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Usually the candidate I like running for president doesn’t make the ticket. Usually, they decide not to even run at the last minute or never really considered.

I have found this round of primaries extremely interesting as my husband, a HUGE Ron Paul fan has kept me abreast of the way the media buried Ron Paul and made his supporters look like a bunch of lunatics. My husband is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known, and he may seem crazy to me at moments, like when he insists brunswick stew out of a can is healthy because of “all the vegetables”, however, he’s not a lunatic…

But the thing I’ve noticed is how people say things they would NEVER have said if they were referring to a man when talking about Hillary. She and Barack have been certainly going the rounds, but never has a newsperson or morning anchor referred to a presidential candidate’s heated reply with the sound you would use when referring to a cat fight. At least never that I have heard. I’ve heard men call up various radio show and say they wouldn’t vote for Hillary because of her “monthly visitor” because they’ve “been around their wives enough to know better”. Other than that issue, they’d “vote for her in a second, if she were a man.”

Come on. Really?

I can come up with a few stereotypes about men that could/would prevent me from ever voting for a man again. I’m sure we all could find someone we’ve known who is the epitome of any one stereotype.