Raise your hand if you thought we'd go 24+ years w/o another female VP nom

[Bucky]

In 1984, Walter Mondale was in an uphill fight and went for a "Hail Mary" pass (well, technically a Hail Geraldine) by nominating the first female vice presidential candidate from a major party. How many of us thought we'd go a whole quarter of century with neither party trying it again? Republicans, who've suffered from a gender gap problem, probably have the most to gain from nominating a woman, so I'm kinda surprised they haven't. But it's not like we have any dearth of XX talent (as opposed to XY talent, so get your mind out of the gutter, Matcom). Look at the line up of women contenders we could be choosing among...


. . Kathleen Sebelius . . . . . . Maria Cantwell . . . . . . . . Patty Murray


. . . Janet Napolitano . . . . . . Shirley Franklin . . . . . . and probably some people I haven't even thought of.

I think it's a shame that we're wasting so much of our political talent in this country. We'll scrape the bottom of the barrel to hire any old assclown to be president, but the only woman our party is seriously considering right now is there in large part because she happened to be married to a former president. (I mean no disrespect to Senator Clinton, but a first termer with only a moderate amount of leadership success isn't going to get "mentioned" unless some candidates just get free passes (or the opposition desperately wants to run against her).

I don't go in much for tokenism when it comes to candidates; leaders should stand and fall on their own talents. But certainly there's enough silence, enough "dogs that didn't bark," among these non-candidates to wonder why none of them are getting any serious buzz. What are we doing wrong?



PS, the best kept political secret of this decade: Sebelius has green hair.

http://6news.ljworld.com/art/apps/pennynews/1080978356_Sebelius,-Kathleen-602.jpg

[Conker]

1. I never really understood why so many oppose a female president.

I am a male, and I do not see anything wrong with it.I also think it is wrong that women get paid less than men.I read somewhere that in polls even most women oppose having a female president.Is America really that sexist?Are you sure that women have a hard time voting GOP when several prominent conservatives are women (Hatcher, etc.)?

[cap]

2. yes it is that sexist

look at all the sermons on submission...it doesnt bother the majority of Americans that women are paid less or dont move up the corporate ranks.

The vast majority of men never talk to their HR departments or their bosses about why this is so wrong. Women may get support outside of work from sympathetic males. But no male will go to HR or to Senior management and state that this state of affairs is morally wrong and that it should be corrected immediately.

It might give you an idea why we have not had a woman president

[Maine-ah]

3. personally, I don't think it's the many that oppose a female pres

the problem is, is that old rich white men (a handful) are the ones running this country. And until the (few) old rich white men are no longer running the country, don't expect it to happen.

[ComerPerro]

4. women are so emotional and can't make important decisions

so, therefore, its better to have a reckless, drug-abusing, moronic cowboy-wannabe asshole in the White House.

I mean, sure, Bush screwed everything up.

But imagine if a woman was president on 9/11!

Not only would she not have found Osama, but she probably would have been so emotional and irrational that she might have done something really insane, like maybe attacked another country that had nothing to do with 9/11...

[Cruzan]

5. It's something I've never given much thought to

To me, it'll happen when it happens, maybe more likely as president than VP. In Britain, nobody in any collective sense decided they needed a woman PM. Thatcher rose to the top wholly organically. It would seem that'll be the way here also. It's just a matter of things coming together and the right woman at the right time. And I don't think that'll be Hillary; she's just too polarizing to make practical political sense.

[AnnInLa]

6. One of my most prized possessions is

a large red campaign button with a pic of Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro on it and the number '84. Wonder if it is worth anything?

[Rageneau]

7. I thought pot would be legal for over 20 years by now, too.

[dsc]

8. Women have had a tough time breaking out

Despite having much better numbers than African Americans in terms of being elected to statewide offices, they haven't been able to break through. For what it is worth, a close friend of Al Gore's who I know says that he really wanted Feinstein in 2000 but she turned him down for family reasons.

[DELUSIONAL]

9. NEVER NEVER Maria Cantwell -- she is NOT a democrat

she is a DINO.