# What Contributed to Current Female Prominence in GOP **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 21, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499 "2011-08-21T02:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/21 "2011-08-22T05:15:54Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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. If you want to know why blacks and women lean away from the Republican party, that post will tell you. It’s because too many Republicans think that blacks and women are only capable of doing what they’ve been told and aren’t capable of thinking for themselves and seeing where their best interests lie. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/22 "2011-08-22T05:23:44Z")
That’s utter nonsense. It’s the women and blacks who are Republicans who have shown themselves able to think for themselves, and to suffer the slings and arrows of those on the left who would insist they be otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/23 "2011-08-22T05:36:00Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > No, it’s the women and blacks who _aren’t_ Republicans whose minds have been poisoned. So you’re saying that women and blacks are all too stupid to see what you can see? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/24 "2011-08-22T05:37:14Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > That’s utter nonsense. It’s the women and blacks who are Republicans who have shown themselves able to think for themselves Like Michele Bachmann saying she became a tax attorney because her husband told her to, and she believes that women have to submit to men? ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/25 "2011-08-22T08:15:04Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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. With a mind-poisoning machine as powerful as “the left” seems to have, one has to wonder why they haven’t pointed it at the white male. Or would the mind-poisoning machine, for some reason, not work on white men? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/26 "2011-08-22T11:29:34Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > That’s utter nonsense. It’s the women and blacks who are Republicans who have shown themselves able to think for themselves, and to suffer the slings and arrows of those on the left who would insist they be otherwise. That of course provided they are willing to sign a pledge saying women should submit to their husbands and black families were better off under slavery then they can be ‘real’ Republicans and even run for president. Maybe if people like Bachmann read and refused to sign such pledges your claims might be more believable. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/27 "2011-08-22T11:53:23Z")
I suspect it’s a reaction to the Conservative belief that the only reason Obama was elected was because he’s black- specifically, the novelty of a black Presidential candidate. They can’t have the first black President at this point, but they can certainly try to have the first woman President. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/28 "2011-08-22T13:49:17Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I suspect it’s a reaction to the Conservative belief that the only reason Obama was elected was because he’s black- specifically, the novelty of a black Presidential candidate. They can’t have the first black President at this point, but they can certainly try to have the first woman President. Yeah, too they have a moron and a lunatic vying for it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/29 "2011-08-22T15:04:27Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > That’s utter nonsense. It’s the women and blacks who are Republicans who have shown themselves able to think for themselves, and to suffer the slings and arrows of those on the left who would insist they be otherwise. Which is exactly what I said. You’re saying that women and blacks who aren’t Republicans aren’t able to think for themselves. They’re presumably being controlled by the white men of the Democratic Party. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/30 "2011-08-22T15:19:27Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Yeah, too they have a moron and a lunatic vying for it. Too BAD… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499/31 "2011-08-26T00:42:15Z")
The party of rich white old men is the bastion of freedom for women and blacks. Decades of resisting any inroads from women and blacks has just disappeared. My how rapidly the world goes retrograde. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contributed-to-current-female-prominence-in-gop/593499.md?page=1)