a woman can't be president, santorum aide says

[niyad]

A Woman Can’t Be President, Santorum Aide Says


Oh, Michele Bachmann, you just never had a chance, did you?

With Bachmann as the first candidate to drop out post primary, it’s no wonder that numerous news outlets have been replaying the “what went wrong” analysis. After all, she went from winner of the Ames Straw Poll to last in the Iowa caucuses in just a matter of months. She had intense focus, knowledgeable staff, a long term ground game, and even some “hometown girl” connections, yet she completely fizzled in the end.

Why? Because most of her potential voters believe that a woman can’t be president.

Take bit from the Des Moines Register that Think Progress posted: “Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. [...] ‘The question then comes, “Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, … to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?”’ Johnson’s email said.”

The idea that women, who are not allowed to lead the household, or the church, could somehow lead the nation would be abhorrent, or at least un-Biblical, to many of the same evangelical leaders and voters that Bachmann needed to woo in order to secure a victory in Iowa. In fact, in the early days of the campaign the idea of whether Bachmann was still a proper “submissive” wife was even a debate question.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what century, what year is this?

[niyad]

2. 1402

[MisterP]

3. heck, 1402 saw Margaret I of Denmark-Norway-Sweden on the throne

[niyad]

4. thank you for reminding me that not all decades were as full of woman-hating nonsense as this

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. in 1402, Lithuania had in force a ducal decree that every land that they

had taken over (and they had all the land from the Baltic to the Black seas, with huge parts of what is today Turkey) that every inhabitant was free to practice his or her own religion without retribution or trouble. AND, serfdom or slavery, as it was described, was not permitted. True, there was the ruling class (the Gedimin family) and everyone else, but the freedom of religion was so offensive to the Vatican (or Avignon, depending on where the parties were) that one of the crusades was directed to the Baltics.

[niyad]

13. and thank you for that most informative piece of our story.

[BlueJazz]

5. These sons-a-bitches are gonna' drive us all into the Dark Ages.

They need to be put into an Asylem and have much, much treatment.

[niyad]

14. and the point of those "scriptures" is that the bible is a nice piece of patriarchal propoganda

(read "when god was a woman" by merlin stone if you are not aware of the real story of the bible)
and, therefore, the comment about woman-hating stands.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. I'm gonna get shit for this but I agree.

Everyone knows their periods attract bears. How can they lead the country under a constant bear threat?

[niyad]

18. please tell me you just made up that sig pic

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. This one?:

I'd love to say I did. But it's 100% real. I think it's from the '08 primary.

[niyad]

23. no, the bear

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Oh, yeah. It's a quote from the dumbest character in Anchorman (and that's saying a lot). I just

Googled the quote and found it under images.

[Charlemagne]

8. a buddy of mine did a lectrure on feminism for our friend's poli sci class

so he asked the class if there was a difference between guys and gals.

This freshman girl (I swear I am not making this up) says, "well yeah, there is a difference. I mean, women are supposed to stay at home and just do that sort of stuff. Its sorta how its supposed to be with morals and stuff. Men are supposed to work and women arent really." So im thinking: 1. Wow you really believe this in 2011 and are willing to admit it in front of a lecture hall full of your peers?!?!? and 2. Why are you even in college then?


She seemed nice enough. But that idea is still, apparently, somewhat common.

[Liquorice]

10. Of course it's not just fundamentalist Christians who hold these types of views. nt

[niyad]

15. your friend asked if there was a difference between "guys and gals"??? NOT women and men?

and, referring to a first-year college student as a girl??

(there have been a number of discussions about labels the last few days)

sad to say, there are far too many young women like the one your friend mentioned-- the brainwashing going on in the churches is truly distressing.

[Liquorice]

11. If a person doesn't have a penis, how in the world do you expect

that person to be president?? You can't be president without a penis! A penis guides and presides all on its own. Without a penis, a person is just not qualified! Obvi!

[niyad]

16. and when that penis goes places it shouldn't--- all hell breaks loose (well, when it is a DEM penis)

[supernova]

17. We should send Frothy our used napkins and tampons

Let him clean up after us for a change.

[chrisa]

19. Why does anyone care about what this guy said?

I mean, the fact that he selectively chose to be an aide to Santorum is all we need to know.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. It was not voluntary. He heard gods word. A person to person call. In his head.