Wednesday, October 03, 2007

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: COULTER'S NOT THE ONLY WINGNUT WHO THINKS IT'S A BAD IDEA

So is Ann Coulter the only right-winger who dreams of taking away women's right to vote? Nope. Here's Neal Boortz:

... Coulter is exactly right. Don't take her word for it, just read "Freedomnomics" by John Lott. Here we have a renowned economist going all the way back to the late 1980s to see what happens when women get the vote. His findings? In every single case, when women were given the right to vote the cost of government immediately began to rise as women, particularly single women, started voting for the candidates who would create more government spending programs designed to provide women with security. That magic word ... security.

Lott found that young single women overwhelmingly vote liberal. When they marry and start a family they start voting more conservatively. That would be because their sense of security is provided by their family, and they don't want government to interfere in their accumulation of wealth. Then, if that very same woman starts to feel that her marriage is threatened ... or if she becomes divorced ... she right back there voting for liberals again. Why? Security .. this time from the government instead of her husband.

Coulter is right. Deal with it ...


Boortz has conferred with Bush at the White House. Next time he's there for a confab, maybe they'll discuss repealing the 19th Amendment.

(And I won't even get into the fact that his source is serial fabricator John Lott.)