Madeleine Albright: 'I Can't Understand Why Any Woman Would Want To Vote For Mitt Romney'

[Tx4obama]

Madeleine Albright: 'I Can't Understand Why Any Woman Would Want To Vote For Mitt Romney'

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- There's been no shortage of musing over Mitt Romney's failure to win over female voters. The gender gap is pronounced, and with the efforts of the president's political team, growing wider. Romney has been criticized for his failure to speak out in support of equal pay for equal work, he's been tied to some of his party's more hardline positions on abortion, and has been caricatured as a relic of a bygone era in which women put career ambitions aside.

But for all the talk of Romney's trouble among women voters, no Democrat has put it in the terms that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright did in an interview with The Huffington Post on Monday.

"I'm not sure I'm going to state this exactly right," she said, sitting amidst a sea of convention-related activity and daytime wine drinkers in the Westin hotel Lobby in downtown Charlotte. "But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don’t understand -- I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat -- but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney."

Albright then revised her pool of rationally thinking female Romney supporters to include his five daughters-in-law, an obvious but hardly generous expansion. Even with the rhetorical flair, however, Albright's comments reflect a genuine disturbance that many Democrats -- women and men -- feel about the tone of the discussion of women's issues during the course of the campaign.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/03/madeleine-albright-mitt-romney_n_1852789.html

[TroyD]

1. I don't understand it either

But unfortunately millions of women will.

It's the reality of the 2-party system, it seems.

Anyone who doesn't like the Democratic Party ends up voting Republican, even though it's often against their best interests.

[alp227]

2. Those women follow the selfish authoritarian pathology of modern American conservatism.

They're Stepford wives, religious fundamentalists, or overall self-righteous narcissists.

[Odin2005]

3. Religious brainwashing.

And women are on average significantly more religious than men, probably for a mix of biological and cultural reasons