Attitudes towards a woman President

[Gabu]

None of the above: I would vote for a woman provided she was the most qualified candidate.

[Gabu]

Option 5

I would vote for who I regard to be the most qualified and shares my views.  That holds regardless of whether they are Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Man, Woman, Streight or Gay.  I would never vote for some simply because they are one of those, because it would be another form of Affirmative Action, which is never beneficial to society.  In the 2000 primary, that candidate for me was Elizabeth Dole, until she dropped out.

You know, for your being my mirror image in the Political Compass, we sure seem to agree on a lot.

[Gabu]

Doubtful I would vote for a woman to be commander in chief of the armed forces, but I would if she was the most qualified candidate (likely by virtue of all the other ones sucking).

You're Not an Idiot!Not in this case anyway. I agree with you here.  A woman should never be President of the United States of America. Tradition does count for something. They also shouldn't be preachers/ministers.

Uh, "tradition"? All presidents have also had blue eyes. Does that mean we should never elected a brown-eyed president?

Tradition counts for something, but tradition is not an excuse to never change. Tradition is simply a blockade when it interferes with progress.

Progress is not having a woman President.

Actually, by definition, progress means "going forwards." That would be changing nothing, so it wouldn't be progress.

Why is not electing women a tradition? It just has not happen. By that argument, slavery was a tradition, as was the feeding of Christians to lions.

Behind quoting the Bible to tell someone they are wrong, saying "we shouldn't do that because we have not done it before" is my least favorite argument for anything.

In the beginning of human life (or in the Garden of Eden, if you like), humans did nothing.

By the logic of "tradition is best", we should just sit here, doing absolutely nothing, because anything else would not be adhering to tradition.

[Gabu]

I'm not a sexist, but at this day and age, I probably wouldnt vote for a woman for President, no matter what party.

sex·ism
n.

   1. Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women.

Given that you're clearly making a distinction based on gender, I would say that it technically certainly is a sexist thing to say.

Now, whether or not that's a bad thing in this case is in debate.

[Gabu]

None of the above: I would vote for a woman provided she was the most qualified candidate.

I think that's option 2

I wouldn't vote for her because she was in the same party as me; I'd vote for her because she was the most qualified candidate in my view.  The two quite coincide, but one does not imply the other.