These female conservative candidates.

[SnakeEyes]

I'm already tired of hearing about it. It hasn't even been 24 hours yet and the media has already brought up the number of conservative women that won last night more times than we ever hear when a liberal women wins. It was as if women had never won before.

Was there some orchestrated plan by national Republicans to get women nominated and make it seem like voting Republican is voting for women or something?

[Militant_Populist]

1. People have been voting against their own best interests for some time

What's new?

[kctim]

5. Now thats funny

:rofl:

[Staph]

2. I sent a note to Chris Matthews last night on the same subject.

Mr. Matthews:

I have just finished watching the MSNBC coverage of today's primary election. For the most part it was excellent. Your choice of guests, who spoke politely while still putting forth their political points, was a refreshing change from most of the annoyingly loud election coverage of the last decade.

However (and didn't you just know that there would be a "however"!), I have a problem with the notion that this is the political year of the Republican woman. Just because Republicans Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman won their primaries does not make it so.

Let's look at a little history:

• There are at present 17 women senators -- 13 Democrats and 4 Republicans. Since the first women senator in 1922 (Democrat Rebecca Felton of Georgia), there have been 38 women senators -- 25 Democrats and 13 Republicans.
  
• Since the election of 2000, nine Democratic women and two Republican women have been elected to the US Senate.
  
• Carly Fiorina won her primary, trying to replace Barbara Boxer, who has represented California in the Senate for 17 years, serving with Dianne Feinstein, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992.
  
• There are at present six women governors -- three from each party. Historically, there have been 32 women governors -- 21 Democrats and 12 Republicans. And there has been one female mayor of Washington, DC -- Democrat Sharon Pratt Kelly -- the equivalent of a US governor.
  
• There have been 229 women who have served in the House of Representatives -- 150 Democrats and 79 Republicans. At present there are 59 Democratic women and 17 Republican women in the House, including the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
  
  
  
  It looks to me as if the Republican woman are playing catch-up!
  
  Signed,
  Staph

[Vickers]

9. Excellent letter. n/t

[OHdem10]

3. Since the women won, the GOP are capitalizing on this. It makes

them appear more diversified, they believe.

[DFW]

4. Let's not overlook a major detail:

Both Fiorina and Whitman poured multimillions of THEIR OWN FORTUNES into their campaigns.

Give me $68 million, and I'll get elected to Congress, myself. The nominations were bought.

[SnakeEyes]

14. On the positive side...

There are women with that have earned that kind of money. The bad side is they aren't helping other women get it nor do they believe in spreading their wealth around.

[DFW]

17. Oprah WInfrey earned that kind of money, too

She didn't travel the same road, did she?

Republicans rarely believe in spreading wealth. They believe in accumulating it.

[SnakeEyes]

18. She could and should be doing more

I don't look to Oprah as the role model. That woman is worth $1.5B. Spread more of that wealth please.

[ProgressiveVictory]

15. all nominations are bought. they just had more money to spend

[4lbs]

6. Well, Democrats have had leading female candidates (and winners) for about two decades now.

It's old news when it's Democratic female that wins.

It's relatively new in the Good Ole' Boy party.

Elijah Cummings was on Ed yesterday, and he said the GOP was taking a page out of the Democratic handbook that was being used for decades.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. RICH conservative women... Wow, I'm shocked. Shocked.

[Bitwit1234]

8. It a goat ran as a republican and won the MSM would play

it up like they always do anything republican.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Well, you gotta admit, a goat winning would be newsworthy no matter the party. nt

[blindpig]

10. Demographics

Demographics are against them in the medium and long run, they are desperate for some new constituency.

[2Design]

12. lots of stepford wives - aaarggghhh - very ignorant people coming up in the world = third world

[one_voice]

13. Well they can thank...

Hillary, Nancy, and all the other leading Dem women. They wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell if the Dems didn't force their hand in this.

Much like after Obama was elected, low and behold, Michael Steele got a big ole bump up. Too bad all the people they're "using" are going to be disasters. Look at Steele's track record, and Palins, and Bachmanns they're all screw up and/or idiots. And of course the list goes on.

[KharmaTrain]

16. Image Do-Over...

Look at the GOOP's favorite MILF...(Moron I'd Like To See Fail) from Alaska. She admits its "Tawd" who makes the decisions, she's an empty skirt. Well, not entirely. In the GOOP world, she's "hawt"...when she winks and wears those biker jackets, it's a big difference from the days when the "sexiest" rushpublican was Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

Yes, I'm :cynical:, but I also see some marketing at work here...sex sells and we've seen the GOOP bosses go to the lowest common denominator to steal a vote. They've got a "token" at the RNC who isn't there other than for "image". Call it the "Faux effect", but the GOOP have found out that the incidiary rhetoric works better when it comes from a female piehole rather than a male one.