|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Feminist Wishes And White House Pipe Dreams | ||||||
| You've probably heard it a million times before: "I can't wait for Hillary to run in 2008, it's about time a woman became president!" If I hear this one more time, I just might scream, because seriously people, who are you kidding? Mark my words: a woman will never be president, not in our lifetime at least and probably in the next. As much as I hate to say it (well, not really, but I have to sound somewhat sympathetic), it is the truth because of the way our system is designed, so I must therefore ask the following question: what is it with the unfettering optimism of liberals and the pipe dream of getting a woman into the Oval Office? | ||||||
| According to the Drudge Report, "Supporters of California Sen. Barbara Boxer have launched an underwear line - with liberal radio network Air America hyping the goods!" The underwear, which reads "Boxer *08," is a thong and is not an officially endorsed Boxer product. Look, the underwear is cute and all, but please, people, let's be real here - Boxer doesn't have a fighting chance of becoming this country's first woman president. Plus, who in the world recommended marketing thong underwear, of all the types of undergarments available? The chicks who vote for Boxer are wearing either Depends diapers or granny panties, not thongs. Way to think it out. | ||||||
| Didn't we learn anything in 1984? During that election, Democrat Walter Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as his running-mate, making her the first woman to ever run for vice-president on a major party ticket. The results of that election were hardly what the Democrats had hoped for: they lost the popular vote by almost 20 percent, but more importantly, they won a measly 13 electoral votes. Republican ticket Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush won the White House, with a whopping 525 electoral votes. To make matters worse, out of the two states the Democrats won, neither one was New York or California (which are typically liberal and open to change), the former being the home of none other than Ferraro. | ||||||
| It's not only women that can't be president, either, lest any of you forget - non-presidential types also include minorities, Jews, the disabled, and any other non-WASP group. It's a fact of life, so just get over it. According to www.about.com, "Large majorities of Americans are personally comfortable with a woman president (76 percent) and with a woman as vice president (82 percent)," but are they really? Since 1872, more than 38 women have run for president in various parties, but none have won. Two of my personal favorites in the year 2000 were Monica Moorehead (for obvious reasons) who ran on the World Worker's Party, and Temperance Alesha Lance-Council (whose name sounds more like a psychological disorder than anything) of the Anti-Hypocrisy Party. If Americans are so ready for a woman president and they've had all these chances to vote for one, why hasn't one already won? Because they are not, in fact, ready for a woman to be president. | ||||||
| So, can a woman actually be president of the United States of America? Could she handle the job as well as a man could? Certain women probably could, but next comes the zinger: would you vote for a woman over a man for president? Most of America (including the majority of women voters) would say no. Whether that is fair or not is inconsequential - it's the way it is. Whether the Democratic Party learns that lesson in time for 2008 or if they are doomed to repeat what happened in 1984, remains to be seen. | ||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2005, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||||
| Back | ||||||