill. And if that’s going to happen, I would like it to be printed on that bill, and all bills, ‘Brought to You by the Patriarchy’.
How did we ever survive with only men on our paper currency?
I suppose Bertha Butt is out of the question.
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