She (Ferraro) recalls the incident at a Hillary event where a couple of jokers held up a sign that said, “IRON MY SHIRT!” The media shrugged, Ferraro charges, but would have created crisis desks if someone had held a sign that said “SHINE MY SHOES!” at an Obama event.

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Whether you agree with most of her positions or not, that right there is a very powerful argument. I wouldn’t mind her joining Ed Koch on the trail campaigning against Barry.

I am fairly sure the first woman or black candidate to be elected president will be a republican

Not with the base of the GOP … this will never happen. Talk about an empty suit, finding a black top tier candidate in the GOP … you mean like Alan Keyes? Lynn Swan? Oh yeah, that QB from the Oklahoma Sooners?

Maybe the GOP will put forward a black candidate someday. It won’t be Colin Powell, he’s made that perfectly clear. Maybe my great grandchildren will see it someday when they are in their 60s.

The dhims have so poisoned their own well now with all the identity-politics victim groups at each other’s throats it’s actually hilarious to watch the ongoing circular firing squad.

A bona fide conservative woman or black presidential candidate would not only rally the entire republican base, the crossovers voting identity-only would bring a landslide victory and unify this country like never before.

Oh well, one can have a dream, can’t one?

Everything is a factor ladies, the way you talk, if your short or tall, if your fat or slim, charisma or no charisma, if your good looking or ugly, how you dress, how you walk…. everything, everything, everything is a factor, just as it should be.

So stop whining about it Ferraro, it just makes you look like you think the world owes you something simply because you are female and no one does. If you want to compete with men then that’s what you got to do. Bring a good message and all those other factors shrink to practically nothing.

Hillary winning a Senate seat coming directly out of the first lady’s office is not that big of an accomplishment. New York is a very BLUE state for national elections. With the exception of Reagan, I can’t remember another time New York went Red in a Presidential election.

Geraldine who?

The Race Card on May 20, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Obama/Ferraro

Just one more example of liberal insanity.

Larraby on May 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM

bulls eye

LOL, there chauvenism goes again. “On an emotional level, it’s easy to understand why females feel….” [fill in the condescending blank with chauvenistic empathy/Obama or compassion/Bush-McCain].

Hey, try “on an INTELLECTUAL LEVEL and on a PROFESSIONAL LEVEL” it is obvious that Hillary who has SOME experience was dropped by her party officials and the MSM in preference for a young, black male with NO experience.
maverick muse on May 20, 2008 at 11:19 AM

Oh, please. It’s not like Hillary had much more experience than Obama… unless you count being the wife of a former president as “experience”.

As Ed pointed out, the entire identity politics game is played on an emotional field, not an intellectual one.

That said- go make me a sammich.

This is a woman whose only notable accomplishment is holding on to the government’s teat no matter what humiliating exercise it drags her through. All self respecting women would have let go years ago. No matter, might as well drag the daughter through it all also.

In the private sector she was a complete failure at the Rose law firm. From her billings, to her cases, everything she touched ended up in scandal–with several participants going to jail. Her token promotions were timed with her husband’s up the food chain of Arkansas politics. Despite his constant known affairs, she stayed playing commodities in her spare time again with a broker who went to jail afterwards. Anything to hang on to the mansion. Her supposed educational efforts over eight years took Arkansas from 49th to 50th place.

In Washington she repeated the same. Everything she touched ended in failure with more people going to jail. When the usual affairs started she blamed it on a vast right wing conspiracy. She even tried to destroy a young intern, thankfully the blue dress lives! But no worries, anything to hang in the White House.

To the Senate where she has accomplished nothing in eight years. Nary a bill in her name. The plumb seats she has on committees, those from her husband, the rainmaker. Even her original Senate campaign was based on having a more qualified dem congress woman pushed aside by her cronies. Ah the memories. Hillary has quite the list and we haven’t even gotten to the “congenital lying”. Another day perhaps. Meanwhile quite the standard bearer for today’s modern woman.

I don’t know any women, right, left or center that respect Hillary. As to forgiving her husband a couple of times, very understandable. But when it comes to enabling, that speaks of very serious emotional problems such that we have half way houses to help deal with this for the less fortunate. No self effacing woman wants to be near her except for shills.

Hillary deserves every “bitch slap” (to use today’s jargon) she gets. Her hand is still numb from having done it to so many others.

As for the Clinton’s they can’t be gone soon enough, grifters the pair.

Try to imagine Hillary from the point of view of the White House Travel Office. You’re an ordinary bloke with a job in the White House, your family is proud of you, and you’re doing a good job. You are told you’re FIRED because Mrs. Clinton wants to bring in a very rich man from Hollywood to run the office from now on.

You have to close your eyes to a lot of crap to weep a single tear over Hillary. She was “passed over” because of a pattern of cold blooded treatment of other human beings. Maybe feminists have some special power that allows them to overlook such things. We old fashioned folks don’t have such a power. And thank God we don’t.

BTW-Have you looked at the poll numbers from California recently? Real polls, not the MSM push polls. What happened to your +15% lead over McCain? At the rate the trends are going you will lose California-thanks in part to you offending the Jewish voters and Hispanic voters. Those are votes you will never get back no matter how “charming” you are and no matter what you say or do.

Nahanni on May 20, 2008 at 3:31 PM

Here’s hoping the upcoming CA constitutional amendment referendum on the definition of marriage will bring out voters against Obama, as well.

I’m not overly optimistic on that front, and I still expect the state to go blue, but that ideological fight just made things more interesting out here in liberal loony-ville.

She recalls the incident at a Hillary event where a couple of jokers held up a sign that said, “IRON MY SHIRT!” The media shrugged, Ferraro charges, but would have created crisis desks if someone had held a sign that said “SHINE MY SHOES!” at an Obama event.

Good point.

I suspect that the percentage of women who do not want a woman President is as high or higher than that for men.

Thatcher probably appealed more to men than women. That is because she never perceived herself as the heir apparent.

But what the hell do I know?

Memo to Obama:

Paul Begula was right, sweetie.

You can not win with the Dukakis coalition.

BTW-Have you looked at the poll numbers from California recently? Real polls, not the MSM push polls. What happened to your +15% lead over McCain? At the rate the trends are going you will lose California-thanks in part to you offending the Jewish voters and Hispanic voters. Those are votes you will never get back no matter how “charming” you are and no matter what you say or do.

I’m looking out the window as I type now !

patrick neid on May 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM

Better check outside for black helicopters…

I think rockmom must be editing!