Reply #89: Republicans have two idiotic stereotypes about women voters:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Women will always vote for a woman over a man. To take extreme hypothetical examples, this is definitely not trueThe if the woman is Phyllis Schlafly and the man is Alan Alda.

2. Women will automatically vote for a handsome man. I first heard this stereotype when the Republicanites nominated Dan Quayle for Bushdaddy's VP. Some of the advisers actually came right out and said that they were nominating Quayle because he "looked like Robert Redford" and would appeal to women voters. Well, sorry, but Dan Quayle a) Never looked like Robert Redford, b) looked and was rather dimwitted, and c) reminded me of the drunken fratboys who used to run around at parties trying to grope every woman in sight.

The next time I heard that stereotype was when John Kitzhaber beat Denny Smith (a Congressman so stupid that even many Republicans noticed) for governor of Oregon. Republicans complained all over the place that Kitzhaber had gotten in only because all the women voted for his (admittedly) good lucks. No, sorry, it was because Denny Smith couldn't answer a question without sounding like the student who hasn't done his homework and is trying to bullshit his way out.