Is the U.S. ready for the first woman president?

[Lincoln Republican]

Yes, the U.S. is ready for the first woman President.

It is extremely unfortunate, however, that it has to be that woman, who most voters believe is untrustworthy, but the other choice is no better.

[Lincoln Republican]

More so than we're ready for any of the following:

•First president to go bankrupt 4 times
•First orange president
•First president to issue a veiled death threat against his major-party opposition
•First non-conservative Republican president in at least 36 years
•First openly racist president in decades
•First president to openly advocate discrimination based on religion

First President to openly make fun of a disabled person
First President to openly call women slobs, dogs, disgusting animals, fat pigs

[Lincoln Republican]

Elizabeth Dole ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000 but ended up withdrawing, lack of funds.

Had she won the nomination and the election, not only would she have become the first female President, but she would have made a fine President as well.

She would have been an excellent first woman President, respected and trusted, not like Hillary Clinton, who is mistrusted by most of the public.

[Lincoln Republican]

Again, if the Republican Party is so ready for a woman president, why has every woman who has run in the Republican Presidential Primary in the past half-century gone nowhere?

Oh, you mean like Shirley Chisholm in 1972, Elvena Lloyd-Duffie in 1996, Carol Moseley-Braun in 2004.

[Lincoln Republican]

You really are afraid to admit that up until Hillary that every woman who  has run in the Democrat Presidential Primary in the past half-century has gone nowhere, aren't you.

And must I remind you that it was the Republican Party that was the first major party to place in nomination a woman for the Presidential nomination, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.

[Lincoln Republican]

You really are afraid to admit that up until Hillary that every woman who  has run in the Democrat Presidential Primary in the past half-century has gone nowhere, aren't you.

And must I remind you that it was the Republican Party that was the first major party to place in nomination a woman for the Presidential nomination, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.

how well has any republican woman ever done, Winfield.

Oh, and the fact Smith got like 6 votes at the 52 convention is not exactly establishing feminist bona fides.

1964 convention.

[Lincoln Republican]

You really are afraid to admit that up until Hillary that every woman who  has run in the Democrat Presidential Primary in the past half-century has gone nowhere, aren't you.

And must I remind you that it was the Republican Party that was the first major party to place in nomination a woman for the Presidential nomination, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.

how well has any republican woman ever done, Winfield.

Oh, and the fact Smith got like 6 votes at the 52 convention is not exactly establishing feminist bona fides.

Yes, let's be honest: until Hillary no woman actually had an actual shot at the Presidency, much less the nomination. It's not a partisan issue, it's just a sad fact.

At least Democrats nominated a woman for VP twenty four years before your party did.

Elizabeth Dole was taken seriously in 2000, although of course had to withdraw due to lack of funding, although I do agree with the noble Earl that Hillary was the first woman to mount a serious and well funded campaign for the nomination of a major party. 

And congratulations to the Democrats for picking a woman for VP in 1984, even though it was clearly a token pick by Mondale, knowing he was headed for a historic defeat, and wanted to make a statement.