Candidate Cheney Would Carry Women's Vote

Usually one of the big advantages for the democrat party is the women's vote. Having been exposed continuously since the 1960s to feminist brainwashing, many women buy into the myth that they should vote for the democrat party.



But one of the most interesting things about a Dick Cheney candidacy is that it would turn this accepted rule of politics on its head. I've talked to a lot of women about Dick Cheney, and he is a candidate who uniquely appeals to them.

What women want is a strong man, who is clear about what he believes in, and who can protect them. It's hard to see who better fits that mould than Cheney. And the fact that he is plainly a good-looking man, full of youthful vigor, doesn't hurt either. And his wife, a respected historian and Iraqi women's rights advocate, would definitely be an asset on the campaign trail as well:

Historian Lynne Cheney said today that, in comparison to where the United States was at a comparable point in its own history, the Iraqis are doing remarkably well.

An estimated 100,000 Americans, just 3 percent of all eligible voters, participated in America's first election under the new U.S. Constitution, she noted. And more than half of the U.S. population -- all women and slaves -- were ineligible to vote. In Iraq, by contrast, women are eligible to vote, there are no slaves, and more than 70 percent of the population voted.

In fact, the Iraqi constitution gives women equal rights and a mandatory 25 percent of all seats in the newly elected parliament, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Tim Russert today on NBC News' Meet the Press. "The Iraqis are now going to engage in a process which gives them a real chance for a broadly representative government," she said.

Iraq, the vice president's wife said, obviously has benefited from U.S. experience and guidance. "We've been able to bring our knowledge to the people of Iraq," she said.

Without the women's vote, it's hard to see how any of the democrat candidates could win in 2008, and it's easy to see how the GOP would be approaching Reagan-style landslide territory.