All too often we find ourselves making a decision based on emotion as oppossed to logic or common sense. Wether it be buying the I-Phone the day it comes out, full well knowing it will be considerably cheaper in the coming months, or getting back together with an ex whom you know is incapable of being in a monogomous relationship. Many people make emotional decisions on a daily basis and look back in the coming months or years only to smack themselves in the forehead and say “What was I thinking?”

If Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is correct, many Republican women will smacking themselves in the forehead in the coming years. Mark Penn is is predicting that roughly 24 percent of Republican women would vote for Hillary in the 2008 general election because of the “emotional” appeal of electing the country’s first woman president.

Personally I find this prediction very unlikely, and have yet to meet a Republican man or woman who would even consider voting for Hillary. The idea that any woman would vote for Hillary simply becuase she is a woman is just as sickening as the idea that anyone would vote for Obama simply because he is half black, or for Guliani because he is Italian. Truth be told, those are issues more likely to happen on the Democratic side of the aisle who are more apt to make political decisions based on emotion. John Hawkins at Right Wing News once said “liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues” and I think that holds true in this matter, as it would take a childlike emotion to vote for someone who represents the exact opposite of everything you believe in.

The ’stand by your man’ approach Hillary took during the multitude of sex scandals her husband was involved in during his Presidency alone was enough to convince many Republican women she would not be their candidate of choice. A few Republican women I spoke to went so far as to say that Hillary would be a bad President for women because she appears to draw all of her power from her husband which is against everything the feminist movement stood for.

I hope I am correct in my assumption that Republican women (and women in general for that matter) will be intelligent enough to overcome their ‘emotional urge’ to vote for a woman as President regardless of who that woman may be.

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Election 2008, Hillary Clinton