Posted on 10/27/2010 4:36:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The female candidates, commentators and influencers who matter--and provoke chatter--most.
The midterm elections are a week away, and this year an overwhelming number of female candidates, commentators and influencers are commanding the headlines, brashly driving the conversation and laboring to deliver who will control the Senate, the House and the future direction of the country.
The forces that put us in this position come in the form of various political baronesses and upstarts that make up this Top 25 Power Women of Elections 2010. A great many of these mighty women appear on Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, including Tea Party queenmaker Sarah Palin, First Lady Michelle Obama and Rachel Maddow, a cable news anchor with a beef against "extremists" in politics.
Yet the polarizing are, in some ways, those who matter most. Or at least provoke chatter most. Consider Mama Grizzly Sharron Angle, clawing at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's seat from Nevada and whose challenge to the incumbent is to "man up." Or contender for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, whose open ignorance or misreading of the First Amendment’s guarantee of separation of church and state--"You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"--caused a 10-alarm fire on the airwaves and Internet.
Or Maureen Dowd, who coined the phrase "Mean Girls" of the midterms (talking about the Tea Party sorority), saying that they have replaced "Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold." Or the California governor's race, where Republican Meg Whitman was labeled a "whore" by her Democratic challenger's aide.
The Top 25 Most Powerful Women Of The Midterm Elections To rank this list of powerful women, we looked at both their reach--in terms of constituency and audience size--and buzz--Google searches...
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Well, I’m one mama grizzly who is truly glad she is so beautiful. Means the creepy liberals can’t be as cruel as they usually are...LOL!
Hey, Meghan, I guess I don't see it either.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Funny, just like Obama omits "Creator," the National Archives somehow omits the word "separation."
Queen Elizabeth
Catherine the Great
Queen Victoria
Need I go on?
Do not adjust your computer. You are finding out what it means to get flamed. Your misogyny makes you quite out of place in American society. If you were to go to such male dominated societies as Saudi Arabia where women are treated like cattle, your words would not raise a blink. Of course, these societies do not have the Christian influence we do.
Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
She is so pretty, and as pretty inside as out.
My sentiments exactly!
Holy cow, the rot goes deeper than I thought. I've just had two Socialist foreigners referenced to me as an argument by a self-identifying conservative on a conservative forum. And I'M the one being called out. Jeez.
50 years ago in this country they wouldn't have raised a blink either. That's how the left keeps winning. Any victory they get to stick for more than 30 years becomes sacrosanct and even conservatives will claim it.
I'm just using women in politics as an example for edification. It was once pushed by liberals, oppposed by conservatives and now considered settled and sacrosanct by both sides.
Now we're battling the left on gay marriage just two generations later which would've been unimaginable just back in the 70s. And you watch, 30 years from now, supposed conservatives will be flaming those still opposed to gay marriage as knuckle dragging, troglodytic radicals.
I guess it took more than 30 years to get Galatians 3:28 accepted by our culture. However, the gay issue is quite clear in the Bible. They will have to eliminate the Bible from our culture to make gay marriage mainstream. The gay agenda is receiving a mounting opposition because of what it means for the institution of marriage and children. One thing for sure is it is a part of the Marxist agenda to make equal all human institutions and have ultimate control of the individual. This agenda is soon going to find itself on the ash heap of history.
Even in Forbes, the lack of civic understanding exposes itself.
well, they got number 1 right
Oh great. Leave it to you to make Sal look fat.
So, now she’s tall? Make up your mind, T!
Oops, sorry I forgot to ping you for the last post, onyx.
In my opinion, all of my friends are really cool, and that includes you, FRiend.
Now, I suppose you deny that they fitted that description.
Would be nice if you read what you are posting to instead of blabbering like you are.
Seems you favor the Buck O'Fama types simply because they are male... Better schedule your personal Psychological Crisis Intervention session for Tuesday at the latest!
The post where you referenced two Socialist foreign women was you first post to me on this thread. I think it's you who is having trouble following along.
Now did you think mentioning two Socialists would make some case? Or did you not know their politics or did you think I didn't know their politics? Which is it?
Your knowledge of that is not as widespread as we would like. By that I mean far too many are not aware of the stealth and duplicity by which the Marxists have been operating in this country for over 100 years. However, I think they and you have overestimated both the reach and the impact of the matriarchy you describe.
America is certainly not a matriarchy now nor is it ever likely to be. The fact of strong women in the spotlight at the moment is just circumstance rather than an indication of sociological change.
Your ‘labels’ leave much to be desired...
David Ben-Gurion certainly would have disagreed with you - She was the ‘Iron Lady’ before Thatcher was too. She kept all options - including nuclear - actively on the table without flinching. She had as her goal the desire for Israel to not be needing of sympathy for their future.
Oh, I was around and fully aware of her and her policies back in 1956 when she became Foreign Minister and beyond.
As far as Gandhi, different persona, different culture, different situation. Strong point was her statesmanship.
Now, you seem to want to equate these women to the wimpy likes of Michelle Obama and Rachel Maddow?
Geesh... The rankings were not to liberal and conservative.
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