Female Voters Are Too Emotional: And That Makes Me Very Angry!!
Ladies, some of you are just too programmed by the hormones. And just for the record, I don’t think Mitt Romney is anywhere near the kind of guy who “is all about service.” Far from using his hands to give a soothing foot-massage, I see Romney with that smug smile on his face shaking hands with Chinese millionaires and growing his financial empire while they send us more lead-filled crap for our children to play with.
Poor Susan B. Anthony must be rolling in her grave to hear some of the emotional nonsense coming from female voters. All that fighting for our suffrage so we can debate who would rub our feet? Really? Okay look, maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps back in her day, Susan thought Millard Fillmore was hot and just couldn’t wait to get in there and pull that lever! Maybe Ulysses S. Grant really curled her socks and inspired her to draft the first version of the 19th Amendment using the small of his back as a desk, like John Malkovich and Uma Thurman in Dangerous Liaisons.
Surely we girls are capable of so much more than mere presidential beefcake. That kind of talk would never fly if men tried it: Imagine some guy calling Hannity or Limbaugh and saying, “I really like Michele Bachmann for president because she would give me a foot massage like nobody’s business.” Sick, right??
Ladies: it’s going to be a long campaign season. I know that most of us out there are smart, thoughtful, analytical – and funny – women who have opinions with backbone, but for those of you gals contemplating the candidates based on the warm-and-fuzzy factor, PLEASE do the rest of us a favor and raise the bar just a teeny, tiny bit before you go to the polls.
The first and last time I read a Maureen Dowd column was the summer of 2000; she wrote about “which candidates she’d ‘do’” ewewewewewwwwwww. TMI from an old woman.
I challenge ANY conservative man here who backed up Palin to say he would have backed up Palin even if she had looked like Elena Kagan or Janet Reno. <—double dog dare eveeen!
Men often brag about how 'good looking' Conservative women are compared to 'Libs'. So, who's all about being a 'sucker' for looks?
I think men would vote a pretty woman for president before he'd vote an ugly one. Women will vote for ugly men.
Ya'll need to check yo-self. lol ;p
@Delia
It would be a bald-faced lie to say that looks have nothing to do with the draw of a person. That never changes for anyone.
However what comes after does. I like Sarah. I think she’s backwoods classy (cute and tough)BUT she’s also smart and can work a room like nobodies business. That after part is what matters.
When you entire reason for backing someone is based on physical traits rather than mental ones there is an issue but when looks only serve to draw your attention to the person working the room then there is no issue.
“I think men would vote a pretty woman for president before he’d vote an ugly one. Women will vote for ugly men if there are no pretty ones present.
Fixed that comment to make it truthful. Looks are ingrained into our brains to be a factor. It’s when it becomes the one and only factor that you get problems.
Challenge accepted!
I’d vote for Sarah even if she wasn’t good looking, and you couldn’t pay me enough to vote for Hillary, no matter what she looked like. It’s the values that count, not the looks.
“Ya’ll need to check yo-self. lol ;p”
Speak for yourself.
Well, I’m not a conservative “man,” I’m a conservative heterosexual woman, and I supported Sarah Palin to the hilt. We sent a check to the McCain campaign the day he announced she would be his running mate.
I know it can be difficult for a non-conservative to understand why conservatives hold the views they do, but I assure you that the enthusiasm for Palin is not based on having the hots for her. We listen to what she says, and we agree with her. It’s that simple.
I am going to say something very insulting on purpose;
There were reasons we didn’t want to give you’all the vote.
And you have just demonstrated three of them.
I have to agree with you, and I’m a woman.
Perhaps only married women should be allowed to vote. Single women are, all too often, looking for a man to take care of them and excite them at the same time, without their having to do anything in return. They evaluate candidates as though they are potential sugar daddies, which not only is sick, but also has a deleterious effect on the body politic as a whole.
i easily could
granted, conservative women are very attractive; hearing someone like margaret thatcher tear into the wussified parliament during her years as pm turns me into putty
Sarah looks good, but it’s that genuine warm smile that does the trick, that dazzles when she is out and about in public. Punditry doesn’t suit it. I volunteered for the elderly Margaret Mitchell when I lived in East Vancouver. She was called the hardest working MP in Parliament. Like Sarah Palin in Alaska.
I would have voted for Margeret Thatcher, so yea, I’d vote for Ugly Palin, based on her politics. I’m not shallow like you.
Okay, genius ‘men folk’…
Explain to me this…
Why is it almost elusively in any other part of ‘nature’ that everything from male plants to male insects to male mammals do males have to be the more ‘attractive’ and also the most ‘expendable’?
Men are expendable throughout all of nature. It’s just a truth of biology.
As a man, I think the prudent course would be to not comment on this post.
No one, with a lick of common sense, is going to question your appreciation of the situation, -tom.
Oh, Hell, mix it up! But then I’m old enough not to care much whether or not I get laid tonight.
Next I’m going to hear that the MEN who are behind Marxism, Socialism and Communism all suddenly grew vaginas and became females!
Lamers.
No, Delia. They were what we call very charismatic, and a lot of that charismatic energy went into estabishing ardent worshippers among the women in their sphere of domination, with all of the perks that inplies.
Mao comes to mind. Jim Jones is another. Kim Il Jong (who tended to have his ex-concubines murdered).
There is something about a man with his fingers on the levers of power that makes some women swoon.
I think Obama may have a coterie of female groupies too, come to think of it. At least one of them is on the White House staff. Probably a good thing he does’t like girls, huh.
Funny, I never heard of women swooning for Bush II though.
And ‘poon’ makes men ‘swoon’ which is why they seek power?
Brilliant!
@delia, et al. – No, most of us who’ve reached any position of power are immune to the horizontal career move; we got to positions of power by being immune to it. Slick Willie might have been a lot of women’s fantasy, but he was a stupid sh*t.
I had the great good fortune of having sex with one of my subordinates when I was a tender and callow fellow back in the ’70s when I was a management trainee for a big corporation; never got another lick of work or a lick of anything else out of her again. I learned my lesson!
I spent the last decade or so of my career surrounded by women who’d trip you, beat you to the ground, and call a reporter on the way down; they had that horizontal career move down! If you really need some momentary pleasure, there are plenty of honest, purely commercial whores out there, you don’t need the political whore because the price is just way too high. But for just general titilation and ego stroking, they’re lots of fun.
“wile” is not correct usage.
“Whiled” away her time… ‘Whiled’ is a verb, used with ‘away’, meaning ‘to pass time in a leisurely manner.’
Darned auto spell check — I despise grammatical errors — thanks for the heads up!
My Grandmother always voted for the most handsome one to her.
I had to follow your Lewinski link.
And I totally guessed wrong, for a minute I thought you knew women who had a thing for cigars >.>
Also, Bachmann and the foot massage.. … …
I can see that.
‘I almost wrecked the car because I then imagined Newt Gingrich rubbing my feet”
Don’t worry, he’ll prolly get around to you sometime soon.
I can say this without being labeled a male chauvinist pig, being female, myself, and utterly dismayed by the level of idiocy I encounter every day from members of my own sex.
I can see some dizzy teenage girl going ga-ga over a reasonably attractive male candidate, but there comes a time when you have to grow up or be labeled a bubblehead for the rest of your life. My sister’s mother-in-law was of that sort. She voted for Clinton because he was “cute”. Ewww.
I am firmly of the opinion that no one should be allowed to vote before serving in the military or taking on some sort of job that would force one to acquire a little maturity. The country got into trouble because every Thomasina, Rikki and Harriet, as well as Tom, Dick or Harry could vote, whether or not he or she could string two coherent words together, much less knew how many states were in the Union.
A little basic competence would go a long way.
At risk of going off-topic: I am also dismayed at the level of idiocy displayed by members of my own sex, but over the abortion issue. One million abortions each year in the U.S. Are you kidding me? And women remain defiant in their defense of “choice,” seeing absolutely nothing wrong or problematic about the status quo. It just astounds me. I wonder why I can’t understand this. Am I missing something?
Sorry, I realize this is off-topic.
Ya well as a guy I’m glad a woman is willing to voice that opinion. I personally would never be able to “be” with someone, even for a date, if I knew she was pro-”choice”. Let’s just say I need to move to a place that is more accomadating to my “right-wing extremist” viewpoint.
I had two relationships before I met my husband (I married quite late). I told both guys that I was pro-life, and that if the liaison ever resulted in a pregnancy, I wouldn’t be getting an abortion. Amazing how that scares the crap out of some guys. They were meticulous when it came to the birth control.
From another perspective: there is a Planned Parenthood facility not far from my house. The pro-life protesters are out in full force some days, and many of them are young 20-something men. Some days I want to stop the car and ask them if they’d be willing to put there money where their mouths are: would they be willing to date and marry a woman who already had a child because she decided not to have an abortion? Would they choose a women whose youthful indiscretion resulted in a child vs. a woman who has “hidden” her indscretions via abortion? (Of course, these young men are the Christian evangelical types who wouldn’t consider a woman who wan’t a virgin anyway–which leads to a whole other discussion . . . )
Well, these days if they’re holding out for a virgin, they’d better like video games! Other than the players just looking for notches on the bedpost, I don’t think men these days rule out women with a child or even children. If you don’t marry your high school or college sweetheart or if like half of marriages you wind up divorcing your high school or college sweetheart in your late ’20s or ’30s, you’re going to be dating people with children. At least in this part of the World the tendency is for women to marry the first guy who’s nice to them to get out of the house and then after they whelp a couple of kids by him they figure out he’s always going to be an a**hole and they’re divorced and looking for some guy to buy braces for those kids when they’re in their early ’30s. And, hey, I know the man’s children cause as much trouble in a relationship as the woman’s, I think more if they both have children because the man’s children are a threat to the woman’s.
I know from my perspective having married a woman with children, I’d marry the woman who’d had and raised the child on her own rather than put up with the ex-husband/bio-dad. I love my wife and we’ve made it to the point where the kids are as much on their own as they seem to get these days, but if one of my buddies came to me and told me he was really into some woman with kids, I’d ask him if the kids’ father was still alive. If the answer was yes, I’d tell him to go sleep with her one last time for old time’s sake and run like Hell.
If the bio dad is still around, the kids are going to play him and their mother off each other and off you constantly. You couldn’t have gotten my stepkids to live with their bio-Dad with dynamite, and in her objective moments my wife knew this, but if she or I got into any conflict with those kids, they could cry in unison, “We hate you, we want to live with our Dad,” and she’d start offering castles in Lichtenstein, Lamborginis, Tiffany accounts, whatever to make her babies love her again. I’ve never really had an ugly fight with my wife over something that was just between us, but I’ve left her more than once over something having to do with those kids. Since practically everyone I know has been divorced, I know my experience comports with pretty much everyone else’s.
You make some excellent points. Years ago when a young women made a “mistake” she and the child were branded for life. Times have changed so dramatically, that when this happens, should she elect to have the child and go it alone, it is cause for celebration. I know a couple of young women who found themselves in that situation and I have told them how much I admire their determination not to take a life because of what lies ahead for them. They are very young still and I hope one day a decent man will come along and respect their devotion to life and the sacrifice they made.
I married a woman who had a child from a deadbeat man that didn’t come back into the child’s life until 8, so cram your moralizing. I’m sure if you were to ‘choose’ to have the child, you would choose to take that man’s income for 18 years as well. If you want to be about choice, then the BC choice is yours as well. What I find funny is these men were more concerned about life than you are. They actively tried to be faithful about BC so they wouldn’t create a life that would be destroyed, where you as you used it as a threat. What a horrible person you are. Selfish to the core.
Stereotype much?
@Rik – No, it was the men in my life who were selfish. I gave and gave, while they took and took. They couldn’t have cared less about “life.” All they wanted was sex. Not marriage, not children. And to this day, neither of them wants anything to do with marriage or children–just sex and good times. Thank goodness I woke up and found a nice guy.
And, for the record, I wouldn’t have wanted child support from either. I have a career of my own and do fine for myself, thank you very much.
I congratulate you for being the kind of person who would take care of another man’s child. Many of the men I have known would want none of that.
Back about ’80 when I was still being paid to be a Democrat, I went to a Democrat grip ‘n grin because I had to. I’ll never forget a conversation that I was peripherally a part of in which the widow of a Congressman and the mother of a US Senator was discussing with a woman who was a union leader and recent candidate for State House whether they thought that President Reagan or the Pope would be the best “Trophy F&*k.” That same woman had flounced into my office one day and announced, “Art, I’m running for the House and I’ve had my tubes tied.”
I know what you’re trying to say Ms. Maier, but one Helluva lot of women voted for the cool Black dude because they knew how much it would piss off some guy.
This is just plain stupid. Men do the same thing. How many conservative men have swooned over Palin, aka Caribou Barbie–and continue to swoon over Palin. I know many of them (both my dad and father-in-law), and I hear them everyday on the radio, calling into talk shows.
Yes, the caller to the Hannity show sounds like a ditz. But I hear equally-as-ditzy men calling into shows voicing their ill-conceived adoration for their candidate with a lack of logic that defies the imagination.
Keep the apples and oranges separate; you can still count on the fingers of one hand the American women who have contended for National office. Even the Democrats who usually run to pursed lipped, short-haired, sharp-featured shrews managed to find a reasonably feminine and attractive woman in Ferarro. No breathing man would kick either Palin or Bachmann out of bed for eating crackers – at least until you got to know them. I mean, I really, really, really don’t like Sarah Palin, and I do know her, but after two or three drinks at a hotel bar …
I don’t think we know yet whether men would swoon for an attractive female candidate the way women so demonstrably have for attractive male candidates. No doubt that the rich, handsome, dashing – in about that order – Kennedy benefited greatly from the hormonal vote. With Slick Willie you could just hear women all over America saying, “I can change him; he wouldn’t cheat on me.” I don’t know about the rest of the Country but Southerners know ALL about that “I can change him” thing; ladies do love outlaws.
Even though Romney is a handsome man in that matinee idol sort of way that used to work, I don’t know that his image gets it with Ms. Modern. To us Rednecks, Romney is damned near neutered, but in the land of the urban castrati, a square-jawed guy like Romney who can actually speak authoritatively and in complete sentences is just scarier than Hell. Ms. Modern wants to have sex with the redneck who’ll throw her on the floor and try to pound her through it, but she wants to marry or vote for a doormat who’ll when she says jump will say, “how high.” Neither Romney nor Gingrich could get a single vote from the wymyn, but for a lot of women, especially divorced or never married women, neither of them can get many votes because they’re the kind of guys who won’t worship them and might, like, discipline their kids or something.
Wow that’s quite the analysis of such a serious (sarcasm-sort of) article. Problem is men just care about the looks and how many “attractive” female politicians can you name – it’s not the woman’s fault but I remember some sitcom episode where the woman says men get more attractive with age and women less so. Also with women there seems to be more than just rugged good looks influencing them, primarily wealth and power. Let’s face it you don’t see good-looking men with unattractive/average looking women with lots of money or an important government job, but vice versa you see all the time.
Hey, if it weren’t for fast cars, big boats, old whiskey, and pretty, young women, we could all be WalMart greeters. Or as a buddy who now has a young wife and an old airplane used to say in his sporty days, “if it floats, flies, or, well, you know; rent it!
LOL!
Aside from the sexism and other nonsense both sexes are more than capable of, I’d just like to note that my mother voted for Obama to ‘make history.’
Which I found an appauling reason to do so.
History will attend to itself. Vote for the person that actuall know what they are doing
I hate to see you women suffraging so much and I just wish it would stop.
Unfortunately, in all areas of life, a person’s relative attractiveness opens or closes doors. Take a look at the personal appearance of every President in the television age.
Obama vs. McCain.
Bush vs. Kerry aka Herman Munster
Bush vs. Gore OK, a toss up maybe, but Gore’s a big, sweaty guy who put his tongue down Tipper’s throat on stage. eeeew.
Clinton vs. Dole
Clinton vs. GHW Bush
GHW Bush vs. Dukakis
Reagan vs. Mondale
Reagan vs. Carter
Carter vs. Ford Carter’s not good looking, but Ford?
Nixon vs. McCarthy (this was an off year)
Nixon vs. Humphrey (if it was that dreamy Bobby Kennedy would Nixon have won?)
Johnson vs. Goldwater (neither were attractive and Johnson got the JFK sympathy vote)
Kennedy vs. Nixon (no contest in the cutie pie department)
It’s an undeniable pattern.
I have read that Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard after a school girl wrote that “women like men with whiskers. They will convince their husbands to vote for you.”. Or something to that effect.
It must be tough to be a serious woman. There are a lot of unserious women out there to ruin the reputation for their gender.
But hey they can always fall back to yelling and screaming and demanding respect.
What annoys the hell out of me is when press and pundits hail the advancement of someone like Nancy Pelosi to the Speaker’s Chair as a big win for women. Her ascension sure didn’t give me the warm fuzzies.
Stephanie:
“”That kind of talk would never fly if men tried it.”
Yeah, they’re expected to use the more discerning “Would I have a beer with this guy?” standard.
Don’t mock: that standard is frequently more discerning, and has gotten me out of trouble on a regular basis.
People say the funniest things, the “foot rub caller” still doesn’t creep me out as much as some of the liberal men talking about what tingles when they think of Obama. I still have never heard a woman say he’s attractive but the men just go on and on. And they think he’s smart too. Crazy talk! Guess all the pimps aren’t flashy dressers (at least not on MSNBC).
Women were swooning in the aisles over Obama. He showed up on ‘The View’, and Baba Wawa told him how handsome she found him. So, yeah, the women did go gaga over Obama.
As for men being hot for the likes of Palin: Yes, I would vote for her, even if she were ugly.
Actually, she is just pretty, not beautiful or sexy, but she has an inner glow that just shines. There’s a reason she was chosen Miss Congeniality in the AK beauty contest. I never think of sex when I see her. I just don’t. I like her values, her warmth, and her pragmatism.
I would not vote for her because of her looks. I just wouldn’t, because elections are too important. Guys generally get this. Women, not so much.
I don’t think women are too emotional in their voting. I just think they are too easily seduced by the sweet lies. They fall for the same lies again and again. They really believe that *this* guy really *will* respect her in the morning.
What? Women can vote now?
Yes we can! And I’m going to vote for Newt because his wife has the best helmet hair.
Every time I see her I think “helmet head”. Never
a hair out of place.
and the botox face.
I wonder if any men had fantasies about Hillary’s
feet?
Oh God! What comment has been read cannot be unread… now I will have a disturbing Hillary image in my head for the rest of the night.
I’d gladly give up my right to vote if it meant the abolition of the vote for all women. The left LOVES women. That’s why we had the “women’s movement”. They are easily manipulated, are emotional, and can be counted on to feel and not to think. Now that doesn’t mean there aren’t any women out there who have the intellectual heft to bypass all that crap, but there are not enough of them to make a difference. And those are all in the right wing camp. When I hear some of them express their opinions similar to what you heard about Al Gorgeous (seriously? – that wooden robotic unstable creep????) I could primal scream and start pulling hair. Take a look at all the cultural institutions dominated by women, including education at all levels, and you might begin to understand why men elect to turn their backs. It is said that any instance where women invade territories formerly peopled by men, the males just disappear. Can you blame them? The women might be emotional boobs but the men in this country wimped out decades ago and have allowed themselves to be castrated in their caving in to female demands. Repeal the 19th Amendment.
WTF?
Hey, jack-hole. Visit the blogs where men obsess over scoring ‘pussy’ and tell me that men aren’t ruled by something other than their ‘cerebral cortex’ you effing jack-wagon POS.
Who pissed in your corn flakes?
You proved the point. Your response is emotional, unhinged, and inane. Get it together. Your femaleness is hanging out all over the place.
Girl, you are so right.
Awaiting the inevitable contribution from the commenter known as “Whiskey,” which will go a little something like:
“White, college-educated, SWPL women will never vote for Romney over the Cool Black Guy because Romney acts like a beta male nice guy, and SWPL white women are attracted to sexy, high-testosterone, muscular, hyper-masculine black guys, and HATE, HATE, HATE white beta male nice guys. Mitt reminds white women of the dreaded 1950s, and gay mafia Hollywood stereotypes of dreaded, regressive Ozzie and Harriet-type Stepford nuclear families. Heavily influenced by Hollywood and their gay best friends, white SWPL women want to have fun with sexy, masculine thugs. When they’re in their “party years” in their 20s and 30s. Mitt’s only hope is to go totally bad boy, like Charlie Sheen, or to thug it up like Lil Wayne or Young Jeezy.
Newt would fare even worse against the young, sexy, muscular, hyper-masculine Cool Black Obama because he’s an old, fat, nerdy white guy who comes across as perpetually angry and scowling at a world that’s passed him by. But at least Newt is an alpha a-hole. And white SWPL women love a-holes. THat and Newt is a serial philanderer. Who consistently pulls much younger women, and that equals social proof. Because white women love womanizing players.”
Actually, in all fairness, although the above is parody of the commenter “Whiskey” (a man who takes all kinds of abuse from fellow commenters on right-leaning blogs), Whiskey usually makes a lot of valid, interesting points. Does he have a burr up his kiester about upper middle class, educated, white professional women? Well, yeah. But his musings aren’t necessarily entirely wrong. Regardless, whatever you think of him, Whiskey is interesting. His valid points are, however, often overshadowed by some major head-scratchers (like predicting that Obama will cancel the 2012 election and impose Marshall Law).
Don’t blow that off either. It’s not a dead cert, but anyone would give you 10:1 odds, not 1000:1.
Not to mention that ACORN has reconstituted itself, and the Dems are using Holder’s DOJ to keep as many dead people voting as possible. One day, you will look back and see the degree of voter fraud that the Dems have employed as a matter of course, and all will become clear. (Go to Breitbart and watch the Pigford videos. It’s nauseating. And typical. There is enough evidence in that video, with no narration, to convict everyone in that room. All I hear is crickets chirping). They win in a center/right country because they cheat. Simple as that.
Are we electing sopmeone who will prosecute these vote stealers as a RICO violation? Something tells me, “NO!”
We won’t elect a candidate that won’t fight electoral fraud because he’ll never beat Obama. The dems are already signing up dead voters,lining up judges and whatever else they do.The republicans would be wise to do go on the offensive now.Whoever the candidate is will have to confront this problem.If he doesn’t, he’s toast and we are too.
Obama intends to win this election. It would be good for his ego don’t you think? Major fraud won’t bother him. He is a product of affirmative action after all.
In answer to your question, I don’t see such a candidate in the present field,so no.
I have no doubt you are correct….but….
“…..sexy, high-testosterone, muscular, hyper-masculine black guys, and HATE, HATE, HATE white beta male nice guys.”
Perhaps women see that when they look at Captain Zero, but I see a closeted flamer. In public he is metro at best, and I can easily see him letting down his gaurd in private and swishing when he breaths.
It is a mystery to me why women find that attractive. If I had a nickel for every time I pointed out that the object of some woman’s crush was not interested in women and they refused to believe it…….
Agree completely.
And then some!
Like Soros (yikes!!),I see Obama and Romney as having many things in common, not the least of which is weakness. For all the lines in Romney’s face, character is not what I see etched there.
I will vote ABO, even if it’s him, but these are sad times for America.
I come from a long line of Southern women whose antecedents went West after the Civil War – in 1911, my own father’s mother walked from Tennessee to Texas beside a horse-drawn wagon with a baby on her hip, and a husband and brother in the driver’s seat. They were too poor, you see, to take all their earthly goods by train. She subsequently helped to farm a cotton farm, through two World Wars and a Depression.
I am descended from women on both sides who would have sneered and jeered at some of the attitudes exhibited by some women today. Choose a president because he has a nice voice, or good hair, or he is supposedly entitled to some retribution for past injustice? They wouldn’t laugh. They’d simply stare in disbelief.
I will simply refer you to “the Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”, for the definitive paragraph pertaining to this issue. (Don’t miss the Original Bad Bob, either).
Also, a few notes:
Art Chance…you are one tough old buzzard. I want to join your club.
My sister, Mary, is slightly to the right of Attila the Hun (she’s supporting Paul, but wishes General Patton was running). She also thinks women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. As did my Mother, eventually. She thought they had proven their group stupidity beyond any doubt. After all, why would they want equality with men? Wouldn’t they rather just be spoiled?). She also wanted Clinton impeached… for motor voter! If She were still alive, I think Eric Holder would have to triple his bodyguard. She’d claw his eyes out!
I miss my Mom. Sanity died with Her.
John J,
Your ‘mother’ wanted Clinton gone because he was a jack-wagon POS who thought with his dick just like most ‘men’.
Wars? Men. Rape? Men. Prostitution? MEN.
Ahhhhhh. It’s so good to be a MANLY MAN!
Actually, She thought that women should learn to close their legs. She had four daughters, raised in the late ’60s. Some went very hippy, some not. But unless you were tied down, She blamed women for getting pregnant out of wedlock. If Lewinsky wanted to be a whore, that was her business.
Everyone should be required to vote during business hours on election day. They should have to prove who they are. It should be illegal to solicit to give any stranger a ride to the polls. Any and all arguments to the contrary are BS, and an attempt to get out the illegal vote. Democrats can never allow this, because then we would all know just how crooked they are. If absentee ballots are allowed, we need to go back to the old system, where you had to prove that you needed one. Right now, we have Democrats voting in Florida, New York City, New Jersey, and then in the Hamptons…and they brag about it! Those people need to go to jail. Tammany Hall lives!
Why do you think University towns always have communists elected, even in Texas? Do these students pay taxes in those towns? I think not much. While sucking on the taxpayers’ teat, they undermine our society. This will stop, either volutanrily or cataclysmically. Your choice.
I find it interesting that women who make comments about the appearance or sex appeal of male candidates are equated as being stupid or ditzy, whereas men are perceived as sexist, or it is relegated to locker room behavior – juvenile but acceptable. Maybe the difference lies in the fact that woman actually act on the assumption that if a man looks a certain way he must contain certain attributes, projecting what they want to believe he may be like on a personal level, quite possibly voting for him. Men on the other hand, are happy let the physical attributes of a woman politician extent to well…what she might look like in a bikini or the latest Victoria Secret lingerie or wrapped in the American Flag.
I want a president who can hopefully reverse gears on the wreckage that has been done to America by the Commies in the WH and I don’t care if he or she is a trollish looking frog who eats flies for breakfasts so long as he/she loves America, adheres to and protects the constitution and acts as fast as possible to undo the harm already done by the scuzzball currently in office.
Have you ever discussed side-line babes with men? We may fantasize about them, sexually, but in no way to think that anything that comes out of their mouth about football to be in any way meaningful. Ever hear men talk about Beauty Contest contestants? You could wrap a Victoria’s Secret Model in the flag and put her up as president, but men aren’t going to vote for her. Palin was only palatable for a short time because she was rhetorically a breath of fresh air from that lying, duplicitous scumbag, John McCain. Her shtick has run real thin with men, even if we kept wondering what she’d look like naked. My ultimate point being, men can separate our fantasies from those we choose to put in positions over us. If that wasn’t the case, then women would have had a much easier time climbing the ladder, so to speak.
Well, we do have a few million years of choosing women for their breeding potential, something best revealed in a bikini, and only a couple of thousand years of choosing them for anything else. Which isn’t to say that the Greek, Roman, English, or early American woman didn’t have an influence over her husband that few modern women can grasp at all.
I got to disagree with you on this Art. The woman always has chosen the man she wants. Some women got to choose from a higher level of man due to her looks. But at any rate it was the woman surely doing the choosing.
It is biological and has always been so. If it weren’t for women all the men would be running around in the garden of eden eatin berries naked and dropping crap at their asses.
War? Just some guy trying to out jones the other guy to impress some girl who dissed him in school. See the song “How do you like me now?”.
Being raised by a single mother who smoked Marlboros by the carton daily and could punch like a man in a bar fight, and did on occasion. I can tell you that from a early age I knew what made women tick. I had to, it was a matter of survival.
Women seek men for security and provisions. They are biologically hardwired for it. As my young coworker is fond of saying, Money gets da bi*%es. And in modern society money is the wooly mammoth.
No matter what NARAL or NOW says.
I don’t think it is nearly as binary as you say nor as maybe I imply. Women haven’t always had a choice of mate and in many places still don’t. I think male attraction is more rooted in biology and female more in safety but their concerns overlap and sometimes contradict. For a man the good biological choice might well be unattainable and most men know that the good biological choice often isn’t the safe choice. Women know that the safe choice might not be a good biological choice. And of course popular culture distorts the views of both as to what choices are good.
Hum, well, at least she didn’t call in to say she imagined Romney tenderly sucking her big toe, and that only a servile toe sucker could be her president. Hypothetically speaking, I wonder what an emotional gay man would have imagined Romney sucking, and could race be an emotional factor in the selection of the sucker? As PT Barnum is reported to have said, there’s a sucker born every day, but that was before the speedy digital age where there’s a sucker born every second.
Ever notice that women got the vote in Western European countries and its been welfare state socialism, cultural marxism, sexual revolution destruction of family and social bonds, and mass murder of our offspring.
ie the self destruction of Western Christian Civilizaiton ever since? And pretty darn fast.
If the most capable conservative candidate willing to wade into the swamp of presidential politics were no taller than Danny Devito, even if he was drop dead gorgeous, how many female votes would his stature cost him, I wonder. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard “…and he has to be taller than me.”
Then there’s Henry and Nancy Kissinger.
Actually, if women drivers would just not hesitate once they’ve entered an intersection, I’d consider that a victory.
I support your right to offend anyone you wish. But you can’t say “No offense to whatshername…” and then be offensive without owning it.
Here, let me show you: “No offense to Stephanie Maier, but I use her articles in the lavatory.”
That’s funny; I like that!
Notice how the ratio of women/men callers to talk radio changes when some candidate’s personal issues break into the news. If the candidates argue and the news are about some heated policy issue, notice how few women call and how little passion they have for the topic. As soon and some relationship item about a candidate fills the news the women flood the phones and have all of this “insight” and passion to contribute.
I’ll take women seriously when Cosmo and The Frisky go out of business. When women storm the studios and tar and feather The View, then I’ll think women are serious. What’s the best-selling magazine for women? Lifetime isn’t making movies about policy discussion.
I used to sit with an ex and watch Lifetime movies. I came to call it violence for women; bad boy jerks, and sometimes women inflicting or threatening every form of personal mayhem imaginable.
Don’t women vote to commandeer government power to force policies that support families and children? Don’t men vote to get government off their backs? The female vote is a seach for the ideal mate: stays physically close, attractive, family centered, protective, sacrificial the whole for the unit.
The male vote is a search for an ideal division commander: tough, strategic thinker, insists on competent individuality yet recognizes the whole supercedes the unit, relatively distant. Bulldog ugly can be an asset.
What did Sean Hannity do to deserve that? Maybe the GOP should consider nominating a podiatrist.
This is why I always mute my radio when Hannity or Rush go to the phones. The callers always tick me off.
I’m a woman, and I can say that Ms. Meier is right in respect to (some!) women being shallow voters. Of course, it’s important to remember that there are shallow voters in EVERY voting bloc, all of whom will vote for someone for reasons that are just as incidental and irrelevant as whether or not he or she is “cute.” Which is why my advice is always the same:
If you vote for someone because s/he’s black, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because s/he’s NOT black, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because she’s a woman, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because he’s a man, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because they’ve got good hair, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because they have a nice smile, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because their campaign signs are colorful, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because s/he preaches a system of social justice and wealth redistribution, you’re stupid.
If you vote for someone because s/he supports a free market system of small government, low taxes, and reasonable regulation, GET YOUR BUTT TO THE BALLOT BOX RIGHT THIS INSTANT.
Mike Mahoney may be more right than he thinks, if recent politics in the UK are anything of a pointer. I could imagine Margaret Thatcher blindly following the short-sighted 700,000 in the wake of the Dunblane Massacre of 1996; more likely, she would look at the St James’s Massacre of 1993 in South Africa, which could have been a bloody event indeed but for one man with a .38 handgun.
Still less would she have sanctioned the selling off of the nation’s gold at a fraction of its current price, as Gordon Brown did when he was Chancellor. If not a doctrinairist, her heart was in the same place as her mind when she declared, “We cannot make the poor rich by making the rich poor.” Some think she was a success because she governed more like a man. I am not so sure, even if I did differ from one of her policies.
These comments are great
All I can say is: Art Chance, you are either brave or foolhardy, not sure which.
Both.
Art is not being foolhardy or brave in the sense. He knows that for Sarah Palin to cut him off, she would first have to cut him on…
Sounds to me like you’re the one with some St. Sarah love goin’ on; I despise the bi$%h. You Palinbots all think that every man who doesn’t like her wanted her and was rebuffed; I wouldn’t do that thing with yours absent a chance encounter and a lot of alcohol, nobody’s responsible for that sort of thing.
Sarah’s one of those great gals until you get to know her; I know her.
“You Palinbots all think that every man who doesn’t like her wanted her and was rebuffed”
You’re a truly sad specimen, Art.
I feel fully rational and liberated tonight. Margaret Thatcher is still my favorite female politician. Golda Meir would run a close second. It wasn’t for sex appeal or looks that I liked them both either.
Still, I wouldn’t mind a close dance with Sarah Palin.
The thought of Hillary Rotten Clinton rubbing my feet is painful.
Stephanie,
I suspect that you’re having fun as much as anything else. But, if you’re serious about your analysis (which is correct), are you intellectually honest enough to draw the obvious conclusion?
Oh, by the way, you write like a girl.
“Sitting in the window or
Standing on the stair
Something in them cheers the air
Pretty women silhouetted
Stay within you, glancing stay forever
Breathing lightly pretty women
Pretty women
Blowing out their candles or combing out their hair
Even when they leave they still are there
They’re there”
“Pretty Women”
from
“Sweeney Todd”
Stephen Sondheim
“Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim” contains a wonderful interpretation by Peabo Bryson.
http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Jazz-Sketches-Sondheim/dp/B000002AUC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328081438&sr=1-1
Your inner beauty doesn’t escape us, ladies, even when we seem not to notice or appreciate you enough.