Will the U.S. Ever Be Ready for a Female President?

Thursday, December 26, 2024

After Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat, a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates rages on.

Posted by retort at 01:44 PM | 37 COMMENTS | permalink

President Biden will sign a proclamation today establishing a national monument in Maine honoring former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary and a leading architect of the New Deal.

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-- Axios (@axios.com) December 16, 2024 at 9:28 AM

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I think the only way we'll see female President in my lifetime is if it's a Republican. But even then I doubt it, because I don't think a female can emerge victorious from the Republican Primary process.

#1 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-12-26 01:58 PM

We're going to have to come up with one that has some bass in her voice and trolls like a WWF heel character.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-12-26 02:13 PM

The Electoral College combined with the cultists of the Religious Right will make it difficult

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-12-26 02:20 PM

Not to worry.

After Trump and congressional Republicans changes a few laws, women won't be allowed outside of the house. Ever again.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 02:33 PM

Not as long as American society tries to value a woman with a value system created by a few very powerful men.

It doesn't matter if it is a woman or a minority-- America still is stuck in place with a value system that was created by a white male patriarchy. As a result, Americans are conditioned to value women or minority candidates only for their ability to successfully play what is still a rich white man's game.

#5 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-26 02:46 PM

#6 .....and an end to the disastrous Bidenomics.

Care to splain that .... just had the best Christmas ever here.

Don't be stupid, stupid.

#7 | Posted by South_American at 2024-12-26 07:45 PM

After Trump and congressional Republicans changes a few laws, women won't be allowed outside of the house. Ever again.
#4 | Posted by ClownShack

And this affects you how?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-26 07:54 PM

ClownShack is a flaming homosexual.

I am pretty hot, aren't I.

Thanks.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 08:03 PM

From his POV, it would be like Christmas married Halloween and Pride Month for the whole year.

I don't understand this analogy.

Perhaps try something people other than you would understand.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 08:05 PM

this affects you how?
#8 | POSTED BY 1LUMPYDUMPER

Injustice affects everyone.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 08:06 PM

When you write your posts.

Are you trying to communicate or insult?

So far you've failed at both.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 08:19 PM

After Trump and congressional Republicans changes a few laws, women won't be allowed outside of the house. Ever again.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-26 02:33 PM | Reply | Flag

And that changes exactly nothing for your mom.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-26 08:55 PM

And that changes exactly nothing for your mom.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-26 08:55 PM | Reply

Just when I thought you had achieved peak stupidity.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-26 09:17 PM

Just when I thought you had achieved peak stupidity.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-26 09:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

And here I was thinking you'd shoplift that second brain cell.

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-26 09:55 PM

I'd like to see either party test the theory on presidential height, and in a head-to-head matchup, have a woman running for president emerge as the taller candidate on stage.

The voter trend toward taller candidates is mixed in the 21st century (GWB was slightly shorter than both his opponents), but was nearly consistently leaning toward the taller candidate from 1900-2000.

#19 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-12-26 10:55 PM

" the disastrous Bidenomics."

The inflation under Biden was due, in part, to his $1400 stimulus which most economists admitted wasn't needed. Steve Rattner sounded the alarm early on, pointing out the third stimulus meant more money was infused into the economy than Covid had drained. Rattner predicted inflation.

Meanwhile, Trump had promised a 42% higher stimulus.

Is there anyone here who doesn't believe inflation would've been WORSE under Trump?

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-27 12:09 AM

when someone writes nonsensical posts about you rather than the content of the article. Must seems like a mirror is punching you in the face.
#15 | POSTED BY MAGAUNITED

Mostly reads like you're desperate for my attention.

Must have been a slow day at the trailer park.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-27 12:59 AM

that changes exactly nothing for your mom.
#16 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Speaking of nonsensical posts, lfthndturds shows up to present his latest.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-27 01:04 AM

POSTED BY MAGAUNITED

This moron consumes rightwing propaganda all day long and comes regurgitating it here hoping someone takes him seriously.

What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-27 01:07 AM

And here I was thinking you'd shoplift that second brain cell.

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-26 09:55 PM | Reply

You once had a thought but it died of loneliness.

#25 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-27 01:20 AM

Trump FTW!
Take that womens!

#26 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-12-27 02:53 AM

America still is stuck in place with a value system that was created by a white male patriarchy.

When I looked at #5, I really thought about it.

When you liberals say outlandish things like that, you are really talking about accomplishment. You are talking about competition. You are talking about being the best.

You are talking about DEI and giving someone something they didnt earn.

And I think Americans are starting to see that and pushing away from it.

#27 | Posted by boaz at 2024-12-27 06:29 AM

The first female American President will most likely be a Republican ---------- in the mold of Thatcher, a person who loved power, that legal authority to grind the opposition into the dirt and laugh at their corpses. My guess, there are several in today's Trump camp who would love the job...
Would we ever degenerate so far as a nation to allow Kari Lake to take the job?

#28 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-12-27 06:41 AM

sure....if either party ran someone better than the bottom of the barrel of bubbling manure like hillary / kamala...

#29 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-27 07:14 AM

"that, you are really talking about accomplishment. You are talking about competition. You are talking about being the best."

If the rule America followed brought it to Trump, then of what use was the rule?

#30 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-27 09:50 AM

If the rule America followed brought it to Trump, then of what use was the rule?

#30 | Posted by NerfHerder

Amen.

Donald proves that America is ready for a president sculpted out of cow manure.

If MAGA had one, they would swear up-and-down that it could talk.

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-27 09:55 AM

MAGA thinks it is privy to some sort of ageless, universal code of conduct which renders its actions and words superior to all others. It is a cult-like belief, as there is an underlying pathological aspect to it. That aspect is that the code demands that it can never, EVER be wrong about anything and as a result it is forced as a collective entity to affirm the veracity of even the most illogical and ridiculous ideas, theories , statements, and/or actions emanating from its philosophical and political leadership.

#32 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-27 10:05 AM

W was actually the first Woman President.

Which is why his former supporters are as scarce as hen's teeth now.

The only woman Trumpers respect these days Ms Lindsey.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-27 10:31 AM

And I think Americans are starting to see that and pushing away from it.
#27 | POSTED BY BOAZ

No worries. We are just in the eye of the storm. After the 20th and Trumpy takes the Oath (assuming he is man enough or doesn't screw it up) things will get real. Real crazy. And CNN and MSNBC and all the others will have plenty of red meat for us.

And I'd listen to Rachel Maddow over any of the hateful lying goofs on Fixed News any day of the week.

Unfortunately there is only one Rachel Maddow. And she is only on once a week. Fortunately there are her podcasts. Which is another reason ratings are dropping. Alternative news sources abound.

#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-27 12:06 PM

Sarah Palin
Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris

It's not the chromosomes. It's the awful candidates. I get that Palin was a VP pick but she was just a heartbeat away ... .

#35 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-27 03:34 PM

Telling that you would lump a know nothing sub par idiot in with Hillary Clinton.

She's actually an accomplished competent person, but you just proved all you see is their gender.

#36 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-27 03:40 PM

As long as they keep blaming the country for not voting for them based on their ------, no. Get the frak over it. Of course there will be female U.S. President one day, but it will have to be someone who doesn't fall into the entitlement trap nor has "making history" one of the top reasons to vote for them.

#37 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-12-27 04:32 PM

keep blaming the country

George Carlin was right, it's not the politicians that suck, it's the public. We're idiots.

#38 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-12-27 04:43 PM

George Carlin was right, it's not the politicians that suck, it's the public. We're idiots.

#38 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Growing up I had always assumed because of my experiences with the public that there was a solid 10% of us that were just idiots.

But now it appears to be about half of us.

There are enough crabs in the bucket now so that hardly any of us can escape.

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-27 05:13 PM

" George Carlin was right, it's not the politicians that suck, it's the public."

You know how dumb the average person is? Well 50% of the population is dumber than him!
~GC

#40 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-27 05:17 PM

" She's actually an accomplished competent person, but you just proved all you see is their gender.

#36 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2024-12-27 03:40 PM | FLAG: |"

Clinton is a corrupt, nasty and thoroughly unlikable woman. She mostly rode the coat tails of her husband and her record of actual accomplishment is nothing special.

Deal with it.

All 3 were bad choices for different reasons and none of those reasons had anything to do with their anatomy.

#41 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-27 11:28 PM

@#41 ... Clinton is a corrupt, nasty and thoroughly unlikable woman. ...

Corrupt?

How so?

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-27 11:53 PM

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