GOP Women for Hillary?

Buzz about Hillary's pollster suggesting 24% of GOP women would vote for Hillary, a number which seems totally unbelievable to me and my right wing conspiratorial women friends. WaPo:

If 24 percent of Republican women were to vote for Clinton in Nov. 2008, she would significantly outperform any Democratic candidate since 1972 among this group of voters. In exit polls 1972-2004, an average of 9 percent of GOP women voted for Democratic candidates. (Average is 8 percent among Republican men.) High was in 1996, when 15 percent of Republican women voted to re-elect Bill Clinton; the low was last time, when 7 percent supported Kerry.

(Oh, and Penn puts the "don't knows" in Hillary's column. But Obama presumably sees an opportunity. Sorry Barack, GOP women are not among your clueless constituency. OK, there are always a few.) The WaPo goes on to look at more numbers, one indicator her more favorable numbers among women in New York. Now there's a place whose results are typical of the rest of the country! Yup, extrapolate that!

Oh yeah, she thinks we should vote for her just because she's a woman, which is one of the most demeaning things anyone could say about women. (But what do you expect from Democrats, and of Democrats.) Charlotte Hays, IWF:

He's right about one thing: There are those for whom Ms. Clinton's gender is the all-important, all-inspiring reason to vote for her-these people believe that gender politics are important. They are the ones who bring their daughters to rallies and who wonder if we troglodytes are "ready" for a woman president. When Penn said, at the same breakfast, that there is "an emotional element here of having the first women president," he was referring to those voters. There are lots of them, but most of them are Democrats.

Like most conservatives, I couldn't care less about the candidate's gender. I admire Lady Thatcher-but not because she's a woman.

Most GOP women are issue-oriented, they actually think about the issues. And do things to help. Kyle-Anne Shiver, The American Thinker:

Most of the women I know have spent a great portion of their lives -- in addition to raising fine American citizens -- doing volunteer work in our communities trying to put band aids on the myriad of social problems that have become epidemic in the wake of Democrat social policies. Unwed motherhood. Broken families. Absent mothers and fathers. Broken government schools. Sex education that teaches nothing but how to do a great imitation of an alley cat in heat.

Nor do we think kindly of her for capitalizing on her husband's coattails her entire career. GOP Women for Hillary as an electoral force? I think not.

And Democrats might think twice about a President Hillary. The Clintons nearly destroyed the Democrat party. Even during Bill's heyday, his coattails didn't sweep Democrats into office.

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