2016 is the year of the woman. A woman will be President 45. Who will the GOP candidate be?

[CK_John]

I have no idea, but she will be pro choice, pro same gender marriage, have immigrant parents with questionable papers, Stanford grad, media savvy and rich.

We'll have a good runoff between Hillary and Gillibrand, with Gillibrand being the candidate.

[Initech]

1. Palin / Bachmann - Derp / Erhmagerd 2012

[LittleBlue]

2. Yessssssssssss

[RobertEarl]

3. Doubt that

The people, having really moved a good bit, will be conservative in their next choice. = another white male. A woman VP, is possible.

Women just don't have it together enough yet to get solid behind just one. But when that day comes, watch out. They'll be wearing the pants in this country.

[HiPointDem]

4. to state 4 years out that 2016 will be 'the year of the woman' suggests that someone's

planning who to install as if it were a public relations campaign.

i don't give a damn if it's a woman or man in office so long as they break with neoliberal policies.

a woman enacting those policies is no advance over a man doing the same.

and female bodies in office is not a substitute for economic stability and civil liberties.

[CK_John]

5. My point was that we should not under-estimate the ability the GOP to

find a candidate that shape shifts into what the polls say is needed.

They are already working on 2016, we have not even warmed up for 2014 most important midterm elections.

I think 2016 will give us a GOP installed in the House, Senate and President 45 if the DNC doesn't wakeup.

[randome]

6. Why would anyone want to speculate about the GOP's candidate in 2016?

Apparently some have already decided for the Democrats but Hillary is not a shoo-in, from my standpoint.

All this baseless speculation is wasted time.

[Phentex]

7. On DU, it started one day after Obama's re-election...

and it hasn't stopped.

[el_bryanto]

8. Given the gender roles assigned by Conservative Americans can there be a serious Republican

female candidate right now? The last serious person they had was Libby Dole, and that was a while ago. Any Woman running for President has to beat off 200 years of cultural stereotypes - the candidates we look for a in a President are, historically, seen as negatives for a woman.

A man is forthright; a woman is shrill.
A man is bold; a woman is out of control.
A man is tough; a woman is butch.

So any woman has some struggles; things are certainly better than they were 20 years ago, and much better than they were 50 years ago, but there's still some struggles. Now layer onto those struggles the Gender Roles that the Conservative party has - in a way it makes you feel sorry for Palin and Bachman - trying to be the meek submissive women they are supposed to be while at the same time projecting that they are serious players on the political arena.

Then again maybe that's why they are, well, crazy - once you accept that you can be a "traditional" woman and a serious politician, you can accept anything.

Bryant