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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmbarrassing! Guess Which Women Republicans Want To Put On The 10-Dollar Bill?
During last Wednesday nights CNN Republican Presidential Debate, moderator Jake Tapper gave the ultimate softball question:
What woman would you put on the 10-dollar bill?
What woman would you put on the 10-dollar bill?
<snip>
1. Ben Carson & Mike Huckabee & Donald Trump nominated family members.
Look, theres no doubt these men love the women they proposed: Ben Carson, his mother, Mike Huckabee, his wife, and Donald Trump, his daughter. And those three women are probably lovely; Ben Carsons mother sounds particularly fearsome (single teenage mother who managed to raise a future neurosurgeon thats impressive).
But lets state the obvious, shall we? George Washington is not on the dollar for his family connections. Abraham Lincoln graces our pennies and fives because he ended slavery, not because his child thought he was a strong father.
Look, theres no doubt these men love the women they proposed: Ben Carson, his mother, Mike Huckabee, his wife, and Donald Trump, his daughter. And those three women are probably lovely; Ben Carsons mother sounds particularly fearsome (single teenage mother who managed to raise a future neurosurgeon thats impressive).
But lets state the obvious, shall we? George Washington is not on the dollar for his family connections. Abraham Lincoln graces our pennies and fives because he ended slavery, not because his child thought he was a strong father.
http://www.ravishly.com/2015/09/22/embarrassing-guess-which-women-republicans-want-put-10-dollar-bill
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Embarrassing! Guess Which Women Republicans Want To Put On The 10-Dollar Bill? (Original Post)
icymist
Sep 2015
OP
Sheeesh! This is only worthy of discussion because of the inanity of the question
tularetom
Sep 2015
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)1. Sheeesh! This is only worthy of discussion because of the inanity of the question
I heard they also asked "If you are elected president, what do you want your Secret Service "handle" to be?
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)5. TickleShits
You asked... I answered.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)2. Didn't one of them say Maggie Thatcher last week?
I cannot think of any admirable conservative American women neither. (And I'm not implying Thatcher was admirable)
icymist
(15,888 posts)3. Yeah. Jeb!
It's in the article.
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)4. "Ummm ... Benghazi!!11!"
No one could think of a name that might not have a Dem
connection or embarrass them in some other way.
And I thought Dumbya was a clueless idiot.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)6. Harriet Stowe on the $10, Elizabeth Stanton on the $20
Those are my votes. Just sayin'
tavernier
(12,428 posts)7. Monica.
Their patron saint.