the irony is a bit funny. Michele Bachmann

[doggie]

Here woman have been waiting for a woman to become president and when we have for the first time in history woman competing for the job and what do we have? woman hating educating hating wackadoodle crazy religious nut for a candidate.

Now ironic is that it just boggles the mind really.

[MrsYoungie]

The thought of either Michelle Bachman or Herman Cain (he is black, right? really?) running for president makes me a little ill. Actually - it makes me a lot ill.

[emmiedahl]

It's not the first time. Hillary Clinton? I don't like her personally, but she was a candidate until the DNC convention. That's a lot closer than Palin or Bachmann have made it.

[Boltingmadonna]

Yeah, hello, Bachmann is totally NOT the first. Please meet Margaret Chase Smith--a Republican back in the day when you oculd still be moderate, well-educated, and civil as a Republican.

Via her wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith

She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater)

For a much more complete article, see "Women Who Ran for President," by Jo Freeman.

http://www.jofreeman.com/politics/womprez03.htm

Some excerpts:

Between 1964 and 2004 over fifty women were on at least one ballot as candidates for President, both as minor party candidates and as candidates in primaries for the nomination of the Republican or Democratic parties.

[Victoria] Woodhull may have been the first woman to be nominated for President but the first woman to actually campaign was Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood in 1884. Born in upper New York State on October 24, 1830, she had broken many barriers before insisting that she could receive votes even though she could not cast one.

In 1968 Charlene Mitchell became the first woman to head a minor party ticket in the Twentieth Century, and also the first African American of any party to appear on a Presidential ballot.

By 1972 the women’s liberation movement was flourishing and consciousness of women’s issues and women as a potential voting bloc was high. Three women ran for President that year. Linda Jenness was the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Congresswomen Patsy Mink (HA) and Shirley Chisholm (NY) ran in several Democratic Party primaries.

There's a whole lot more, both on the right and on the left. Seriously, you-all need to read this article. I appreciate the OP, even though it was erroneous, because I now know a lot of things I didn't know before! History--it's your friend!

[bananacat]

Bachmann has no chance of winning the primaries, and Herman Cain has a very small chance. They're tokens. They'll parade around this female candidate to act like they're not sexist, but in the privacy of the voting booths, they'll vote for a man, and probably a white man.

[Guest Anonymous]

Yeah, hello, Bachmann is totally NOT the first. Please meet Margaret Chase Smith--a Republican back in the day when you oculd still be moderate, well-educated, and civil as a Republican.

Via her wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith

For a much more complete article, see "Women Who Ran for President," by Jo Freeman.

http://www.jofreeman.com/politics/womprez03.htm

Some excerpts:

There's a whole lot more, both on the right and on the left. Seriously, you-all need to read this article. I appreciate the OP, even though it was erroneous, because I now know a lot of things I didn't know before! History--it's your friend!

There was also Victoria Woodhull, who in 1872 ran for President on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Her running mate was Frederick Douglass. She spent Election Night, 1872 in the Ludlow Street Jail, in New York, for declaring in her newsletter that Henry Ward Beecher was having adulterous affairs with the wives of other men in his congregation. That the charges were true didn't help Victoria; she was still arrested for obscenity, but acquitted six months later on a technicality. Victoria and her younger sister, Tennie, were among the first women to hold seats on the New York Stock Exchange.

[finleeport]

I wonder what would Doug Philips do if a woman was voted for president?

He is certainly against women in power, but what about Deborah the Judge of Israel, Hulda the prophetess, Priscilla and Aquila the missionaries, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth and Catherine the Great?

[Childless]

I think if a woman were elected president, the fundies' heads would explode. That'd be fun to watch! :lol:

[finleeport]

I think if a woman were elected president, the fundies' heads would explode. That'd be fun to watch! :lol:

Didn't they read that one of the judges of Israel was a woman named Deborah? or do they think that she was a punishment according Isaiah? where it said that if they misbehave God will make women and children rule them