“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Isaac Asimov
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken
We have been spared Mencken’s outcome just one more time with Bachmann’s departure, err, suspension, of her campaign.
Sine when is Hillary not the wife of someone? She has done a good job as Secretary of State, but she has gotten where she is because she was married to a President, and her relationship with him was also a factor in her not getting the nomination.
I agree that women need to find a strong, independent (i.e. not a politician’s wife) candidate, but Hillary isn’t it.
In '16 Warren will only be 2/3 through her first senate term, so it’s a little pie-in-the-sky. Who’d vote for a first-term senator? She’d have to start campaigning before the new paint in her new office dries.
'20 or '24 would be more realistic, although she’ll already be 71 in 2020.
She served eight years in the Senate and by most accounts she’s done a good job as secretary of state. She wouldn’t have gotten to that point without being married to a former president, but she’s very capable in her own right and who knows what she would have done if she hadn’t been married to Bill Clinton. It’s not like she was a rich housewife who decided to get into politics in 2000. Regardless, I think it’s very unlikely she’ll be running for president in 2016.
*Looks like it’s over, you knew you couldn’t stay
Your just Bat Sh-t Crazy that-a way.
We had a good thing, I’ll miss your stupit sh-t
Why must you look at me that way?
It’s over
Mad Eyes, turn the other way
I don’t wanna see you cry
Mad Eyes, you knew there’d come a day
When we would have to say ‘goodbye’
Try to remember the people that you scared
In time your broken heart will mend
I never used you (cause I never really cared)
But don’t let cameras hit you in the end.
It’s over…
Mad Eyes, turn the other way
I don’t wanna see you cry
Mad Eyes, you knew there’d come a day
When we would have to say ‘goodbye’… :D*
Women voting on the issued and not gender is the greatest sign of equal participation in politics. Even if it means that it would take more years to elect a woman (because women will not rally around the female candidate simply because she has a vagina) it shows that women vote like they should: issues.
Agreed on both counts. If she hadn’t kept defending the decision to invade iraq throughout the pre-primary, I don’t think Obama would have won Iowa. If Obama hadn’t won Iowa, he would never have won the primary.
Presidential candidates don’t stop running, they run out of money and Rick raised so much money before he opened his mouth that he can coast through to South Carolina without worrying about raising another dime. By that time he may be the only conservative who still has enough money to run against Romney.
A LOT of people are very capable in their own right but they would never hold high public office. If she hadn’t been married to Bill Clinton, she would be a partner at some large law firm or investment bank.
I think Santorum would be a better place to put her support. He is a LOT smarter and pretty conservtive by msot accounts.
If a conservative wins this primary, Romney should be their running mate. Like Reagan and Papa Bush.
Gingrich seems to have devoted himself to attacking Romney and doing nothing else, and I think Perry is essentially skipping New Hampshire to focus on South Carolina. So it seems like they should both be around through January 21.
She was involved in politics before she met him, so this comment makes me think you don’t know much about her background.
It will be interesting to see if he allows this to happen. The evangelicals are dubious about Romney already - if he or his PACs start to throw dirt at Santorum, the new evangelical champion, will they see it as proving that those damn Mormons hate real Christians? Doing it to Newt, who no one really likes, was a lot safer.
Romney is very vulnerable to charges of flip-flopping on social issues, which Newt can’t exploit but Santorum can, and that his company destroyed other companies for profit. Not sure if any Republicans can use that, but the Dems can - and maybe Newt.
The problem is when you start off by trying to find a strong female candidate, rather than by trying to find a strong candidate who happens to be female. It’s the same thing with race: A decade or two ago, everyone who considered the possibility of a black president was thinking of someone like Jesse Jackson, who really wears his race on his sleeve. But the actual first black president was Obama, and you’d have to go pretty far down his campaign platform to find anything in it that’s at all relevant to race specifically.
If you go into an election looking for a candidate, without regards to gender, it might be a while before you end up with a woman, just because that might be the way the coin flips work out (especially since the coin is biased by there being fewer women in politics to begin with). But if you go in specifically looking for a woman, you’ll never find one, since you’re doing the wrong kind of search.
She’d have to start campaigning before the new paint in her new office dries.