Posted on 11/02/2025 6:24:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Democrats have run women for executive positions before, and it has not worked. And so the question is: Does the electorate have problems voting for women for executive positions? “The outcome of this election is not what we wanted...”
During the No Kings rally, I went to Montclair, N.J., to spend a little time with a member of Congress named Mikie Sherrill. She is one of two Democratic women running for governor in the 2025 cycle. “These two races are the biggest flashing red siren signs for Republicans.” Both women are polling as much as five to seven points ahead of their challengers. “We are optimistic.”
But I talked to a bunch of different people —— “From the great state of New Jersey.” ... and there is an underlying anxiety. Is this anxiety because norms and institutions are being crushed every day? “Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.” “Trump just smoked four more coke boats.” “I hate my opponent.” Or is this anxiety because a lot of people in the Democratic Party feel that the electorate may be more sexist than we know? “She is a really shallow and uneducated person.” “She is like a biracial werewolf.” “Like a vacuous, incompetent female vice president.”
When I saw Mikie Sherrill, what I was struck by was that she was actually a really great speaker, despite the fact that I had read a lot of stuff that said she wasn’t as good a candidate as she clearly was when I saw her.
So I thought: Wow, what I’m reading in the news does not match with what I’m seeing on the ground. It made me think that maybe there was some kind of anti-woman sentiment that was tainting the reporting, that was tainting the way people were seeing these candidates.
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Women don’t understand the term “entry level.” They think it means “stuck in some shit job forever.” When it really means: “get some experience in how things work instead of coming from your PhD program and telling how you think they work.”
One of my favorite movie lines.
Spanberger is running against a black woman. Why are Spanberger’s challenges mentioned, but not Winsome Sears’?
Great movie line.
Yup. Great truth in a movie, a rarity.
Part of the problem is the long-standing insistence on the Left that only a strident, doctrinaire feminist counts as a “woman”. Note the treatment accorded Sarah Palin and the comic (now, it was infuriating at the time) insistence that despite bearing five children she was not a woman. Compare the similar treatment accorded Winsome Sears now. If you’re going to set stupid standards you get stupid results.
These twits can’t define what a woman is but complain women are unfairly judged. They are the embodiment of the reason sane people won’t vote for such trash candidates.
Actually, I am seeing two names. So it appears that it took 2 female brains to compose this garbage article.
Yep
That’s why I’m convinced republicans will have the first woman president. We don’t get into the first nonsense. Democrats are obsessed over being first instead of choosing a qualified woman.
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