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The first female president will be a Republican

  
Via:  GregTx  •  2 weeks ago  •  49 comments

By:   Kimberly Ross

The first female president will be a Republican
Immutable characteristics don't make someone more deserving of the office of the president. This is a lesson Democrats, fresh off a massive failure, still can't grasp.

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Both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump in earth-shattering fashion. During their respective runs, Clinton and Harris were viewed as inevitable and deserving. Each was conferred the special ability to make history by becoming the first female president, ending the United States's patriarchal domination once and for all. At least, this is the narrative they sold.

Each campaign should have been about the best Democrat for the job, who just happened to be a woman. Instead, the campaigns were so focused on breaking a glass ceiling that all things became secondary to the biology of their candidates.

There will be no lessons learned from Harris's decisive loss to Trump. Democrats will wonder how they could lose, all the while ignoring the very serious problems with the Harris-Walz campaign and its messaging. The lack of self-awareness is bound to continue as the party tries to pick up the pieces following a resounding defeat.

After two attempts and no win, this much is clear: the first female president will be a Republican, not a Democrat.

Harris made everything about "joy" and vibes for most of her short campaign. However, the impression of ease and happiness was largely overshadowed by the utterly condescending attitude with which she and her surrogates operated.

Abortion was the main driver of conversations and messaging. A September Harris campaign ad featuring Hadley Duvall, a survivor of incest, included the words, "Donald Trump did this. He took away our freedom." Another abortion ad from the campaign featured the family of Amber Nicole Thurman, who died after complications from a medication abortion, with her mother saying, "My daughter is gone because of what Donald Trump did."

The Harris-Walz campaign was obsessed with the abortion matter. It gleefully spread the idea that abortion bans kill women, and women in the U.S. have lost their freedoms and would continue to lose them if Trump was victorious. It engaged in calculated, emotional falsehoods centered on women, and Harris-Walz supporters, who were more interested in winning than the truth, fully believed them.

In addition to the pro-abortion push was the sexist effort to deem Republican men as emotional or physical abusers of their wives. An ad even came out telling women, "What happens in the booth stays in the booth," as if we're incapable of making our own voting decisions and telling our husbands about them.

The Harris-Walz team was deeply invested in a patronizing campaign aimed at women and men, filled with scare tactics, outright lying, shaming, and the idea that making history was more important than a candidate's substance or policy stances. Since this is its track record when it comes to female presidential candidates, it's hard to imagine the Democratic Party crossing that finish line first. If you can't convince voters twice that a patriarchy-fighting "girl boss" will save the nation, you probably never will. What makes much more sense is a future that includes a Republican woman as the first to serve as commander in chief.

Time will tell who becomes the first female presidential candidate for the Republican Party, but it's safe to say she won't focus on sex and gender above all else. There's no reason to exclude the achievement of making history, but that should never be a main motivation for any candidate. It's a tiresome, superficial strategy that clearly does not work. Beyond that, the nation deserves so much more than a leader who includes among her top goals the desire to soothe progressive sensibilities.

In a now-deleted X post, gun control activist Shannon Watts said, "Kamala Harris was not a flawed candidate. America is a flawed country."

Watts and many other leftists believe Harris was robbed of the presidency because she's a woman. They also seem to think her trailblazing desires somehow nullified any defects in her performance as a candidate. Ironically, if Democrats had made the campaign less about "girl power" and cared more about skills, abilities, and accomplishments, Harris may have fared better Tuesday.

Immutable characteristics don't make someone more deserving of the office of the president. This is a lesson Democrats, fresh off a massive failure, still can't grasp. This collective inability to focus on what truly matters is what led to both an Electoral College and popular vote win for their most hated opponent.


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GregTx
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1  seeder  GregTx    2 weeks ago
Each campaign should have been about the best Democrat for the job, who just happened to be a woman. Instead, the campaigns were so focused on breaking a glass ceiling that all things became secondary to the biology of their candidates.
 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  GregTx @1    2 weeks ago

She was a diversity hire from the very beginning, chosen for her ethnicity and gender. It went downhill from there. KJP is another prime example of identity politics, having checked all the boxes and has turned out to be the worst press secretary of all. Democrats seem to be very slow learners.

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.1  bugsy  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    2 weeks ago

And many of them are still out there insulting and name calling those that voted for Trump. They need to realize many of those were democrats and they need those people for votes. They will never get them back if they keep up this bullshit tactic of trying to shame someone for who they voted for. 

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.1.2  Tacos!  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    2 weeks ago
She was a diversity hire from the very beginning, chosen for her ethnicity and gender.

Why can’t you let this shit go? It sounds racist and/or sexist every time someone says it. She has had a long career as a public servant in positions she earned - far more than anything Trump had done before being elected. The only time she was picked for a job, as opposed to competing for it was VP, but virtually every VP has been selected to appeal to some demographic - probably most commonly just because they are from a certain state that could bring in more votes for the presidential candidate. J D Vance is a perfect example. So stop with nonsense that there is something unusual about Harris in that regard.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1.3  Greg Jones  replied to  Tacos! @1.1.2    2 weeks ago

Biden said she was specifically chosen because of race and gender. Look it up.

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.1.4  Tacos!  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.3    2 weeks ago

No he didn’t. You look it up.

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
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1.1.5  Thrawn 31  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.3    2 weeks ago

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Tessylo
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1.1.6  Tessylo  replied to  Tacos! @1.1.2    2 weeks ago

I guess it's an improvement from 'she slept her way to the top'

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Tessylo
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1.2  Tessylo  replied to  GregTx @1    2 weeks ago

Liz Cheney for first woman republican president.

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.2.1  seeder  GregTx  replied to  Tessylo @1.2    2 weeks ago

I don't think that's going to gain much traction...

 
 
 
Robert in Ohio
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1.2.2  Robert in Ohio  replied to  Tessylo @1.2    2 weeks ago

Tessylo

I think you are onto something, I think Liz Cheney could be a uniter and a good leader

 
 
 
Sparty On
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1.2.3  Sparty On  replied to  Tessylo @1.2    2 weeks ago

lol ….. hilarious!

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.2.4  Tacos!  replied to  GregTx @1.2.1    2 weeks ago

Why not? Because she didn’t lick Trump’s boot like everyone else in the party? Her ostracization is a shining example of how cultish the party has become around Trump.

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.2.5  MrFrost  replied to  Tacos! @1.2.4    2 weeks ago
Her ostracization is a shining example of how cultish the party has become around Trump.

Bingo.

 
 
 
Ronin2
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1.2.6  Ronin2  replied to  Tacos! @1.2.4    2 weeks ago

No, because she betrayed the nation, her party, and lost all integrity by being Pelosi's hand picked puppet on the Jan 6th committee. She was rightfully kicked out of the Republican party for ignoring and hiding all evidence in her vendetta against Trump.

She has openly campaigned for the most leftist Democrat running for president of all time. Something no real conservative would ever do.

She is her father's daughter and cares more about power than anything else.

She is just pissed because she was left behind in the power struggle for the Republican party.

If she wants to run she can run as a Democrat. She will also lose as a Democrat as well.

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.2.7  Tacos!  replied to  Ronin2 @1.2.6    2 weeks ago

What a load. So much BS in there.

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.2.8  seeder  GregTx  replied to  Tacos! @1.2.4    2 weeks ago
Why not? Because she didn’t lick Trump’s boot like everyone else in the party?

No, because she wouldn't have a chance running as a Republican. 

Her ostracization is a shining example of how cultish the party has become around Trump.

I'm curious if you hold a similar opinion to this on the way Sinema and Manchen were ostracized by the Democrats?

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2.9  Tessylo  replied to  GregTx @1.2.8    2 weeks ago

We never ostracized Liz nor put Dick on a pedestal

 
 
 
Gsquared
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1.2.10  Gsquared  replied to  GregTx @1.2.8    2 weeks ago

Sinema and Manchin were not ostracized by the Democrats.  They both opted to become independents, but they were welcome to remain as viable members of the Democratic Party.

Liz Cheney chose to remain a Republican and tried to prevent her party from becoming an authoritarian freak show.  Obviously, she was unsuccessful in that effort, and she was denounced and shunned by her fellow Republicans.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.2.11  Sean Treacy  replied to  Gsquared @1.2.10    2 weeks ago
a and Manchin were not ostracized by the Democrats. 

Lol. Sinema was sanctioned by her state party for saving the filibuster. Manchin was so harassed by Democrats he had hire personal protection. 

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.2.12  seeder  GregTx  replied to  Tessylo @1.2.9    2 weeks ago

I'm sure.

 
 
 
Tacos!
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1.2.14  Tacos!  replied to  GregTx @1.2.8    2 weeks ago
I'm curious if you hold a similar opinion to this on the way Sinema and Manchen were ostracized by the Democrats?

You can make your own argument if you think they are similar. I am not here to make your arguments for you.

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.2.15  seeder  GregTx  replied to  Tacos! @1.2.14    2 weeks ago

I didn't ask you to, merely asked for your opinion. Thanks for commenting....

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2.16  Tessylo  replied to  GregTx @1.2.12    2 weeks ago

Glad you agree.  Since it's true.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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1.2.17  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Ronin2 @1.2.6    2 weeks ago

Can anyone honestly tell me if she had been a liberal Democrat that decided to hang with the Republicans that she would not have been ostracized and condemned by the left. You could bet a dollar to a donut on it! One parties RINO is no different from the oppositions DINO.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2.18  Tessylo  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @1.2.17    2 weeks ago

No.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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1.2.19  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Tessylo @1.2.18    2 weeks ago

"No."

To which part?

 
 
 
Drakkonis
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1.3  Drakkonis  replied to  GregTx @1    2 weeks ago
Each campaign should have been about the best Democrat for the job, who just happened to be a woman. Instead, the campaigns were so focused on breaking a glass ceiling that all things became secondary to the biology of their candidates.

As far as getting elected, I agree with this yet, at the same time, think it misrepresents a democratic presidency. To me, it suggests that if the Democrats put forth a candidate that was actually qualified and had a plan, then that Dem, if elected, would actually be a president in the sense most understand the term. That is, someone who leads his party and the nation. I don't believe that is the case. 

Greg, in 1.1 touches on this when he says...

She was a diversity hire from the very beginning, chosen for her ethnicity and gender.

Add to that the fact that she was simply installed as the Democratic candidate, rather than voted into the position by the Democratic establishment. By "establishment" I mean those who actually control the Democratic party. 

Then, consider Biden. The whole Dem/media machine backed him until he did something so obviously disqualifying (the debate in June) that not even they could figure out a way to sell him any further. In fact, I believe that the only reason the debate even happened was because they knew before hand that Biden was simply unsupportable any longer and intentionally threw him under the bus with the debate in order to get a new candidate. There is simply no way his handlers could have thought he would do well in this debate, no matter how much time they gave him to prepare. 

Taken all together, it suggests to me that the Democratic machine is faced with a problem. If they put forth a strong, qualified candidate, they risk having someone who will not take orders and go their own way. Since the Dems are becoming increasingly socialist, they can't have that. If they put forth people like Biden, who only got elected because he wasn't Trump, or Harris, who fit the diversity meme, they have someone who is just a sock puppet for those who control the party but isn't likely to be that impressive or has tons of baggage. 

So, getting back to the above quote, even if they put forth a candidate that isn't a diversity hire or other equivalent, we're still going to get the same result. A president that is controlled by some committee rather than a leader. There's probably a good chance Republican presidents are the same way, with the exception of Trump. Trump is an outsider, the appeal of which to many Americans, can't be overstated. Love him or hate him, he certainly is his own man. 

 
 
 
MrFrost
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1.3.1  MrFrost  replied to  Drakkonis @1.3    2 weeks ago
Trump is an outsider,

In what way?

 
 
 
Drakkonis
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1.3.2  Drakkonis  replied to  MrFrost @1.3.1    2 weeks ago
Trump is an outsider,
In what way?

He is not an establishment Republican. He did not have a republican political career, pedigree or patronage prior to his 2015 bid for President. 

 
 
 
Sparty On
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2  Sparty On    2 weeks ago

Condi ……

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago

34361

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3.1  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @3    2 weeks ago

Now that is Donald Trump's type. 

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.2  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @3    2 weeks ago

I can't vote that up.

Why would you put up a picture of garbage?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3.2.1  JohnRussell  replied to  Tessylo @3.2    2 weeks ago

Most likely 1st Republican female president. 

 
 
 
GregTx
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3.2.2  seeder  GregTx  replied to  JohnRussell @3.2.1    2 weeks ago

Do you really think so? 

 
 
 
bugsy
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3.2.3  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @3.2.1    2 weeks ago
Most likely 1st Republican female president. 

Maybe but she will have to wait until Vance finishes his two terms.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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3.2.4  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @3.2.1    2 weeks ago

That is only a possibility in the triggered mind.    No chance in she’ll be anything more that a local rep.

No chance.

None

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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3.2.5  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Tessylo @3.2    2 weeks ago

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arkpdx
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3.2.6  arkpdx  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @3.2.5    2 weeks ago

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bugsy
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3.3  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @3    2 weeks ago

I would much rather that in my party than this....

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arkpdx
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3.3.2  arkpdx  replied to  bugsy @3.3    2 weeks ago

I am surprised the Dems didn't. He checks off all their criteria. 

 
 
 
Gazoo
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3.3.3  Gazoo  replied to  arkpdx @3.3.2    2 weeks ago

It checks every box but race.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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3.3.4  Sparty On  replied to  bugsy @3.3    2 weeks ago

Great googlie mooglies 

 
 
 
MrFrost
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3.3.5  MrFrost  replied to  Gazoo @3.3.3    2 weeks ago

It checks every box but race.

Why is race important to you? 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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3.3.6  Greg Jones  replied to  MrFrost @3.3.5    2 weeks ago

It's not, but it's all the leftist fascists think about 

 
 
 
Gazoo
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3.3.7  Gazoo  replied to  MrFrost @3.3.5    2 weeks ago

It’s not, but race and gender sure as shit is important to the left. Harris lost because of racism and misogyny, that’ all you hear on liberal opinion shows and internet forums.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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5  Sean Treacy    2 weeks ago

Most likely.  A Republicans support will be authentic and not driven by biology. 

 
 

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