Originally Posted by djplong

I think the problem is that almost all the Republican women WHO TAKE A SHOT AT NATIONAL POLITICS lately are *easy* pickings.

Let's look at the list.

We have the Alaska governor who quit her job partway through to go on her publicity tour. Amazing how she "coincidentally" showed up in NH when Romney announced and withing bicycle distance of the Iowa Straw Poll when that happened.

We have the woman from Minnesota who said God told her to marry her husband and that her husband told her to get into law school. She rallies against government subsidies while profiting from them to say nothing of her laundry list of quotes that are the verbal equivalent of lighning rods.

O'Donnell is yesterday's news. But she gets huffy in an interview with Piers Morgan. He asks her about stuff SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK that she was promoting - and then says HE was out of line with the questions! But, like I said, she's in the history department now.

For whatever reason, the GOP isn't coming up with *credible* women. Now, I don't agree with a lot of the policies but name me one woman on the GOP side who could at least compete for the title of "smartest person in the room" with the likes of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or even those who's campaigns were jokes like Gingrich.

So far, the women of the GOP are more like female versions of Donald Trump.

Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?

Why? Because they don't have something that Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell have. Looks. And, evidently, that's what counts to make the cut if you're a woman.

Heck - look at the GOP PR department - otherwise known as Fox News. Megan Kelly goes on maternity leave (something she called "the first step to socialism" back around 2008) and is replaced by three successive blonde women.

That's what this is - it's a PR and/or beauty contest.

Men aren't excused from it. Pawlenty? Gone. Romney? The leader. Paul? He finished second to Bachmann and NOBODY mentions it. It's like they (the news media on BOTH sides) don't want to admit that he's even IN it! Huckabee? Nope. Christie won't get in.

Right now, although I have many concerns about him, I'm looking at voting in the NH primary for Ron Paul. This wouldn't be the first time I voted for him (that would be the 1998 general election).