I don’t think Ann Coulter is a good example of mainstream conservatives. She gets attention because she acts outrageous and outside of the norm.
I suspect that you’d find most people would consider themselves “moderate” and that extreme liberals or extreme conservatives are both “rare”.
Count me as a libertarian/conservative.
Some prominent conservative/right-wing women who aren’t Ann Coulter-
Phyllis Schlafly
Beverly LaHaye
Taylor Caldwell (late)
Ayn Rand (late)
Laura Ingraham (smarter, wittier & hotter on her worst day than Coulter on her best)
Monica Crowley (brainy and smokin’!)
Barbara Olsen (late- 9/11)
Arianna Huffington when sane ( 
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Margaret Thatcher
Peggy Noonan
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Sen. Elizabeth Dole
Condoleeza Rice
Now- if I was cruisin’, I’d ask any conservative/right-wing single, Indiana-area, chubby-chasing women around here?
I tend to be Conservative on the non-religious issues and liberal on the religious ones (that is, I’m not religious, so I’m not influenced on those issues). When I take the Political Compass test, I am very close to dead center with a slight bias to economically conservative and socially liberal.
My wife, mother, and sister-in-law are conservative because they feel it is more compassionate.
Don’t forget Michelle Malkin and Mona Charen.
Extremists in general are actually pretty rare.
Exactly.
I’m surprised you find conservative women so rare. I find about equal numbers of liberal and conservative.
Not me, I’m as left liberal as they come. In this family my Mom, my four sisters, and I all vote Democrat. My Dad votes Republican. My family is a walking gender gap.
My mom and sister are both quite conservative, but I attribute it more to being married to extremely conservative husbands and surrounding themselves socially with people from church.
If you speak to them one-on-one, they really don’t seem to know too much about politics and my mom will even starts a political debate with me, quit in the middle of it claiming that I’m just too blind to see The Truth, and then later email me with something her husband came up with or worse, wait until I’m hanging out with both of them to rekindle the argument and let my step-dad do the arguing. :smack:
I wonder if this could attribute for the gap between single women and married women.
I’d be interested to see how many conservative women are married to liberal-leaning men.
Not only am I a conservative…I am a die-hard Southern Texas Conservative! And I offer no apologies for it.
No need to apologize, those are the hottest kind.
Well, there’s Mary Matalin and James Carville.
You are speculating that hoards of meek women are under the mental control of domineering husbands. However, everything I have read suggests that the more conservative shift occurs in women because they buy a house (and the taxes and responsibility to go with it), move to the 'burbs (different values than the city), and have kids (all kinds of conservative ideas go with that).
Simple huh?
Hoards? Nooo. I only stated that in my experience, the conservative women I know really didn’t give a toss about politics before they married conservative men.
I will agree that politically knowledgable women may become more conservative due to homeownership, the suburbs and the onset of parenthood, but I do think that it’s kind of knee-jerk to immediately throw out terms like “mental control” and “domineering husbands”. I can promise you that the women I referenced above honestly don’t know much about politics and listen to their husbands because they trust their husbands values, not because they are victims or stepford wives. :rolleyes:
Could my mom and sister be the only women in this country who behave this way? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Good call.
Real quick, I wanted to figure out where I fall politically w/o taking one of those simple tests that may or may not be libertarian propaganda :D. I know I’m hijacking, but it’s my thread and I don’t want to start a new one just for something as small as my personal political beliefs:
I’m secular humanist, I don’t believe in absolutes (moral, etc.); I’m agnostic who could go either way but doesn’t cling to any self-made philosophy about the nature of existence or a creator (but I am strongly opposed to religion, believing as many of you do that all the ones on earth are clearly mythologies or scams but that contain truth and wisdom, yet we’d be better off living in a rational secular humanist state); so basically I agree w/ Nietzschen (sp?) ideas of creating a moral self yet I admit that it leaves room for Hitlers and such; I support government’s role in keeping a state of order, even if I agree that we depend too much upon the government in some ways and that the government has many flaws, including corruption, a failure to inform its citizens on numerous laws, etc.; I am anti-abortion, even in instances of rape or incest (yep, one of those sec. hum. anti-choice dudes), unless childbirth is gonna kill the mother, b/c adoption is the thing to do; I believe in foreign aid, and in welfare, but I think we should work hard to make sure that only those who truly need it are using it; and I don’t hate racist people, or bigots, even the extremists, feeling that liberal media and liberal tyranny (even on these boards 
) and political correctness is too strong in America; and I support free speech, press, religion, etc.; and I absolutely dislike Presiden’t Bush’s religious beliefs as they pertain to how he makes decisions, and the religious direction the country is moving. I wish Kerry had won, so that we could curb this radical religious movement.
As for the Iraq war, I support it, b/c Democracy is the wave of the future (58% of the world’s pop. lives under it); not that any government is ‘good’ or ‘worse’ than any other (no absolutes), but that’s the way human history is moving. Plus living in this country is a billion (literally) times better than 99% of the world.
But I’m conservative in my views on the fact that a strong family household and education are essential in order to raise good citizens.