Frankly I’ve always thought that all most women wanted in order to be happy, and therefore persuaded into voting for Democrats, was to be provided with free, and unlimited, birth control and unrestricted access to an abortion right up to the time they were being wheeled into the delivery room. In at least that the last two election cycles it was that that seemed to have been the overriding issue and the one that seemed to be the most important to a majority of women. And any candidate who opposed such things was accused of being at ‘war with women’.
And one of those women was Kimberly Cole, who is a 36-year-old mother of three young children in Valencia, California. She was part of that so-called coalition which made it possible in 2008 for Barry to become the 44th president and that would also ensure, in 2012, that he would enjoy another four years in office. She was only too happy to buy all of Barry’s empty promises of ‘Hope and Change.’ Now, apparently, she is among the majority of Americans who have lost confidence in Barry’s so-called ‘leadership’ and the job he’s doing as president.
And it was during a recent interview that this gullible airhead, Ms. Cole, demonstrated just how naïve she really was, and remains. She said, "He’s been faced with a lot of challenges, and he’s lost his way." She claims to be worried that Barry lacks the resolve needed at a time when things at home and abroad seem to be unraveling. So Barry has been faced with a lot of challenges? How about the fact that he’s hip deep in a number of pretty serious scandals! Does that little fact bother this moron in the least? Apparently not, as she makes no reference to any of them.
Meanwhile on the opposite side of the country we have yet another rather disappointed, and just as naïve, female in the person of Karlene Richardson, 44, who once counted herself as a "very strong supporter" of Barry. But now she feels much the same as Cole does. This author and motivational speaker who teaches health-care administration at a community college in Queens said, "Honestly, I just feel that what I bought into is not what I’m getting." Adding "I’m starting to wonder whether the world takes us seriously." Well the answer to that is a simple one, NO!
Both of these women, Cole and Richardson, were among those recently surveyed in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll and represent one of its most striking findings. That being, the degree to which Barry’s approval has managed to slip among key parts of the coalition, comprised of a rather odd assortment of supporters, that was most responsible for putting him into office in the first place. The coalition of women, younger voters and Latino voters. Look, all of these people knew what they were getting, and now they have little right to complain.
Women surveyed said they now disapprove of Barry by a 50 percent to 44 percent margin, which is very near to an all-time low in the poll. It’s almost the reverse of the 55 percent to 44 percent breakdown for Barry among female voters in 2012, according to exit polls at the time. His approval rating among women has slipped four percentage points from a year ago and 16 points since his second inaugural in January 2013, when his approval was 60 percent among the group. So it would seem that the criteria women used in selecting for whom to vote was a little faulty.
Of all the groups that tend to vote Democrat, women are said to be, traditionally, the most likely to be swing voters, and the two parties have fought fiercely to win over their loyalties. And the Democrats, using their mantra of the ‘war on women’, have managed to come out ahead in the more recent election cycles. At slightly over half the electorate, they are not a monolith, of course. Single women, or the free birth control crowd, tend to vote more solidly Democrat, while married women usually tend to vote Republican.
But there is fresh and growing evidence that many women’s faith in Barry has turned to misgivings, possibly making it more difficult for his party to retain their support in this year’s midterms and beyond. Virginia Wilson, 60, of Charleston, W.Va., is another disillusioned Barry voter. She said, "I can’t blame it all on him." But she added, "There was going to be a change, that we would see people coming together, instead of falling apart." So I’m curious, why might it be that she has difficulty blaming the one guy most responsible for things "falling apart?"
Suburban women’s concerns, in particular, tends to change from election to election, and over the years, pollsters and political strategists have come up with different labels to describe this crucial slice of the electorate. In the 1990s, these middle-class women were known as "soccer moms," and ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton won reelection in part because of how well he related to their harried lives. And apparently these "soccer moms" had very little trouble in deciding to support this rapist, which, I suppose, tells us far more about them than it does the rapist, ‘Slick Willie.’
In the Post-ABC poll, Barry’s handling of international affairs loomed as a significant problem for women. Just 37 percent said they approve of the job he is doing, which is his lowest rating on this issue among women in Post-ABC polls and nearly matches his 38 percent approval among men. When called back for follow-up interviews, some of the women who responded to the Post-ABC poll said they, too, had been unsettled by the beheadings and by Barry’s decision to play golf just minutes after giving a statement expressing his revulsion at the death of journalist James Foley.
Cole, the California woman, said it seemed to her that Barry was "very nonchalant. . . . The personal side of it, that he has feelings, is gone." And Richardson, interviewed before Barry gave his idiotic prime-time speech this past Wednesday, during which he laid out his newly minted plan to target the non-Islamic, Islamic State with airstrikes, said "he just made these promises that he doesn’t go through with" related to the terrorist group. How much effect this will have on the midterm elections remains unclear. But I’d be willing to bet, not much.
Because look, at the end of the day the fact that women may now be coming a little less enchanted with Barry matters very little, at least in the long term. Because, you see, women are much like blacks when it comes to selecting who to vote for. For blacks the main criteria for selecting candidate is race, things like experience or abilities matter very little. For women, the primary qualifier for a candidate is gender. Talk to any woman about 2016 and they’ll likely tell you that, yes, they intend to vote for Hitlery and for absolutely no other reason than because she’s a woman.
