Posted on 05/10/2009 5:17:38 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
GOP women: A minority in a minority By: Erika Lovley May 10, 2009 07:01 PM EST
Women make up almost 51 percent of the U.S. population but less than 10 percent of the House and Senate GOP — a gender disconnect that could make the Republicans’ climb back to power even steeper than it would be otherwise.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) notices that she’s part of a shrinking minority every time she heads to the Senate floor for a vote.
Republican women in the House say they feel the problem — literally — when their male colleagues nudge them to the front of GOP press conferences to break up the solid lines of middle-aged white men in neckties.
Indeed, Rep. Kay Granger — the first and only Republican woman to represent Texas in the House — says Republican women have to work to make sure they’re even represented at public events in the first place. “We pass the word to make sure we’re there at this ceremony or that photo-op, because there are fewer of us and we’re spread more thinly,” Granger said. “We’re working in a very successful manner, and we want to make sure that’s shown.”
The numbers make that difficult.
Out of 435 members of the House, just 17 are Republican women. Of 99 sitting senators, just four are Republican women.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) notices that she’s part of a shrinking minority every time she heads to the Senate floor for a vote.”
She’s no Republican! Nonsense, indeed!
Really, do we need to listen to this crap again?
They’re missing the real story — that gender politics doesn’t get any traction with Republican women VOTERS.
And a minority that ex-Washington Post writers can make fun of with impunity.
And yet some of our conservative leaders are women, like Sarah Palin and Rep. Bachman (from Minnesota).
Wonder how many black women in the senate? or black men for that matter. Hmmmmmmm. Seems like black senators are a shrinking minority.
A higher percentage of women voters are Democrat. Does this article address the inequity of elected men versus women in that party?
Name one Reagan conservative Republican woman in Congress.
Yet the GOP won the white women vote by a greater margin than Obama won overall and the media keeps telling us he had this landslide voctory. So by that logic, the GOP won a landslide among white women.
Which party actually nominated a woman on their ticket?
Well, the dems had a woman for VP in 04 so I guess it evens out.
You men need to start marrying the women you’re fooing around with:
“Continuing a pattern established in the 2000 elections, married women supported the conservative, pro-life candidate for President (Senator McCain) while unmarried women supported the liberal, pro-abortion candidate (Senator Obama). According to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research’s (GQR) analysis of the Edison/Mitofsky National Election Pool numbers, there was a 44-point difference in the voting patterns of married women and unmarried women. GQR concludes that the overwhelming support of unmarried women made Barack Obama the president-elect rather than John McCain.”
I wonder what misogynist media smearing of women like Palin and Ms. Prejean do to conservative women aspiring to serve?
I have a guess. It powerfully deters them— which is the purpose of our woman hating press, academia, and Beltway elite.
Maybe we could burn Palin’s church— oh wait— thats been done.
But she IS part of a shrinking minority. They’re called RINO’s!
I sure hope so!
A true conservative woman would be raked over the coals by the MSM.
It takes a tough woman to endure that kind of savagery.
You men need to start marrying the women you’re fooling around with. . .
Ick. Nobody wants to marry those women. Ann Coulter would argue that, on the whole, it would be better to repeal the 19th Amendment.
Michelle Bachman (R-Minnesota), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) and Kay Grainger (R-Texas) come immediately to mind and there are probably others.
AMEN!
I spent a few days with a liberal woman who thinks successful women of all professions have a responsiblity to "mentor" other women. I think it's a bunch of bullsh*t -- I think that except in the interesting social dynamics of the gig, the person's sex is irrelevant. As a successful architect lady who ignored women's professional organizations put it to me once: There's only one thing that matters. Are you professional?
The women who fall the hardest for the idea that women need other women involved in order to succeed, are usually Liberals (they call themselves Democrats). Conservative women don't even think in terms of "women's" this or that -- they think in terms of the principles or profession being delivered. The sex is irrelevant.
What’s even rarer is a conservative women in Congress. For some reason, women pander to the emotional crowd, and almost all have immoral social values, which include gay tolerance and abortion
Bachmann grilling Bernanke and Geithner ov er a “one-world currency” last month made her my new favorite Congressperson!
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