Posted on 10/06/2004 10:52:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
Senator Susan Collins of Maine is shepherding through the Senate the most sweeping reform of the intelligence community in more than 50 years. North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole has been busy shaping the defense appropriations bill and making the case for the war in Iraq on the Senate floor. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas got their plan to beef up air-cargo security passed while Senator Lisa Murkowski champions the need to protect the nation's energy security. All of this has escaped the feminists' notice because these women senators share the stigma of being Republican. But it is striking that in that notorious men's club we call the Senate they are welcome to play in the guys' security-issues sandbox.
Whatever the merits of the national-security proposals advanced by these Republican women, it's clear that they haven't come to Washington to serve in the pink ghetto of so-called women's issues. Rather than confining themselves to right every perceived gender wrong, they obviously see themselves as senators, not merely female senators. Instead of railing against the glass ceilings that allegedly keep women in their place to the alleged delight of men, they've gotten down to work on the most consequential issues we face.
They sure won't get credit for it from the feminist arbiters of relations between the sexes, but on important national-security issues the Republican men in the Senate have told their female colleagues, "After you ladies."
I would personally love to see an E.Dole/J.C. Watts ticket in 2008!
dear lord no elizabeth dole on the ticket. She's horrible.
Liddy Dole was a major-league dud as a Presidential candidate.
Okay, Kay Bailey Hutchinson then...but we gotta run a good woman against Hitlery. Your pick, but I always liked Dole...sorry.
Wait...I know...Ann Coulter!
I didn't say I didn't like Dole, but she turned out to be a disappointment. Kay Bailey Hutchison won't be a nominee for one reason, she's pro-abort (besides, she seems more anxious to run for TX Governor in '06).
We gotta get Ann to the Senate first. ;-)
Well, there's the new Governor of CT, Jodi Rell, but I know very little about her positions. From early reports I hear that Rell is popular and may actually be able to hold the office in '06 despite the Rowland fiasco. The next is HI Gov. Linda Lingle, but she's probably too socially liberal (I'm figuring she may end her career in the Senate). MT Gov. Judy Martz is Conservative, but so beset by problems that she opted out of running for reelection this year. UT Gov. Olene Walker did not survive the primary this year for a full term. As you can see, we don't have much of a farm team (and only Rell and Lingle will be the sole GOP women Governors come January).
True, we don't have much of a bench when it comes to female governors, but we have plenty of quality female conservatives in the House, such as Sue Myrick (NC), Melissa Hart (PA), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Jo Ann Davis (VA), Marylin Musgrave (CO), Ginny Browne-Waite, Katherine Harris and Ileana Ros-Letinen (FL), Anne Northup (KY), Candice Miller (MI), Jo Ann Emerson (MO), Heather Wilson (NM) and Barbara Cubin (WY). And several more conservative women should be elected to the House this year, such as Cathy McMorris (WA), Thelma Drake (VA) and Arlene Wohlgemuth (TX), plus underdogs Bev Kilmer (FL) and Andrea Lane Zinga (IL).
A good PAC to support is the Susan B Anthony List. This is a PAC that recruits and endorses pro-life women candidates. In order for the right to life movement to be more successful politically, it needs to recruit more women candidates. Swing, independent voters are more open to pro-life views when they come from a woman.
Let Marsha Blackburn be the heiress to Bill Frist's Senate seat in 2006.
Given how much she was a thorn in the ass of the TN RINO establishment, they may try to annoint Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker. I supported Corker over Frist in '94, but if the Scumquistites given Corker the thumbs up, I will be anxious to see him defeated. One Lamar! in the Senate is already one too many.
Good idea! Is she well-known in Tennessee?
All the districts in TN are weird thanks to the 'Rat gerrymander. The 7th is a hyper-GOP district meant to corral all the Republicans from West Shelby clear to the wealthy GOP Forest Hill/Oak Hill section of South Nashville and protect Bart Gordon's 6th, John Tanner's 8th and Jim Cooper's 5th districts. Marsha SHOULD be sitting in Gordon's seat, which was shifted eastward, as she is a South Nashville suburbs (Williamson County) pol, and another Memphis-area pol should be in the 7th, but they were disenfranchised when Ed Bryant's seat was sliced and diced (Bryant at least was from halfway between the east and west boundaries in GOP-leaning Jackson). As I said, at least Blackburn and Zach Wamp (Chattanooga) and perhaps Bob Corker (also Chattanooga) will likely run, and on the 'Rat side, definitely Harold Ford, Jr. from Memphis. If Junior is nominated, we'd have to have a fiasco on par with IL for him to win in the general.
I hope Wamp challenges Phil Breseden. The RAt Governor needs to be defeated in 2006. I could see him as a potential Veep.
Gov. Bredesen's approval is sky-high, I believe he even has a majority positive approval from Republicans. Unless he makes a major gaffe, it's unlikely he'll lose reelection. He's also quite smartly steered VERY clear of Kerry, who would only serve to drag him down. I'll still support any Republican who runs against him (because Bredesen broke state laws with regard to election funding in '02 with the aid of a 'Rat hack Attorney-General), but Wamp would probably only get around 40% if he ran.
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