Remember the “Gender Gap?”
How about targeting “Soccer Moms?”
Yesterday the Conservative movement took a huge leap forward as women reigned supreme in several primaries. There are a lot of women who feel their turn at the Presidency was stolen by an unknown, well spoken Black man. They knew their candidate was better prepared to deal with the responsibilities of leadership and yet watched Hillary’s campaign get bludgeoned by a media in love with the idea of a black President. Every time she stomped him in a primary the talking heads would be on television saying that the victory meant nothing and that Obama had an untouchable lead- even as he lost time after time.
Most women voted for him because he was their only pro choice choice in the election. But there was a simmering underlying anger that Obama had displaced their “one”. While women out pace men in the job market- particularly in the white collar world– they have been denied the big prize in the political world. The current President gives lip service to women, but white, straight, women are beginning to realize that this White House is barely more concerned about them than white men. He is the first President who is black but more honestly Obama is the first Black President and he behaves as a “Black” President would. His non stop attempts to “share” money from the white community with the black community has many successful white women feeling the “white man’s burden”. Part of this realization is that sharing other people’s wealth and labor is not “fair”, nor does it create “justice”. It simply rewards bad behavior and punishes good behavior. Now that women can achieve financial success as well as men, and they see the other side of the socialist argument of the left (as the victim, rather than recipient), they are starting to align with conservatives on financial if not moral issues.
This November will be a major coming out party for strong conservative women. Enjoying widespread national sentiment to lower the debt and cut government spending, and with an invigorated white female vote, the Republicans and Tea Party members should be ecstatic come November.
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JFesta,
You are correct, as is Blowhard. The simple question is, Now that liberal working women are getting a realistic, upclose view of liberal policies in action by a “Real Liberal”,
will they want to remain liberal or working?
It won’t be both.
Clinton was a mainstream liberal. Meaning, “kinda” liberal. He remained in favor by jumping on the “Contract with America” train, and the economy stayed strong and in the “Right” direction. Soccer mom’s and working women love to shop, do they not?
I suspect the non-working entitlement women, like the one who aksed Obama, “Will you get me a new refriderater?” at a town meeting, and then actually showed up the next year compaining because she honestly expected someone to get her a new refridgerater. She will do what Liberals who live off entitlements always do, keep their hand out and hope for more.
As for the rest of working America, I just hope the old black community boast to all women, “When you go black, you’ll never go back”, isn’t referring to our economy.
J,
The point I was making is not that women will automatically vote for a woman candidate. It was that now that women are fairly successful working outside the home, they see the weaknesses in the argument of the left regarding equality and justice. More woman can now see the injustice in our tax code and how “feel good” policy tends to create a spiral downward rather than a hand up.
Sarah Palin was picked to bring some life to a campaign that was in dire need of spirit and public interest. She did not, nor has any other Vice Presidential nominee, effect the outcome. The same was true when Geraldine Ferraro was picked by a dull candidate who was fighting off the stink of the administration with which he was affiliated. No VP nominee has ever affected the final outcome of a candidacy. McCain lost his election, as did Mondale. Mondale picked Ferraro because he couldn’t get the stink of Jimmy Carter off his back, and McCain picked Palin to hopefully get some of the slighted women and get the stink of Bush off his back.
I agree that Democrat women won’t vote for a conservative woman just because she is a woman, but independent women may be swayed or convinced to make the effort to vote. Mainly the party of the “old boy network” will have much gentler features this November while the Democrats will have Harry Reid, Jerry Brown, and a host of other old, white, power brokers.
If women are upset with Obama for winning over Hillary Clinton, they have only one person to blame; Hillary Clinton. Her campaign was based on taking the majority of primaries on Super Tuesday giving her an insurmountable lead that would lead to her opponents dropping out or playing catch up all the way to the Convention.
What happened was she vastly underestimated Obama’s campaign which won 50% of the Super Tuesday Primaries keeping him competitive, and followed that up with a month of victories while Clinton tried to regroup. Ego and poor strategy killed her chances to be president in 2008, not the media, and not Obama. If she and her staff had planned for primary battles after Super Tuesday she quite possibly could have won the nomination. She didn’t and she lost.
This same logic was applied when Sarah Palin was picked as the Vice Presidential nominee and we saw in the general election it doesn’t work. Liberal women who align themselves with the Democratic Party will not vote for a Conservative Republican woman simple because they have the same anatomical parts.