Women's Right to Vote, the Beginning of the End for America?

Chico Enterprise Record ^ | 3/29/09 | OneVike

[OneVike]

From the day the founding Fathers risked their liberty and life by signing the Declaration of Independence, there has been those who have wanted to sink this great ship called the United States of America. Well 143 years later the good ship America took a torpedo hit that at the time seemed like just another glancing blow. What many still consider the greatest step forward in equality for the sexes, was more then just a glancing blow however. It was in fact a deadly strike that entered the very heart of the ship and has been smoldering since. The damage caused by the 19th amendment was slow in its destruction, but after almost 100 years we can now see how complete the destruction really was.

[coop71]

I’m with you 100%.

[metmom]

Well, folksies! It’s been a fun thread. Maybe it’s true. So, I propose next time Freeper women hear how we should get out and vote and not to stay home — well, women shouldn’t vote.

I didn't realize that so many men were so interested in losing so many conservative votes in the metmom household.

[fanfan]

69% of FReepers have no children?

That doesn’t seem right.

[HollyB]

What a shame that Free Republic has to receive such negative publicity because of this thread.

[fanfan]

Absolutely.

‘Certain people’ are trying to divide us.

We can’t allow it.

[HollyB]

69% of FReepers have no children?

That doesn’t seem right

**** Didn’t sound right to me either, especially if 69% are over 35 years old.

[HungarianGypsy]

Would that be no children at all or no children in household. That does sound odd, indeed. But, while not half, the female question proves a large percentage.

[fanfan]

I should have said ‘shouldn’t’ allow it.

[ansel12]

“Yes, and if we had a presidential candidate, or *gasp* a President who refused to produce his original birth certificate, and school records, the MSM would be all over that too. /sarc”

---

President Obama is your president?

[fanfan]

Strange numbers, I agree.

Let ‘em try to make us feel defensive.
It won't work.

[x]

Ann Coulter has said that if women couldn’t vote, we’d never see a Democrat in the White House again.

No political party is going to stop competing like that. They go where the votes are. If women couldn't vote you'd see a different kind of Democrat Party, more Andrew Jackson and less John Kerry.

[OneVike]

Did you even read the article? If you did you would see I actually blame men for abdicating their God given authority and thus we ended up with what we have.

As for my wife just giving up her right and not voting, then I guess you suggest that Ann Coulter do the same. That is what Ann said she would do also if we could repeal the 19th amendment. There are many very logical, rational, unemotional women, who agree with this. It is not just a bunch of knuckle dragging neanderthals that think this way.

As for the Taliban and Muslim Middle Eastern societies argument, go back to a comment I made earlier about that idiotic statement. You are getting a little emotional in your defense of your right to vote.

Please do me a favor and go read the whole article before you accuse me of things I did not write.

[OneVike]

If women couldn't vote you'd see a different kind of Democrat Party, more Andrew Jackson and less John Kerry.

And your point? I think that would be a very good thing.

Maybe I misunderstand the point you are trying to make.

I mean would that be a bad thing to you?

[metmom]

As for my wife just giving up her right and not voting, then I guess you suggest that Ann Coulter do the same.

Why should I give up my right to vote? I'm not one of the females who thinks I should.

All those females who think that women shouldn't have the right to vote are hypocrites if they continue to vote.

You are getting a little emotional in your defense of your right to vote.

No, I'm not. Men just like to accuse women of that so that they can feel some sense of intellectual superiority.

The difference is that women think with the brains in their head. Men who think with their brains in other parts of their anatomy, will always disparage women and look at them as objects to be controlled.

[HollyB]

Metmom, just read his web page. He talks about how he voted with emotion instead of with logic when he was a Democrat. I suppose because he once voted with emotion, he assumes that is what everyone else is doing.

[fanfan]

President Obama is your president?

In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is the only Super power in the world right now.

Your President is the world's President, and it's not looking too promising right now.

Your Pres__ent 0bama will 'change' everyone's lives.

What's with the chip on your shoulder anyway?

[x]

Maybe I misunderstand the point you are trying to make.

My point was that Coulter's comment -- "if women couldn’t vote, we’d never see a Democrat in the White House again" -- wasn't very well thought out and couldn't literally be true.

Of course it was meant more as a one-liner, but if you take it seriously it doesn't reflect how parties actually behave most of the time.

About your controversy: you can say that giving women the vote made things worse and debased the electorate.

But if one gives a vote to all adult males, one can't rightly deprive equally or unqualified adult females of the same right.

To take the vote away from this or that group creates a precedent for disenfranchising one's own group.

I'm not uncomfortable with a widely distributed franchise. It may make for some problems, but taking the vote away from people would probably be worse.

[OneVike]

I do not even know you and vise verse, yet you come off as if I know something about you that would make me want to disparage you. I am sure you are logical and very good at making important decisions. However, the fact remains that if we stepped back to 1920,(Please read that again), we would not have the benefit of knowing what we do now.

You mean to tell me that if denying women the right to vote would have kept us from getting to here NOW, you would still want the 19th amendment to pass?

Because I truly would have given up my right to vote when I was 18 if it meant that Carter, Clinton, and Obama never got elected. I realize that it is very difficult to step back and believe things would be better if you were never allowed something you now hold dearly.

I do not wish to disparage women, believe me I owe a lot of good things in my life to strong women who helped raise me properly. I also said it would be easier to hold back the rising waters of the Red River then it would be to repeal any amendment. As I asked, did you read the whole article, or just the paragraph here on FR?

[OneVike]

I never ever said I wanted to take away your right to vote. You have it, why would I do that? The men now are as emotional unbalanced as the women who vote liberal. It really would not advance anything at this point.

I did say it never should have been passed, because then we would not have all these 88 years of feminizing the electorate and politicians.

People Please read the whole article!

[ansel12]

“Yes, and if we had a presidential candidate, or *gasp* a President

I thought that you were a foreigner and now I find out that you are an American and that Obama is your president, I was surprised is all.