Everyone in my family is conservative except guess who? My mother, aunts, sisters, every election like clockwork: “I don’t trust that guy, the other guy is better looking.” They don’t care, they are very blatant about it as if they can’t understand why men don’t base a candidate on looks as well. It’s a form of insanity, it really is. It’s why teen girls go crazy over pretty boy pop stars even though the music is utter garbage. You never see teen boys going crazy over pretty girl singers. They only buy if the music is good. Not teen girls, every-single-time they will base music on the performers looks and the same goes for politics later on. You ever notice that when women were allowed to vote in 1920, we never had another President with facial hair? The last was William Taft in 1913. So in essence, our whole political system has been based on who is the prettiest.
If you never see teen boys going crazy over pretty girl singers, then why is Miley Cyrus dressing like a skank these days? Substitute “slutty” for “pretty” and you might have something.
Women, as an average, vote more with their emotions. There are exceptions and we’re blessed to have thousands of them here on FR and millions more across the country, but as an average, they trend more left than men. Many female acquaintances of mine on Twitter during the 2012 campaign absolutely would not be swayed by Romney’s solid economic arguments even as they whined and griped about not being able to find decent jobs during the Obama Recession; to them it was ALL about “reproductive choice” (free contraception and abortion on demand with no restrictions) and “social justice” (punitive taxation on “the rich,” nationalized healthcare, pushing the gay agenda including gay “marriage” and gay Boy Scout leaders, forgiving their student loans, “clean energy,” etc.). These were allegedly intelligent women with college degrees, who were engaged with their world and kept up on the news, and yet they absolutely WOULD NOT LISTEN to any sort of reason. Anyone who disagreed with The Won was a racist and was subject to a Two Minutes Hate of insane intensity.
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