More Republican women than ever are planning to run for office
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nbcnews.comPosted Aug 26, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC
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nbcnews.comSo 4 of them ?
This are the junior members of the last election (House only)
Tell me if you spot a difference.
Here's the deal, ardent GOP ladies, you will lose your elections because GOP electorate is white males and that's it.
Smith said Trump's controversial remarks about women haven't made her question her party loyalty. Instead, they've actually strengthened her case for pursuing elected office now. "It is disparaging and I can recognize that, but it's not going to dissuade me from running," she added. "In fact, it would just say there's more of a reason to show that there are women who will stand up and be in the Republican party."
Lmao, good luck getting out of the primary by attacking Supreme Leader, you naive soul
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jesus, seeing those two groups next to each other like that is jarring. not new at all, but still lol
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So many of the gop guys look like sentient thumbs
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I like how the thumbnail shows 5 women. I was like yeah, that's probably more than ever.
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Not even a full binder. Jeez.
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Why is this woman a Republican? What cognitive gymnastics does her brain have to conduct to make her run as a Republican?
"An investment manager who is pro-choice, pro-gay rights and concerned about climate change, Ramirez Mukherjee said she's stepping up in the hope of helping to change the perception of her party. "There are so many people like me in the urban centers but we are all just in hiding and don't get a platform," said Ramirez Mukherjee, 46, who is Mexican-American and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "I want to get out there and show people that you can be a Republican and be considerate and kind and diverse," added Ramirez Mukherjee. "We need to have new role models in the party."
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Interesting, if she's sincere.
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Many have history and belive in the republican economic principles. If she can win and drag them kicking and screaming into the 19th century great.
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"I want to get out there and show people that you can be a Republican and be considerate and kind and diverse,"
But more common to be a Republican and be none of those things.
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White women have remained loyal to Trump and the GOP.
There was a theory back in 2016 that Republican wives would quietly vote for Clinton and lie to their MAGA husbands and pastors. lol not quite.
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Running and winning are different things entirely.
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So..... five?
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Are their husbands ok with this?
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If they are running against Republican males then they will lose. The people who support them will not also back them if there is an alternative male candidate. Sex trumps policy among Republicans
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And they won't win because republicans hate women
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Republican women can be bad people too...the few in Congress are wicked awful.
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So? As long as they are still supporting current GOP policies they are still evil.
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They're still trash. Exhibit A: Marsha Blackburn, most delusional member of the US Senate.
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They got upstaged in 2018.
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Then they'll lose, too.
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So a handful.
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So, like, 2?
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I don’t know what the repub party has to offer to women, except cover.
No, those women are offering cover to the Republican Party, not the other way around. The GOP offers women nothing.
You are right, I meant to say that.
Religion and spirituality. That's mostly a right wing thing. Women correlate highly with those things and the GOP offers that in spades. While many democrats are okay with it, being anti-religion and pro-secular is a left position that many also hold. It tends to be less of an offering on the left and if you're going to be called out for such positions it's highly likely to be someone on the left. The right will be statistically more apt to rabidly support you - and if you're christian to even go so far as to campaign for theocracy you might desire, the christian equivalent of sharia.
Also, the GOP offers maintaining the status quo and supporting the current hegemony that many people have grown up in. So, for many women who don't want change because the news, radio, other indoctrinated friends told them they don't want change. The GOP also has that. If that sounds unreasonable, yes. If people acted reasonable with their own self interest and understood how hegemony and politics worked, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place and republicans wouldn't even exist at all.
Democrats want - hegemony light. Not the place to be if you don't want rights for workers and are highly warped by libertarian irrationality.
Most don't care about protecting abortion and reproductive rights at all.
It's a combination of fear of change and Stockholm syndrome.