Ann Coulter's Idiotic Political Strategy: Taking Away Women's Right to Vote

This post, written by Page Gardner, originally appeared on Think Progress

Earlier this week, Ann Coulter told The New York Observer that she believes women shouldn't have the right to vote:

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and "We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care -- and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?"Sigh. Where to begin?

If we were to subscribe to Ms. Coulter's theory -- that single women be left out of the political process -- and further assume that given the leading GOP presidential candidates decision to skip Hispanic and African American forums, those Americans be left out as well, we could very well believe that conservatives want the elections decided by married white men.

Let's hope that's not true.

The fact is that anyone seeking elected office ignores unmarried Americans at their peril. With each passing year, America is becoming more unmarried. One in four voters is a single woman. It is the marriage gap -- not the gender gap or income gap -- that will decide the 2008 election.

Page Gardner is president and founder of Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund.

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