"I'm not sure I'm going to state this exactly right, but I think there are some [Republicans] who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don't understand—I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat—but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney."—Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in an interview with the Huffington Post, where it was noted after the above quote: "Albright then revised her pool of rationally thinking female Romney supporters to include his five daughters-in-law, an obvious but hardly generous expansion."
I'm totally with Albright. While I know intellectually that there are women who vote Republican and have their considered reasons for doing so, and while I wholly respect their right to independent choice, I will never understand nor share that urge.
For so many reasons.
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