Dragonlady
Designing Woman
"Designing Woman", really? More like pathetic dupe. Do you really think limiting a search to fill highly responsible positions in Government should be limited to just people your familiar with? Only a freaking idiot would do that and the method used to compile the files on possible candidates is really immaterial. The point is to cast the widest net possible to find the best and the brightest to surround yourself with, a concept your dear leader has yet to learn. You might want to take a management course or two before you try to disparage the management style of successful people.
Please spare me the business 101 lectures. I'm qualified to teach the course. I know exactly what I'm talking about. It was Mitt's entire language and discussion around working women and women's issues, that was the issue. There are multiple reasons why 60% of women, overall, voted for Obama, and one of them was Romney's utter and abject lack of knowledge regarding women's issues.
The whole GOP treated women's issues in the campaign as unimportant compared to manly things like the economy. Most of women's rights issues are economic issues: access to birth control is an economic issue for women. That's why the only female demographic to vote for Romney in large numbers is married white women.
84% of the people who voted for Romney were white. When the party runs ads that say that Obama doesn't understand "traditional American values", that's code for "Obama isn't white" and that phrase was heard time and time again throughout the Republican campaign. The minorities certainly took it mean this is the white people's party and they have no interest in us. And they're probably right.