Pitch.
The British Left still grumps about “Thatcherism” 30 years later.
talking with a female in my family tonight who is a small business owner and a republican (of the country club variety)-she didn’t like Bachmann because she feels she is too “right wing religious”. whatever.
Men also struggle to get to the very top in politics. There are very few positions there and lots of people fighting for them.
The moderator’s head would explode if I posted what I was thinking about the “being on top” thing. Maybe the voting machines are rigged or something?
I am so sick of these social science bean counters.
I’m not sure you will want to hear the truth but here go’s.
Women are not natural leaders. They are weak compared to men and this is natures way. This is not to degrade women in any way as they have capabilities not found in men. Leadership is simply not their biological role.
This is backed up by thousands of years of human history.
It is also the reason that it is highly unlikely that Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin or even Hilary Clinton had or have any real chance of being elected President of the United States. Of the three Hilary probably had the best chance and I will elaborate only by saying it’s not presidential to look hot in a bikini!
For years I had always stated that America would elect a black male president before electing the first woman president. I was right.
After how badly this first experiment has gone, I wonder about the typical white man and his intention in the voting booth.
And I wonder if he’d tell his wife that he will never vote for another candidate based upon race, sex or religion... ever again.
I’d vote for Palin in a heartbeat but liberals defeated my last opportunity to put her in office.
Too many women freak out at social conservative female candidates. I heard far too many people say stuff like, “Sarah Palin isn’t what women haven’t been waiting for” because she’s Pro-Life, etc.
Notice how NOW and all of the feminist organizations stood silent while their left-wing compatriots trash Palin and Bachmann in incredibly sexist ways, including the ad nauseum, “How could a President Palin care for her special needs son?”
Palin's day isn't done. She might've tried her hand had she not run with McCain and finished a term or two as governor. 2016 or even 2020 isn't too far off.
There's a certain level of charisma required and that day will come even in the United States. I will say, we'd have been better off with Hillary than Obama and I'm thankful John McCain didn't win.
There are lots of men who run for president who haven't a hope in hell and many more who never run even if they were successful governors. I don't make much of the "glass ceiling" idea in 2011.
Bachmann's problem is she has no record of executive accomplishment. If she were running as governor or former governor of MN, say in Pawlenty's place, it'd have been another ballgame. It's good and healthy that she's running, however.
We may yet see another "historic" presidential ticket in 2012 but I expect Obama to be reelected.
For the same reason men do, and, BTW, all women do not think alike, as the title implies.
Politics is a struggle (doh!) and there are many more men in politics.
TEA for Three and Three for TEA.
Both those two women are "top" enough for anyone.
It will take time, but the election of a woman to President will happen. It will also remain infrequent.
“Why do women still struggle to get to the very top in politics?”
Maybe because not enough women vote for other women. Do not women make up the majority of voters?
Ask Sarah Palin this question.
She’s the one who quit.