Common sense would say that you vote for a person because you agree with them. Not because they are of the same sex. All I got from reading that post is exactly that. They are voting for McCain’Palin because she is a woman. Now granted a vote is a vote and we need everyone one of them and I will be happy to take those votes. But gimme a break, don’t vote for someone because of gender or race. Vote for someone because you agree with them for crying out loud.
IMO, most of them are not voting the McCain/Palin ticket because McCain picked a woman. They are voting for McCain because it is a vote against Obama. The female pick for VP, just made the medicine go down smoother.
We need a devastating defeat of Obama...so he wont show his face in presidential politics again.
These women are angry at the way Barack and his thugs strong-armed the nomination away from Hillary. They all turned on Hillary and weren’t respectful towards her.
Hillary had the most votes. Obama and his thugs stole it.
Additionally, Obama was very condescending to Hillary in the debates. It was clear to me that he doesn’t have much respect for women.
They have a right to be bitter.
Plenty of people will vote for OHB simply because he’s black.
A few years ago I was reading an FR print out about Algore on the park and ride bus. The lady setting next to me was blathering on about Clinton but she didn’t really like gore. I said my brother was thinking about voting for Alan Keyes. She got all excited and said if he were on the ballot she would vote for him....... appearance is so much. Other than that he was black she didn’t know anything about him.
Some of them will come to be Repubs. They need someone to follow and cheer for in the coming days. They are probably like us and follow politics closely. Actually I thought Hillary was treated very bad too by both the media and the Dems.
“But gimme a break, don’t vote for someone because of gender or race. Vote for someone because you agree with them for crying out loud.”
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I agree totally with the sentiment but my thought is that representative government is based on the idea that honest people will put forth their true convictions and invite the voters to either accept or reject them. Far too often today the reverse is true, the candidates try to anticipate what the voters will support and then they claim to believe in that. I think the Republicans are more honest than the Democrats in this respect but there are very few in either party who step up and say this is what I am about and if you don’t like it say so and I will go back to what I was doing before. If we had more honest candidates we might have more honest voting.