Pol Opposes Women's Suffrage

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2001/sep/28/092806644.html ^ | September 28, 2001

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"Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote."

Without the women's vote, we would've been spared two of our worst-ever presidents: Harding and Clinton!

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Guess I messed up that link. Trying again: Pol Opposes Women's Suffrage

[Mark was here]

All the women that voted for Gore because they liked the way he kissed Tipper on TV

[That Poppins Woman]

"If I don't get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren," she said. "And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and my husband asks me to quit, I would."

Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good. -- Melvin (Jack Nicholson), As Good As It Gets

Perhaps the senator should consider giving thanks for having it so good, rather than making pronouncements about what men should do, and about what women shouldn't have the right to do.

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What's this about noodle salad? I did not see the movie.

[That Poppins Woman]

As Good As It Gets is on TBS/TNT/TCM about every weekend. If not this weekend, rent it. Worth the $. Excellent movie.

An obsessive-compulsive writer (Melvin) is confronted by his gay neighbor's tragic beating, and begins stepping out of his usual routine by taking care of his neighbor's dog, getting the doctor-husband of his publicist to make a house call on his favorite waitress's ill son. He drives the neighbor and the waitress down to Baltimore so the neighbor can ask his parents for money for medical bills. Everyone is telling their sad tale on the drive. Melvin notes that all their frustration isn't that they all have their sad tales, but that so many others had such good lives, i.e., good times, noodle salad.

[Arthur McGowan]

Since the family, not the individual, is the basic unit of human society, it makes sense that one person in each family should fulfill the function of representing each family in the outside (political) world. Since fighting war is a political act, and the duty to do so falls on males, it makes sense that it is the male head of the family who should exercise the OTHER political function of the family, voting.

Ideally, the vote belongs, not to males, or to married males, but specifically to FATHERS, and only fathers of children living in intact families. This would have the effect of reducing the influence of the dissolute, those unfaithful to vows, the non-future-oriented. It would mean that political decisions would be made primarily by those with SONS--reducing the influence of those who might desire to send other people's sons into war. It would also decrease the influence in public life of both females and males who seek to use coercion to live at public expense.

[Paradox]

I say we go back to restricting the vote to property owners, regardless of the gender.

[Aurelius]

I think Harding has gotten a bad rap. Certainly he ranks ahead of Wilson, F. Roosevelt, and Clinton, who should be ranked the worst presidents of the last century. Since Clinton served in the 21st also, we can hope he will rank as the worst president of this century.

[I am still Casey]

What an outrageous bunch of drivel!!!

What, pray tell, does women voting have to do with they could stay home, raise families and tend to domestic duties... These are incompatible? We can't do both? Yuck, yuck. Gag, gag.

The 19th amendment giving all U.S. women the right to vote was ratified in 1920. O'Connor said the amendment began a societal shift that eventually encouraged women to trade homemaker roles for careers.

Poppycock! Perhaps she should focus on the Equal Rights Amendment, Roe v. Wade, and the emergence of the radical Left-wing gang of Feminazis.

Some sort of political-issues IQ test would weed out the igits, both male and female, but this lady is completely off base.

[AntiScumbag]

yup, or, better yet, taxable income

[Aurelius]

Property owners and those who get no significant portion of their income from the government. The later is very important. That would exclude people who teach at "public" (i.e government) schools, colleges and universities and those engaged in government supported "science" - government lackeys all.

[Digger]

I read a U of Chicago 92 page report on this subject. Immediately when womens suffrage was involked the country moved toward the left. Now that's enough for me to know it was a mistake.

[gumbo]

Thanks for the explanation, but think I'll skip the movie.

Can't stand Jack Nicholson, first off; and any movie that starts with a gay person getting beat up sounds too Hollyweird-preachy to me.

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Since fighting war is a political act, and the duty to do so falls on males, it makes sense that it is the male head of the family who should exercise the OTHER political function of the family, voting.

Sounds good to me. My guess is, ironically, male voters would be far more likely to vote themselves into a war than would females. But that is perhaps as it should be.

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I read a U of Chicago 92 page report on this subject. Immediately when womens suffrage was involked the country moved toward the left. Now that's enough for me to know it was a mistake.

Got a link to that? Sounds like a good read.

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Some sort of political-issues IQ test would weed out the igits, both male and female, but this lady is completely off base.

I'd second that, but unfortunately there are too many court rulings against the idea to make it realistic.

[ClassicConservative]

This woman ought to immediately resign her seat and return to her home, if she has a shred of respect for her own opinion. Absent that shred, she sure ought not to comment on others' opinions.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

My dad votes union Democrat...

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I think Harding has gotten a bad rap. Certainly he ranks ahead of Wilson, F. Roosevelt, and Clinton, who should be ranked the worst presidents of the last century.

I guess women voters can't be blamed for Wilson -- though he certainly seems like one of the most femin-ized presidents ever.

And no doubt FDR did more lasting damage than Harding.

But I was just trying to think of lousy presidents whose election we can blame on the 'women's vote.' How about Kennedy?