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Dave Ross' question is whether this female superiority can really survive politics. (AP Photo/File)

Double check your bungee cord America, it looks like we're going over

BY Dave Ross  on December 13, 2012 @ 8:20 am (Updated: 8:47 am - 12/13/12 )

The President is off to Hawaii, with no resolution to the fiscal cliff talks in sight.

Leading us to wonder, what if women were in charge? A group of female senators told ABC's Diane Sawyer women would've gotten results by now. Maybe they're right.

I could see President Hillary and Speaker Palin going arm in arm to the ladies room and coming back with a solution.

In fact earlier this year, the Harvard Business Review surveyed over 7,200 business executives and found that women were hands-down better leaders than men. Not just because they're more nurturing and collaborative, but on almost every other leadership benchmark: initiative, self-development, integrity, honesty, getting results, building relationships.

It's all women, women, women.

And I don't doubt those results for a moment. My question is whether this female superiority can really survive politics. Whatever superior instincts women bring, the only way you get to keep your job in politics, male or female, is by winning elections. We don't choose our leaders by consensus, or by discernment, we elect them, and the way you win elections is by beating the competition's brains out, and that attracts a certain type of person.

And there ARE women in the negotiations! Fiscal supercommittee member Senator Patty Murray said, "We are not going to accept an unfair deal that hurts middle class America and protects the wealthiest Americans. Period."

She will beat your brains out.

Perhaps in a more nurturing way than a man would, but as her string of defeated challengers can tell you, it hurts just as much.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • The Dude Abides wrote...
    BTW
    December 13, 2012 12:59 pm
    Why the He77 do we care that Obama's in Hawaii? It's Christmas time, and the man deserves a little time in the sun to celebrate the upcoming holidays with his family. Also, he just finished beating Romney like a red-headed stepchild, and we all know that campaigning for pres can be even harder and more stressful than actually being pres. Besides, we all know he's still working over there, at least a little bit.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO SPEND AND SPEND AND SPEND AND BORROW AND BORROW AND BORROW!!!!
    December 13, 2012 1:06 pm
    Jeez, what is so hard about grasping that?
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  • BeenThere wrote...
    HPD 5-0.....If we had a female President and she spends like my wife shops.....
    December 13, 2012 9:14 pm
    we're doomed as a country.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    But if a woman was president...
    December 13, 2012 1:07 pm
    ...she might start WWIII one week every month.
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  • murr wrote...
    He did lead us to this cliff
    December 13, 2012 1:21 pm
    Now he is trying to hold a gun to america's head. Yea a woman should be in charge. That way the budget can be mananged by feelings, and not math.
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  • Roark wrote...
    Dumbest person in the Senate
    December 13, 2012 1:29 pm
    I'll engage in a little of the left's tactics here and remind people Patty Murry has been named "Dumbest Senator" more than once. Now, since Obama is off for another vacation when he should be WORKING, our economic doom is now in her hands. This is the "Peter Principle" at it's horrific best. All seriousness aside, Murry WAS the person left in charge of negotiating the last deal which gave us this "fiscal cliff" deal in the first place.
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  • TheSymbolForBoron wrote...
    Hey Roark, your dumas is showing
    December 13, 2012 5:29 pm
    ...Named 'Dumbest Senator' by such 'serious' RWNJ sources as:

    FrontPageMag.com. FrontPageMag.com is a neo-conservative magazine founded by ex-Marxist (Trokskyite) turned neo-conservative activist David Horowitz. FrontPage's output ranges from old-fashioned red-baiting and neocon punditry, to pushing pro-Likud zionist propaganda.

    AND

    MichelleMalkin.com (I am laughing out loud at that one! Way to go!)

    AND

    HumanEvents.com. It is published in Washington, DC by Eagle Publishing (which also owns Regnery Publishing), a subsidiary of Phillips Publishing. Thomas S. Winter is editor-in-chief and [[Cathy Taylor]] is editorial director.

    Regular writers have included Robert Novak, Ann Coulter, Terrence P. Jeffery and John Gizzi. Occasional contributors have included Pat Buchanan, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich and Oliver North, as well as conservative celebrities such as Ted Nugent, Chuck Norris, Neil W. McCabe and Pat Sajak.

    I vote for you as dumbest poster on this topic. You've exposed yourself as just another flaccid RWNJ. The world according to Coulter, Nugent and Pat Sajak! Oh, and you, the dumbest poster on this topic. Congratulations. You beat the fireman (arsonist) on this one. A difficult task for sure, but a job well done! My thanks for a good laugh!

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