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Republican Debate: Rosa Parks Top Pick for $10 Bill [Barely]
Wall Street Journal ^ | 09/17/15 | NICK TIMIRAOS

Posted on 09/17/2015 5:28:52 AM PDT by SES1066

Rosa Parks won the straw poll of the 11 Republican presidential candidates when they were asked in Wednesday’s debate which woman should go on the $10 bill.

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Rand Paul: Susan B. Anthony,
Mike Huckabee: My wife,
Marco Rubio: Rosa Parks,
Ted Cruz: Keep Hamilton. Put Rosa Parks on the $20,
Ben Carson: My mother,
Donald Trump: My daughter, Ivanka, or Rosa Parks,
Jeb Bush: Margaret Thatcher,
Scott Walker: Clara Barton,
Carly Fiorina: Don’t change it,
John Kasich: Mother Theresa,
Chris Christie: Abigail Adams

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hamilton; pander; parks; rosa; ten
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To: SES1066

Stupid question....guess there wasn’t enough time for questions about US debt


21 posted on 09/17/2015 6:42:32 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: SES1066
My choice for a woman on the Ten Dollar Bill?

Lady Liberty. But she would have to take a HUGE demotion.

 

 


22 posted on 09/17/2015 6:44:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: SES1066

Ted Cruz was closest. Hamilton stays. Replace Jackson with....Phyllis Schafley.


23 posted on 09/17/2015 6:49:55 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SES1066

Unstated reason for the choice?

She’s a twofer and keeps the GOP from having to fight off Obama or another black going on another bill in a few years.


24 posted on 09/17/2015 7:01:43 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SES1066

Carley won that question. Don’t change it.


25 posted on 09/17/2015 7:10:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ayn Rand——the real Lady of Liberty.


26 posted on 09/17/2015 7:15:59 AM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Oh HELL No.

Rand was a Godless Liberal. I’d sooner take Rosa Parks over her.


27 posted on 09/17/2015 7:18:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Psalm 73
Phyllis Schlafly is still alive, so she isn't eligible.

Maybe replace Andy Jackson with Rachel Donelson Jackson. Of course she was never First Lady since she died between the election and when Jackson was sworn in.

Abigail Adams isn't a bad choice. Or Pocahontas. Or Sequoyah. Or Chief Joseph.

But I think they should leave them as they are now--not make a change because some activists thought it was an issue they could get people worked up over.

28 posted on 09/17/2015 7:23:32 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SES1066

Stupid liberal question, I doubt anyone had given this any thought prior to being asked, I think Paul was the first to answer and he gave the politically correct answer Rosa Parks, some others followed suit.

Only Jeb gave the answer that was in line with the stupidity of question, he chose Thatcher saying he didn’t know if it would be legal or some such nonsense but thinking he could pick up points being at the Reagan Library and everybody loves her, when he got no response but laughter he giggled like a little girl.


29 posted on 09/17/2015 7:25:22 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: socal_parrot

The Rosa Parks incident wasn’t spontaneous.

It was planned, staged, and executed and became the subject of black culture lore provided by the MSM.


30 posted on 09/17/2015 7:38:00 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Maybe replace Andy Jackson with Rachel Donelson Jackson.

Or Michael Jackson.

31 posted on 09/17/2015 7:40:56 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

32 posted on 09/17/2015 7:44:36 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
"...Or Sequoyah. Or Chief Joseph."

Hmmm, replace Jackson with an American Indian. I like it!

33 posted on 09/17/2015 8:56:57 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SES1066

Rosa Parks would be problematic. She spent her latter years living in Detroit, and when I lived in Michigan she would turn up from time to time in the local news as the victim of muggings or break-ins at the hands of young black thugs, who obviously had no idea who she was.

An eternal reminder of black-on-black crime on the currency? I don’t see them doing it.


34 posted on 09/17/2015 9:09:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Soul of the South

>> we should return to the representation of lady liberty on coins and currency instead of showing real people <<

Interesting thought. Although I like seeing the pictures of George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Alex Hamilton and Ben Franklin on our currency, I think it would be good to consider replacing Andy Jackson with Lady Liberty, plus replacing U. S. Grant with Lady Justice.

(Thomas Jefferson? Leave him on the nickle, but maybe replace him on the two dollar bill with a race horse?)


35 posted on 09/17/2015 11:49:42 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: SES1066

HOW ABOUT FARINA from the our gang series...
or AUNT JAMAIMA...


36 posted on 09/17/2015 12:30:06 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: SES1066
Put Dolly Madison on the bill.

-PJ

37 posted on 09/17/2015 12:39:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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