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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 07:43 PM
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2. Yes - does anyone doubt that?
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  -Is the Only Reason Geraldine Ferraro was on the ticket in '84 because she was a woman? democrat2thecore  Mar-11-08 07:42 PM   #0 
  - Yes. She was the very definition of a tokenism candidate.  NJSecularist   Mar-11-08 07:43 PM   #1 
  - No doubt about it. Obscure member of Congress at the time  democrat2thecore   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #7 
  - Yes - does anyone doubt that?  Pirate Smile   Mar-11-08 07:43 PM   #2 
  - I'd assume she had qualities and intellect conducive to running the country.  Flabbergasted   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #9 
     - Sure, but that wasn't why she was picked and that was perfectly clear at the time.  Pirate Smile   Mar-11-08 08:28 PM   #35 
  - She was a lot more coherent then. The Gibson interviewed on FOX was  Old Crusoe   Mar-11-08 07:43 PM   #3 
  - I remember being very proud of her  Mystery2Me   Mar-11-08 07:44 PM   #4 
  - So essentially, she was the Mondale equivalent of Harriet Miers?  Liberal Veteran   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #13 
     - Yeppers  democrat2thecore   Mar-11-08 07:48 PM   #18 
  - It was a main reason, yes, if not THE main reason.  LisaM   Mar-11-08 07:44 PM   #5 
  - She actually admits that. I heard her say it today. nt  MassDemm   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #6 
  - She said as much in 1984  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 07:48 PM   #19 
     - Then she's a hypocrite  nebula   Mar-12-08 02:58 PM   #47 
  - If you didn't jerk your knee so often, you'll see that she admits she  joeybee12   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #8 
  - No. She was the right woman at the right time.  Bucky   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #10 
  - pretty much  XemaSab   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #11 
  - You know what. I don't even want to go there. I am going to assume that she was qualified...  JVS   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #12 
  - Who cares. She is a bad mouthed old woman in my eyes now.  OhioBlues   Mar-11-08 07:45 PM   #14 
  - yayyyyy!  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 07:49 PM   #23 
     - No not yay, it's disgusting and wrong that people defend what she said!  OhioBlues   Mar-11-08 07:58 PM   #25 
        - What did she say?  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 08:02 PM   #28 
           - Look it up, or jog your memory. This was dispicable  OhioBlues   Mar-11-08 08:09 PM   #30 
              - I suggest YOU look it up  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 08:15 PM   #32 
                 - Spin her statement any way you would like  OhioBlues   Mar-11-08 08:20 PM   #33 
                 - I see you are in full out spin mode  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 08:25 PM   #34 
                    - Ok - we disagree.  OhioBlues   Mar-11-08 08:33 PM   #36 
                       - peace  maddiejoan   Mar-11-08 08:36 PM   #39 
                 - Oh no, not racist at all!!  proud2Blib   Mar-11-08 08:39 PM   #41 
                 - Don't you guys ever get tired of having Hillary fool you into lying  BuyingThyme   Mar-12-08 02:51 PM   #46 
  - Yes.  jmg257   Mar-11-08 07:46 PM   #15 
  - It Wasn't for Her Brains!  mckara   Mar-11-08 07:46 PM   #16 
  - nice mixing of metaphors  dwickham   Mar-11-08 07:49 PM   #21 
  - Geraldine was black.  BuyingThyme   Mar-11-08 07:47 PM   #17 
  - LOL!!  proud2Blib   Mar-11-08 08:41 PM   #42 
  - LOL!!  proud2Blib   Mar-11-08 08:42 PM   #43 
  - Yes, her background was rather unremarkable  Fighting Irish   Mar-11-08 07:48 PM   #20 
  - Yep I think that was it! I remember even feeling really bad for her  napi21   Mar-11-08 07:49 PM   #22 
  - she was a woman ?  edwardlindy   Mar-11-08 07:52 PM   #24 
  - Her ridiculous rants about Obama are spoken like a token  havocmom   Mar-11-08 07:58 PM   #26 
  - Yeah, pretty much, as exciting as it was at the time. nt  JerseygirlCT   Mar-11-08 07:59 PM   #27 
  - Yes, although of course our country would have been a lot better off...  totodeinhere   Mar-11-08 08:06 PM   #29 
  - No doubt about THAT! I loved Fritz, but he wasn't a good candidate -nt  democrat2thecore   Mar-11-08 08:11 PM   #31 
  - her being a woman increased the viability of her candidacy nt  dusmcj   Mar-11-08 08:34 PM   #37 
  - That's how I remember it  proud2Blib   Mar-11-08 08:35 PM   #38 
  - She said herself that she was only on the ticket because she was a woman..  Johnny__Motown   Mar-11-08 08:37 PM   #40 
  - "Nobody can possibly argue against this point"  proud2Blib   Mar-11-08 08:45 PM   #44 
  - Yes. n/t  housewolf   Mar-11-08 08:55 PM   #45 
 

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