Regarding for the disappointing election results, no candidate ran on women's issues. Sure it was on their websites and if you asked them they would try to score some political points with stock answers. However, voters will give incoming Tea-Partiers a very short leash and if they become hypocrites they won't be given a second chance for a decade; they won because they won the moderate vote. It's kind of hypocritical to complain that the government is in your business and telling you how to live your life and then try to control another's reproductive rights (though it's kind of what Republican's do).
I think, and I could just be too optimistic, that right-wing Republicans will try to avoid issues that will affect their elect-ability with the moderate voting block for as long as they can. If they start drifting from what they nationally ran on I think people will turn on them really quick. Yeah most of them ran on overturning Health Care Reform and perhaps it was passed too hastily, but most Americans DO want Health Care Reform and I think that's at least something to be optimistic about. If Republicans repeal Health Care Reform and do not replace it with something equally beneficial, they are screwed. Democrats also have control of the Senate and the Presidency, so there is only so much anti-women candidates can do to set back your hard work. If Obama regains popularity, I could see Democrats regaining many of the seats they lost.
If it makes you feel better North Carolina, which has laws requiring abstinence only education that are decades old, has acknowledged it doesn't work and has been trying to diversify their sex education over the past year or so.
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Regarding for the disappointing election results, no candidate ran on women's issues. Sure it was on their websites and if you asked them they would try to score some political points with stock answers. However, voters will give incoming Tea-Partiers a very short leash and if they become hypocrites they won't be given a second chance for a decade; they won because they won the moderate vote. It's kind of hypocritical to complain that the government is in your business and telling you how to live your life and then try to control another's reproductive rights (though it's kind of what Republican's do).
I think, and I could just be too optimistic, that right-wing Republicans will try to avoid issues that will affect their elect-ability with the moderate voting block for as long as they can. If they start drifting from what they nationally ran on I think people will turn on them really quick. Yeah most of them ran on overturning Health Care Reform and perhaps it was passed too hastily, but most Americans DO want Health Care Reform and I think that's at least something to be optimistic about. If Republicans repeal Health Care Reform and do not replace it with something equally beneficial, they are screwed. Democrats also have control of the Senate and the Presidency, so there is only so much anti-women candidates can do to set back your hard work. If Obama regains popularity, I could see Democrats regaining many of the seats they lost.
If it makes you feel better North Carolina, which has laws requiring abstinence only education that are decades old, has acknowledged it doesn't work and has been trying to diversify their sex education over the past year or so.
November 15, 2010 - 8:51pmThis Comment
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