Posted on 11/18/2025 6:24:17 PM PST by Rummyfan
"How do we squash the prejudice against female presidential nominees, which has always been with us, but became even worse after Kamala Harris got whomped by Donald Trump?"
Asks Gail Collins in a column with a title that asks a different question, "Where, oh Where, Will the First Female President Come From?"
Maybe it would be better to ask this other question, my question: When will we ever get to evaluate a female presidential candidate as just another presidential candidate? We've been nudged too many times to pick the woman because she is a woman. It makes people wary. I mean, really, why was Kamala Harris foisted on us?
So, yeah, she got "whomped." I'm collecting these colorful words that make losing seem violent but also fun. I'm thinking of George W. Bush taking what he called a "thumping" in the 2006 midterms, and Obama, after the 2010 midterms, saying he'd experienced "a shellacking."
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Women won’t vote for sensible and talented women. It’s weird. They endorse irrational and stupid people, every time. (By large)
Kristi Noem?
Or Megyn Kelly.
Maybe wait a while?
Bkmk
The Republican Party and Independent Party have many talented women I would vote for. The Democrat party has none. The women of the democrat party are mostly the most extreme leftists of all. They are ineluctable. Case in point is Jasmine Crockett of Texas and all of the squad.
I can think of one exception, Jeane Kirkpatrick. She served as ambassador to the UN from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan. She was a fearless defender of the United States and its Constitution. She was a great lady when the democrat party party was the honorable opposition.
Anna Paulina Luna I can vote for.
Tulsi Gabbard?
If I remember correctly, Jeanne Kilpatrick was treated like the Devil Incarnate by the Democrats back then - just like every other Republican since Eisenhower.
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