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Why Mitt is gaining support among women
National Review ^ | 10/18/2012 | Michael Barone

Posted on 10/18/2012 6:48:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/18/2012 6:49:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

IMO, young woman are seeing him as a great parent and older women as a great husband. Just sayin.


2 posted on 10/18/2012 6:57:37 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just find it so “fascinating” that all the ‘women’s rights’ people allow the Democrats to define women by and reduce them down to their ‘lady parts’. Evidently, per the Dems and Obama, women think with those parts, vote with those parts, and are too dumb to make decisions about and take care of those parts themselves. If that isn’t demeaning in the most humiliating, degrading and sexist way, I don’t know what is.


3 posted on 10/18/2012 6:59:32 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: SeekAndFind

I was very taken in that he actually did missionary work. These are good, hardworking people....a fine example.


4 posted on 10/18/2012 7:00:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Binders comment has no traction, just like the Big Bird “meme” the libs attempted.


5 posted on 10/18/2012 7:03:26 AM PDT by RochesterNYconservative (ROMNEY/RYAN 20121)
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To: SeekAndFind

What young woman today wouldn’t like to have a wise and wealthy dad? What older woman today wouldn’t like to have a man of character and wealth as her husband?


6 posted on 10/18/2012 7:07:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Sacajaweau

In my understanding, men in the Mormon religion are required to serve as missionaries for two years (I presume there are exceptions but not many) and that women may volunteer to be missionaries but are not required to go. My Mormon nephew spent two years in Italy. My niece’s husband spent two years in Japan. The travel (IIRC) is paid by the church but the living conditions during that time are quite spartan.

The typical time men do this is around their college years and it often means they get their degrees at an older age.

That’s not to take away from Romney for doing mission work but it was probably not entirely his choice.


7 posted on 10/18/2012 7:11:38 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: RochesterNYconservative
The Binders comment has no traction, just like the Big Bird “meme” the libs attempted.

It's very interesting to watch how these memes develop in social media, like Facebook and Twitter.

The liberals get all giddy and post these things back and forth among themselves and wait for them to take off and become huge.

Then the meme just fades away because nobody outside of the hardcore leftist boobs cares about their latest attempt to sway outsiders.

Nobody really got the point of the Binder thing. I still don't. The world gave it a collective shrug.

Big Bird was worse for them in that it turned around and made the left look like idiots, worrying about puppets when this Administration is spiraling into a shithole, economically and diplomatically.

8 posted on 10/18/2012 7:12:05 AM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it is even simpler than the article suggests.

Obama and the MSM painted a false picture of Mitt Romney.
People watched the first debate and determined that they’ve been lied to about Romney.


9 posted on 10/18/2012 7:13:43 AM PDT by kidd
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To: SeekAndFind

Most women aren’t stupid (except the NOW liberal type), simply it’s all about the economy and jobs.

They see gas & heating costs rise, their college educated kids unable to find a decent job strapped with huge student loans, women and their husbands are loosing their jobs...it’s not about free birth control, free abortions and free condoms.

Obama’s adviser’s are living in a 70’s fog.


10 posted on 10/18/2012 7:15:54 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MissMagnolia

Michelle Malkin had a great line on Fox and Friends this morn....”Women need to think with their lady smarts NOT their lady parts”


11 posted on 10/18/2012 7:20:00 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: OrangeHoof

Encouraged....not mandatory....


12 posted on 10/18/2012 7:20:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: SeekAndFind

This separating into groups when it comes to voting is wrong! They don’t want voters to zero in on what/who is good for America. If voters, young/old, male/female, all colors looked at a candidate as ‘are they good for America?’ - then they realize they would be good for them, also.


13 posted on 10/18/2012 7:21:49 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: MissMagnolia

Something else I find fascinating is that the slogan for single issue pro-choice women voters is “government should keep their hands off my ‘lady parts’ “.

At the same time, these are the strongest proponents for Obamacare which has the government “put its hands” on every part of everyone - man, woman and Lady Gaga.

This is a piece Romney should hit - hard.


14 posted on 10/18/2012 7:24:34 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (The Left blaming Jim Lehrer for the debate is like blaming Liencoln's assassination on the play.i of)
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>> I was very taken in that he actually did missionary work <<

I know what you mean. He's a good man for that work and for many other admirable deeds.

On the other hand, when FR's little band of hateful Mormon-bashers make an appearance on this thread, they'll probably go bonkers to learn you that you've been taken in!

15 posted on 10/18/2012 7:29:07 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: dead

I heard the debate live, and didn’t even notice that “binders full of women” was a slightly odd business-speak turn of phrase.

I’m supposing some puerile leftists with odd sexual proclivities thought it was a double entendre and started t(w)ittering about it, resulting in a “meme” that only resonated with like-minded folks.


16 posted on 10/18/2012 7:38:06 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because he is a leader and gives a feeling of “he has it under control”. Women are wired to be attracted to the man who can secure the cave and get the food. Ofcourse, there are exceptions to this but it is biologically how women are wired. Mitt Romney sends off those signals or whatever you call them.


17 posted on 10/18/2012 7:38:59 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Women are attracted to competence.

Unlike men, for women looks aren’t as important as ability. Despite all the talk of equality, most women really want someone they can depend on, not someone needy and incompetent.

The ordinary-looking but capable man wins out over the handsome slacker.

(Not that Barry0 is handsome.)


18 posted on 10/18/2012 7:42:39 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: traderrob6

Thanks for the reminder .... I did hear her say that this morning and thought it was pretty clever.


19 posted on 10/18/2012 7:47:07 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: Sacajaweau

The missionary work is not a choice but a requirement for obedient young Mormon men. It’s not always overseas. Those young men in white shirts on bicycles in your neighborhood are working off their requirement.

As far as I’m concerned, all Mitt did in his missionary service was suffer through a rather rigorous coming-of-age ritual in which he was cut off from his family (no communication) for two years and required to live in frugal circumstances. He did it because he had to.

Fine with me. Probably builds character. But it’s ridiculous to call boys barely out of their teens “elders.”


20 posted on 10/18/2012 7:49:49 AM PDT by Jedidah
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