This is for all of the women out there who didn’t “settle” (and the men who believe in them).
According the exit polls, women supported Clinton over Trump
by 12%. A couple of comments about the
exit polls. First-are these the same
polls they were using to predict Hillary’s landslide win? Second-considering the political climate for
this election and the fact that there were obviously a lot more people who
voted for Trump than admitted it to the pollsters, how many women do you really
think answered honestly when they were asked who they voted for? My 22 year old son doesn’t even talk to his
friends about supporting Trump-how likely were many of the women (and even men)
to admit that they voted for Trump in front of a potentially hostile group of
people? Oh wait, the left is the party
of love and tolerance and acceptance so that can’t be a reason.
I am proud to be raising a daughter who is self-confident
and strong enough to realize that she can be represented by someone who doesn’t
look like her or speak like her. She isn’t
going to be conned with the idea that she has to vote for someone just because
they have the same anatomical parts as her.
Obviously, at least 42% of the women who voted also realized this. I don’t think any of these women voted for
Trump because he was a man-they voted for him because they heard his message
and liked it!
We are the women who are working at McDonalds because the
job we worked at for years was eliminated when the company was closed or left
the country because they could no longer afford to operate here. We are the women working
two or three part time jobs to make ends meet because our hours have been cut
due to the costs of Obamacare. We are
the women who cried inside every day we left our babies at daycare because we
couldn’t afford to stay home and raise them ourselves. We are the women who are the cheerleaders for
our husbands and children who are struggling to find a job. We are the women crying over the bodies of
our dead children who were killed because they ended up in a gang after they couldn’t
find a job and had too much time on their hands. We are the women who have succeeded with our
lives because we worked hard and didn’t expect the government to take care of
us. We are the women who know things can be better
and are willing to work to make it happen.
We are this nation’s mothers, grandmothers, sisters, wives,
daughters and girlfriends. We are all races and all classes and all religions. We have high standards we expect our leaders
to meet and we aren’t willing to settle for less. As soon as the woman who meets these
standards decides to run and is willing to brave the terrible attacks from the
media and the left, we will be at the front of the line to vote for her. We are smart enough to know that we don’t
have to settle for someone like Hillary who is against everything we believe
in. We are patient enough to wait for
the right person. We are strong enough
to defend our choice when she comes along.
Right now, we have more important things to do. Short term, we will let our president elect and
other leaders know what we need. Long
term-we are nurturing those future woman presidents and they will be women we
will be proud to vote for!
Never settle!
