What contributed the most to the current Female Prominence in GOP?
You can look at this two ways.
One, you can talk about the success that Hillary Clinton had in battering down peoples’ perceptions of women campaigning for President.
Two, you can ask whether a low-level Congresswoman and a former Governor, neither of whom have any more chance of getting the nomination than you or I, count as prominent or merely media-friendly.
Or you can figure two isn’t exactly a major trend.
You might want to explain this further. Women aren’t exactly very prominent in the GOP. You currently have 2 very high profile women(Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin) catching a lot of press attention only one of which holds an elected position. The aren’t prominent in the GOP.
If the GOP had any particular devotion to making women prominent themselves they’d probably probably have a better ration then 10-1(male to female)at the federal level. When it comes to positions of importance they have an even worse ratio.
So I think a better question might be why does our news media raise female GOP members to prominence? My guess is it’s like filming an endangered species, they are a rarity many people are interested in seeing because it’s so out of the ordinary.
I’m reminded of a comment I read from a black Republican several election cycles ago; that he found it outright creepy how at the Republican convention all the cameras would constantly follow him.
Maybe they thought he was going to steal something.
Seriously, you see that at other televised GOP events as well. Tea Party rallies too. “I told you we’re not racist. See that black guy the camera man is poi… Hey! Where’s that ni…black guy? Find him. Get him back on camera!”
It’s like the old joke: How do you find out how many black people there are in the Republican party? You watch the convention footage and count them.
Wake me up when the Republicans have a reasonable, ordinary looking female candidate.
Attractive female talking heads is a Fox ploy, but I can tell you it worked in school, too.
Meg Whitman and Sharron Angle were extremely unattractive and very prominent GOP candidates in 2010. Carly Fiorina was also prominent and pretty average looking for her age. Whitman and Fiorina were both pretty reasonably by modern Republican standards. Of course, they all lost to Democrats. Not sure what that means.
I just meant at the national stage. I’d consider Angle more of a fringe Tea Party lunatic, but perhaps I’m giving them too much credit. Whitman was just someone with a lot of money to spend on herself. Saw both of them (outside of California) more as sound bites than with deep interviews, etc. The three Republican women candidates I’ve heard the most about are Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Christine O’Donnell. All are reasonably attractive.
BTW, Fiorina’s biggest accomplishment at HP was the acquisition of Compaq, which caused a proxy fight with one of the founder’s sons. Last week there was a rumor that HP will divest itself of it’s PC division. She’s clearly a visionary.
There are many, many female Republican congress people, governors and state legislators, some of whom far predate Hillary Clinton’s run for office. It’s as much a myth that Republicans are sexist as it is that they are racist.
Yes, and so what? The fact is that the current prominence of females in the presidential race is due to Hillary Clinton’s being the first female candidate to have a serious chance at winning the nomination. That took down what had been a stigma against women as not having a chance and not being serious at the highest level. It’s straight line traceable back to 2008.
For Fox, “diversity” means occasionally having a brunette read the news.
There are more than twice as many female Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Which is to say the Democrats are less sexist?.. The number of elected females in the Democratic party tends to be a 5-1 ratio male to female. Compared to the Republicans they are only half as sexist!
As a whole if you compare elected female federal officials as a percentage, America ranks very poorly. We rank below 89 other countries including countries like China, Afghanistan and The United Arab Emirates.
As a whole our voters are pretty sexist.
But hey we’re better then Saudi Arabia, Oman and Quatar! Of course that could change if women in those countries are allowed to run for office.
We can sit back and claim the Republicans are more sexist then the Democrats rather then look at the country as a whole, but maybe one should watch where they are throwing stones.
USA USA we’re number on… er 90 we’re number 90!
My response was to poster’s partisan claim of “many, many female Republican congress people”, I felt it worth noting that in fact that the Democrats have considerably more female representatives. I said nothing at all about the myth bullshit in the post. I guess I should have cut that part out of the quote, but I don’t usually edit people’s quotes to remove one sentence.
Grrr, missed edit window. To clarify, I was curious how many “many, many” was, so I looked it up and discovered that there weren’t a lot and that most female representatives in federal politics were Democrats, which I was not aware of since I am not an American. I posted the information since I had it. Perhaps in future I should keep my discoveries to myself.
Partisan? It’s simply a fact. It’s also a fact that when compared with the two female Republicans who were previously drawing all the electrons in this thread, the number of women who have served and who do serve in Republican politics is indeed “many”. The fact that you come up with more on the other side, or in other countries, means nothing in that regard. The Republicans don’t have as many women serving for the same reason they don’t have as many blacks serving - the left has convinced them that Republicans are the enemy. The truth is that any woman and any black who embraces conservative values are as welcome in both the party and elective office (and on the Supreme Court, as the head of the party, or as National Security Advisor/Secretary of State) as anyone else.
Thanks, Starving Artist! I didn’t realize there were so few Republican women and minorities because liberals have poisoned their minds. Ignorance fought.
No, it’s the women and blacks who aren’t Republicans whose minds have been poisoned.
But I know what you mean, and thanks. It’s always gratifying when someone sees the light.