Will any Democrat women here vote for McCain because of Palin?

JOEJOEJOE

Will gender sway any of the ladies here to vote republican?

decides2dream

NEVER.


palin's stance on issues/policies of importance to me are just tooo divergent from my own pov i could never, ever support her. gender means nothing...it's all about issues FOR women, amongst many others....not just being a woman.

obama has a FAR better record of support for women and women's issues, and ideas and ideals that are in line with my own for such.



btw - i am an independent.

whitepants

While I'm impressed that McCain wants Palin as his VP, it's still not enough for me to go to the dark side and vote Republican. However, I am extremely disappointed with how the DNC has behaved the entire primary season and its mis-treatment of Hillary. So they don't have my vote either.

Lots of democratic women will vote republican this November for their own personal reasons, and that's their business.

I OWN MY VOTE!

peacegirl

decides2dream wrote:

NEVER.


palin's stance on issues/policies of importance to me are just tooo divergent from my own pov i could never, ever support her. gender means nothing...it's all about issues FOR women, amongst many others....not just being a woman.

Same here

nfanel

nope. if anything she strengthens my vote for obama.

(edit: i'm an independent, too)

lateralus963

No, I disagree with her on all the major issues! I actually think the only thing McCain is doing by picking Palin is insulting democratic women. He is saying that women do not pay attention to the issue and will vote for any women. ( Personally, I believe that this is not the case with any democratic women, and I know that is not the case for me).Therefore,he is insulting our intelligences and that makes me sick!
I wouldn't vote before I would vote for McCain/ Palin ticket!

anotherclone

NO. Not even with a gun to my head.

(ok, that might be a bit dramatic )

DeLukin

Nevermind (self-censorship)

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decides2dream wrote:

NEVER.


palin's stance on issues/policies of importance to me are just tooo divergent from my own pov i could never, ever support her. gender means nothing...it's all about issues FOR women, amongst many others....not just being a woman.

obama has a FAR better record of support for women and women's issues, and ideas and ideals that are in line with my own for such.



btw - i am an independent.

+1 on all of that.

blackredyellow

I'm sure that there will be some women who identify with her as a sports mom, or whatever, and may go that way because of her.

There are millions of voters, so I'm sure that some would be that shallow... I just can't imagine there being a big enough number to justify McCain basically giving the finger to all of the moderates that he alienated with this pick.

ofthegirl75

Hell no!

brokenarrow

anotherclone wrote:

NO. Not even with a gun to my head.

(ok, that might be a bit dramatic )

lol!!


and my answer is also

NO

anotherclone

blackredyellow wrote:

I'm sure that there will be some women who identify with her as a sports mom, or whatever, and may go that way because of her.

There are millions of voters, so I'm sure that some would be that shallow... I just can't imagine there being a big enough number to justify McCain basically giving the finger to all of the moderates that he alienated with this pick.

you are on to something here. A joker with the McCain campaign just said that the election is not about issues, but the composite view of what people take away from the candidates.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_manager_this_election_i.html

This is so f-ing crazy. It's like I woke up in some sort of alternate dimension today.

decides2dream

anotherclone wrote:

you are on to something here. A joker with the McCain campaign just said that the election is not about issues, but the composite view of what people take away from the candidates.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_manager_this_election_i.html

This is so f-ing crazy. It's like I woke up in some sort of alternate dimension today.

scary, scary.


i DO realize there are voters out there who vote based on looks, political parties, style, if they 'like' someone, etc. i also know there are hilary supporters who feel devalued, etc. however, i just canNOT imagine throwing away my pov on important issues....not even looking at what a candidate thinks and says....and voting solely on gender, age, experience, skin color, etc. it's a ridiculous notion to me.

stuckinline

decides2dream wrote:

NEVER.


palin's stance on issues/policies of importance to me are just tooo divergent from my own pov i could never, ever support her. gender means nothing...it's all about issues FOR women, amongst many others....not just being a woman.

obama has a FAR better record of support for women and women's issues, and ideas and ideals that are in line with my own for such.



btw - i am an independent.

same here

Enkidu

Never in a million years. I could never support anyone with an anti-choice agenda. Male/female/other.

I'm a Democrat.

cincybearcat

Enkidu wrote:

Never in a million years. I could never support anyone with an anti-choice agenda. Male/female/other.

I'm a Democrat.

You know, I use to say the same thing...the completely other side, but the same thing...

Then I realized that no change will ever come with abortion. So, I stopped letting 1 issue that was never going anywhere dominate all the other issues I believe in.

decides2dream

cincybearcat wrote:

You know, I use to say the same thing...the completely other side, but the same thing...

Then I realized that no change will ever come with abortion. So, I stopped letting 1 issue that was never going anywhere dominate all the other issues I believe in.

it certainly is NOT only 'one issue'...with mccain, or palin.
for me, anyway...

kcherub

If McCain did pick a woman hoping to pick up Hillary's supporters, I think he may have made a grave error. That's like saying that I would have chosen the hooker down the street to watch my child because my babysitter was busy. Not making any inferences to Palin being a hooker, so please don't get this thread closed by commenting upon same!

digster

cincybearcat wrote:

Then I realized that no change will ever come with abortion. So, I stopped letting 1 issue that was never going anywhere dominate all the other issues I believe in.

I don't think it's quite that simple to say nothing will ever happen to abortion. McCain himself has set that he would appoint judges to the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade, and it's probable that the next President will have the chance to appoint 2, possibly even 3, new justices to the Court. From my knowledge about the judges, there are four pretty firm "overturn" rulers sitting on the bench already (Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas). If McCain has the opportunity to have one more conservative voice on the Court, Roe V. Wade could certainly be overturned.

weenie

Setting aside the abortion issue, which really polarizes people's opinions, I find it incomprehensible that he even selected her. She's not qualified to be in the #2 spot and anyone who thinks otherwise is just looking at her through rose-colored Republican glasses. If something happened to McCain and she took over running the country, she would be no more than a puppet being told what to do by the Republican rank and file. Which, come to think of it, is how I feel about McCain.

NO