Why would a woman ever vote for a republican again?

[Botany]

Shutting down the federal government over a woman's right to get
reproductive health care services should be the nail in the coffin of
ever getting any support from women again for republicans*.

If I had a vagina I would be one very mad girl.


* Except for Fox news watching whack jobs who think Sarah Palin is good
example of family values and faith.

[Justitia]

1. I've asked myself that for all my adult life -eom

[Drale]

2. The same reason people who are not White and rich do

I have no idea what the reason is but there it is.

[missheidi]

3. My mother usually votes Repub, but she's already said

that she never will again. I don't understand any women who thinks that demolishing Planned Parenthood is a good idea.

[supernova]

4. Stockholm Syndrome

Is the only thing I can think of.

They only women who can honestly vote republican these days are women who honestly don't know they are their own free moral agents.

It wasn't always that way. Back in the days of protesting to get the women's right to vote, quite a few suffragist women were Republicans.

[Botany]

5. This is not anything like the old Republican party

Margaret Chase Smith was 1st women senator, a repub, and an all around good egg too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith

[ismnotwasm]

6. Indoctrination I guess

I don't get it either. When I meet other women who consider themselves Republican there usually is a bitter, close minded element to them. Damaged in some way I can't define. The semi-good news is what I've been hearing lately from repuke types of either gender is a distancing. For instead I have a friend who considers himself 'conservative' but not republican. He's not crazy, and understands a woman's right to choose from a practical standpoint at least.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Their preachers tell them that god will reward them in heaven for it

Yes, really.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Self-hating women vote Republican.

[Ohio Joe]

9. If you are not a straight white rich male, why would you vote repug?

They really don't seem to give a shit about anyone else... They don't even make it a secret.

[gratuitous]

10. I had a girlfriend many years ago

Her mother was involved in local politics, and something of a force. When Republicans finally shut down the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982, the mother mailed in her voter registration card to the local Republican committee and told them that 50 years of being a woman outweighed 30 years of being a Republican, and she could no longer belong to a party that didn't see her as a citizen equal to any man.

Republican women, you can see that in the eyes of your fellow Republicans your life is little more than a bargaining chip to secure a temporary political victory. Do you really think so little of yourself and your life that you're willing to put your life in play so that the likes of John Boehner can strut around and crow about an empty victory?

[spooky3]

11. This is the way they think:

"My husband and I PAY our doctor for my and our daughters' health care. Who needs Planned Parenthood? Just a bunch of welfare queens."

"Don't try to confuse me by telling me that PP saves money by preventing unwanted pregnancies, which could otherwise result in more costs in the long run. I don't like math."

"My husband is going to take care of me. So I don't need equal rights on the job. If I do work, I think I am so excellent that everyone will recognize that and treat me well regardless of gender."

"God told me to vote for Republicans. They have Christian values like I do."

"My husband would never divorce me, or die. So I'll be fine. The rest of you need to find good husbands and go into the kitchen like good girls, and all of us would be better off."

[tabasco]

12. Stupid is not confined to males. n/t

[scorpiogirl]

13. I'm so disgusted right now, I can hardly see straight. n/t

[Solomon]

14. You underestimate how many women agree with and enjoy

the lifestyle that says hubby works and brings home the fortune while they raise the kids, take them to soccer games, go shopping, and have tea all day with their other rich friends.

[louslobbs]

15. Republicon Women are just like Stepford Wives, they vote with their programmed brains and the man

owns their Vagina and Uterus to be used and abused as they see fit.
Lou

[Solomon]

18. I've also seen a lot of religious women who believe that

man comes first, and the woman is a "helpmate."

According to the bible, woman are spare ribs.

[louslobbs]

23. how sick is that?

[Initech]

16. I don't get why anyone is voting republican anymore.

It's clear they don't stand for women's rights, for gay rights, for worker's rights, you name it. They are not the party of the people. They are the party of the billionaires.

[Raine]

17. My cousin a who is very liberal on social issues is a repub

she's very pro-choice etc. ... I don't understand it, I guess I never will. :-(

[hayu_lol]

21. If no one understands...google

Phyllis Shafley/eagle forum. She has been rabid right for about 40 years.

[FarLeftFist]

19. REPUBLICANS HATE WOMEN! n/t

[abluelady]

20. For the Same Reasons They Always Did

They don't care about themselves as women an they certainly don't care about women as a group. They see themselves as an appendage to the men in their lives, be it their husbands, dads, sons, etc.

[Bravo Zulu]

22. Too please their oppressors!