Electing a female president is extremely important. (Reply #27)

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Fri Mar 15, 2019, 09:59 PM

BlueWI (1,736 posts)

27. Electing a female president is extremely important.

But it's not the only issue of relevance to this campaign.

All that being said, nothing wrong with voting your conscience. But just as we didn't solve racism by electing Obama, we won't solve sexism by electing Harris or Warren or Kloubuchar. I am a black man myself and I voted for Obama in the primaries, but it took a while for me to warm to him. It's good to have achieved the milestone of a non-white president and it means something to me, but I wasn't going to put race above nation in my choice of candidates.

Maybe in 2020 we will have the first female president, but I hope we look at the merits of all qualified candidates as we prepare for the primaries.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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NYT ltte: Run a governor, not a Senator, for president in 2020 [View all]	CTyankee	Mar 2019	OP
I'm so glad we ran Gov. Obama	lapfog_1	Mar 2019	#1
good point!	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#2
And Gov. Bush made a great president	dalton99a	Mar 2019	#4
He may have gotten elected due to his past governorship of Texas but he effed up royally	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#6
It's not an absolute, but since Carter, governors have done better than Senators.	marylandblue	Mar 2019	#5
Who knows? I'm sure the author of this piece would say the the Republicans would then stand a	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#8
sample size is too small	lapfog_1	Mar 2019	#12
Good point, but nonetheless, there is a theme since Carter	marylandblue	Mar 2019	#15
Reagan pushed the "Federal Government Bad" meme	lapfog_1	Mar 2019	#18
For their second term, incumbent advantage usually takes over, plus	marylandblue	Mar 2019	#20
The key phrase is "long time."	Garrett78	Mar 2019	#21
(on paper) they ran a young dynamic governor for VP in 2008	crazycatlady	Mar 2019	#36
LOL. Best governor Illinois ever had	still_one	Mar 2019	#10
Governor Lincoln would beg to differ! - n/t	lapfog_1	Mar 2019	#13
This could go on for a while I think. So much for the NY Times editorial	still_one	Mar 2019	#23
lol.. I forget.. was Obama Gov of Illinois	Cha	Mar 2019	#28
We have a great governor running, Jay Inslee could take out Trump easy.	Autumn	Mar 2019	#3
I think it is worth it to take another look at Inslee, which I will do.	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#7
Plenty of room on the bandwagon.	BlueWI	Mar 2019	#11
While I'm disappointed that ONCE AGAIN we have to say to women "Sorry, not your turn yet...	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#24
Electing a female president is extremely important.	BlueWI	Mar 2019	#27
I think we have to be clear: just because I want to vote for a woman for president doesn't	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#30
All but a few agree with that. I am hoping Gov. Inslee	Hortensis	Mar 2019	#33
We need to stop with any kind of conventional wisdom...	doompatrol39	Mar 2019	#9
I think we can look at history, but we have to look at the right history.	marylandblue	Mar 2019	#17
i, for one, could not fathom why Trump won. I went to bed on that election night thinking HRC	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#25
What's your plan, then?	Squinch	Mar 2019	#31
I'm not saying I have one...	doompatrol39	Mar 2019	#34
So discard experience because things change and experience might not always give us the answer.	Squinch	Mar 2019	#35
What are you talking about?	doompatrol39	Mar 2019	#39
Inslee, Hickenlooper, Bullock	brooklynite	Mar 2019	#14
Look at recent history	Freddie	Mar 2019	#16
Inslee's a great candidate.	BlueStater	Mar 2019	#19
Decline in governorship numbers really damaged our bench	Awsi Dooger	Mar 2019	#22
Maybe this LTTE will be discussed further in the NYT over the weekend and, hopefully, here	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#26
I like all of our incumbent senatorial candidates	Rhiannon12866	Mar 2019	#29
Would love to see a political analysis about why this is true, but it is true.	McCamy Taylor	Mar 2019	#32
You could also run a Vice President and be done with it. nt	UniteFightBack	Mar 2019	#37
I'm suprised no one has mentioned President Dukakis.	CrossingTheRubicon	Mar 2019	#38
Excellent point!	CTyankee	Mar 2019	#40

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