tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post9052308582703172656..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: Where are the Republican women?janinsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-52495784300883949142015-06-05T01:51:02.462-07:002015-06-05T01:51:02.462-07:00Once upon a time there were pro-choice Republicans...Once upon a time there were pro-choice Republicans and pro-life Democrats.Brandonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-84035369151310331572015-06-04T18:38:52.275-07:002015-06-04T18:38:52.275-07:00There is a kind of Republican woman who is sociall...There is a kind of Republican woman who is socially conservative but pro choice. I've known several, like my aunt. They are not happy with the party as it is now. They are intelligent, secular in outlook and are perfectly ok with gay rights, racial equality and equal rights for women. They came up at a time when becoming Republican was a status marker of upward mobility. It's no longer that! There have been just that handful of distinguished Republican women in the past,but the current crop is pretty awful.<br />Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-67223757137196104952015-06-04T07:12:00.465-07:002015-06-04T07:12:00.465-07:00I recommend to you the blog of Steve Sailer (www.u...I recommend to you the blog of Steve Sailer (www.unz.com). Sailer has for a long time argued that it's more a gap between the married and the unmarried (married women are much, much more prepared to vote Republican, but obviously less prepared to act as candidates). This view - it's above all a marriage gap - finds more and more traction in the mainstream press, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-87432529195721424742015-06-03T15:46:01.443-07:002015-06-03T15:46:01.443-07:00Hi Brandon: The Rep woman you have in the leg (Thi...Hi Brandon: The Rep woman you have in the leg (Thielen) is exactly the sort of Republican the article I got the chart from says no longer runs for Congress -- too hard to win the primary. <br /><br />I'm not going to pretend that some Dems are not pretty crazy, but the bonkers seem to have infested the Republicans big time these days.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-33862298833594085672015-06-03T11:36:42.164-07:002015-06-03T11:36:42.164-07:00The photo of 2016 potential Republican candidates ...The photo of 2016 potential Republican candidates (your post of 31 May) includes two women. I recognized Carly Fiorina but wondered who the other woman was. Looking at it now I had a hunch she was the governor of New Mexico, and it <i>is</i> Susana Martinez.<br /><br />In Hawaii we've had a few Republican women in government through the years, most famously Pat Saiki and Linda Lingle (the former governor). I think Cynthia Thielen is the only Republican woman in the Hawaii Legislature, and she's very moderate, even liberal compared to some of her counterparts in mainland legislatures (she voted in favor of the same-sex marriage bill) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAjs4OrNT4M<br /><br />The condition of being "bonkers" is not exclusive to one party.:)Brandonnoreply@blogger.com