TEAPARTY WOMEN GIVETHE FEMALE GENDER A VERY BAD IMAGE

Most people hear non-profit and don't realize that people are not all volunteers.  Many are highly paid and run non-profit organizations as their primary source of income.  Wikipedia writes:  Christine Therese O'Donnell (born August 27, 1969) is an American Republican Party politician who founded two advocacy organizations and has been an advocate for nonprofit clients and nonprofit causes for nearly 20 years.  She is currently being accused of mismanaging her campaign funds  For more on her, click here and click here. where you will re-read some of the craziest things she has said.  

Michele Bachmann, is another loose cannon.  A hint of her came out in an interview with Chris Mathews in  November 2010.  Click here.  Be sure to watch her on video in this post.   She behaves like a Joe McCarthy replacement in drag.  For whatever strange reason, Boehner has put her on the Intelligence committee.  As ridiculous as she was before her election, she did cite as the first order of business that taxes should not be raised (as part of her acceptance speech in November) loudly proclaiming that is exactly what the Democrats have in mind...raising taxes.

Timothy Dalrymple wrote  "Loser: Republican women, and women in general.:"   " Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman had a lot going for them: sophisticated, intelligent, competent, extraordinary experience as entrepreneurs and executives, with loads of money and strong connections in the business community.  At a time of financial peril, with California and Washington facing budgetary crises the likes of which we have not seen for a generation or two, with a maligned President of the opposing party — they still could not get elected."Angle and O’Donnell also lost, and their weirdness (together with that of Michelle Bachmann), played up ad nauseum in the media, arguably hurt the image of the conservative woman.  All were made out to be shrieking harpies.  2010 was billed as the rise of the conservative woman — and especially the conservative Christian woman.  Yet it was tough.  Angle lost by a surprising margin, O’Donnell lost by an unsurprising but very large margin, and Fiorina and Whitman also lost handily.  The Mama Grizzlies and the Mama CEO’s didn’t fare so well".  To read the entire Dalrymple article which is quite enlightening about feelings expressed and acted on about women, click here.

Clearly there are many men out there who believe most women don't belong in politics.  There is not a singular reason for that.   Some may be threatened, some women don't behave in a predictable 'old boy' manner, and some women prove they can do what men are unable to do in so many ways.