Posted on 09/29/2005 9:57:34 AM PDT by Cool Chick
Everything is wrong with ABC's new show, "Commander in Chief."
It's not just that the show about the first female President is a weekly hour-long campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton. It's not just that conservatives are mean and evil on this propaganda hour.
It's that this is what a female President will be like as brought to you by Oprah and the women of "Desperate Housewives"--and the legions of female fans who love them. Do you want them picking the leader of the free world?
I don't.
Here's why. Every presidential election year, Harvard's Shorenstein Center conducts 26 polls. Each time, the school finds that women didn't quite know what was going on. Men, on the other hand, were more likely, during the preceding day, to have thought about the elections, talked about it, and read or heard about it on the news.
The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center does a similar set of polls and studies each presidential election year, conducted by two women professors. The results of these studies are even more disturbing. Out of 25 questions on policy issues, women lag behind the men on most of them. In 2000, women lagged behind men in knowledge of all policy issues but one (on which they were equal).
The men knew more about the Presidential candidates' positions on taxes, weapons treaties, gun control, and even "traditional women's issues"--healthcare, education, and abortion.
Sorry, but I don't want "Thelma and Louise," Star Jones, and the women of "Desperate Housewives" picking my President. Keep them out of the ballot box and busy whining, crying, and obsessing over a broken nail and the handsome plumber next door, instead.
The women voters in these surveys bested the men on one issue: They . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
I've heard that that photo of her is quite old, and the current edition of Debbie is, ahem, considerably larger.
"Funny thing is, the most competent, smart, savvy and interesting women I know are all conservative. And you don't want to mess with them. Go figure."
I'd rather be in a foxhole with Schlussel and Coulter than Susan Estritch and Helen Thomas any day.
I mean politically, get your minds out of the gutter ;)
I keep telling my wife that we should modify the 19th amendment. Republican women can keep on voting, but if they're an Oprah worshipping shoe monkey, they're out.
That's because they actual think! -- a conservative woman in California
Yes, I have the same understanding.
"Not all conservative women are babes..."
I don't know about that, there's something appealing about a woman who can get through a sentence without whining.
This propaganda piece won the TV ratings war this past Tuesday night, but I think that's due to the fact that the debut was advertised with a fervor that one only sees in campaign advertising on the first Monday of November on even-number years; that, and the curiousity. I mean, a lot of people will stop and leer at a train accident. Let's see if the touchy-feely policy decisions of Geena Davis' president have the same draw in the weeks to come.
Especially with the baseball playoffs starting next week!
Son, is that you??
Your son is a bright young lad. I commend his mother on raising such a bright and perceptive American. The article speaks for itself and supports my and your son's opinions. In all honesty, I would not repeal the 19th. Amendment, but some adjustments to candidate and voter qualification need to be made. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, notwithstanding......................;^)
Yikes. Quite a bit of difference.
Read her bio. Amazing.
Wow. If I wasn't already married...
"Yikes. Quite a bit of difference."
Cut her some slack, it's a crummy picture. Besides there's nothing wrong with a woman with a little meat on her bones.
Oh yes, she's a two-face...
Seinfeld: "Like the Batman villain?!"
History has shown that every democracy has failed as it expanded "rights" to the people. I would say that 20% of the American voters know WHY they cast a vote for an individual. Everyone else votes for a President like they vote for the next American Idol. Democracy can ONLY succeed with a serious and intelligent electorate.
Remember, Dole won the male vote in 1996.
Men had a better clue than women what was up then.
Having emotion, not reason, drive politics is a great way to destroy a civilization.
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