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NNadir

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15. I will continue to support women candidates. The consequences of NOT going with the woman are becoming...

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:03 PM

5 hrs ago

...graphically pronounced.

Maybe we've been smacked so hard we can get it through our pathetic heads.

There was a time, I note, when nobody thought a black candidate would win, and it was a concern I had when a guy named Barack Obama (rhymes with Osama, as in bin Laden) could win.

We had Shirley Chisholm run; we had Jesse Jackson...and maybe others less prominent.

"Rhymes with Osama" was not just a twice elected President, he was a great President, followed by a pathetic fool, but great all the same.

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But we can't have a female President, right? [View all] senseandsensibility 7 hrs ago OP

Rec for "it's a damn shame". Truer words never spoken. Whyisthisstillclose 7 hrs ago #1

I'd like to believe that we could Bettie 7 hrs ago #2

I feel similarly senseandsensibility 7 hrs ago #3

Yes, we can. It's inevitable. But MadameButterfly 4 hrs ago #30

Spanberger just got to the Governor's office Fiendish Thingy 7 hrs ago #4

The same people who are pushing talking points to discourage women from running Quiet Em 6 hrs ago #5

Well, sometimes reality has a way of overtaking "conventional wisdom" senseandsensibility 6 hrs ago #7

No one is running yet. Not even Newsom. maxsolomon 6 hrs ago #6

I wish this rhetoric would stop here TheProle 6 hrs ago #8

Bingo. It's getting harder and harder to tell where this messaging is originating from. PeaceWave 6 hrs ago #10

Not really. Torchlight 3 hrs ago #35

I loved what I heard from the governor BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #9

No, we can't get the red out 6 hrs ago #11

I think we are fooling ourselves if we ignore or refuse to admit senseandsensibility 4 hrs ago #24

Two capable women Aviation Pro 6 hrs ago #12

Careful what to wish for. The Grand Illuminist 6 hrs ago #13

And that has Nothing to do with Cha 5 hrs ago #18

The first female POTUS will be a GOPer leftstreet 6 hrs ago #14

I will continue to support women candidates. The consequences of NOT going with the woman are becoming... NNadir 5 hrs ago #15

To me she didn't project strength. Hieronymus Phact 5 hrs ago #16

I'm with you. And WHY is a male candidate playing it safe? We need to get over the hidden misogyny, dammit. Joinfortmill 5 hrs ago #17

Running as "a woman" is asking to lose gulliver 5 hrs ago #19

she could be the dark horse. nt Javaman 5 hrs ago #20

Just watched she rocked it. ALBliberal 5 hrs ago #21

Governor Spanberger is too moderate for many here. TomSlick 5 hrs ago #22

I'm on the progressive side but I would vote for her senseandsensibility 4 hrs ago #25

I'm unprepared to commit until we know who is running in the primary. TomSlick 4 hrs ago #28

Yeah, the same. senseandsensibility 4 hrs ago #29

Too much time. TomSlick 4 hrs ago #32

In most other places, it's not an issue. But by comparison the U.S. is a backward country. I don't see a woman getting Fil1957 4 hrs ago #23

That's WHY misogynist men don't want WOMEN To LEAD! Bread and Circuses 4 hrs ago #26

This message was self-deleted by its author senseandsensibility 4 hrs ago #27

They left out the "n" at the end of Misogynist Men. maxsolomon 4 hrs ago #33

Okay, thanks. senseandsensibility 3 hrs ago #34

Remember "Killer Kamala" and the ugly chants of... QueerDuck 4 hrs ago #31