Comments on: Geraldine Ferraro, the First Woman to Run for VP, has Died https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501243 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:14:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501243 James, good point.

]]> By: James https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501242 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:53:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501242 There have been many women to run on a national ticket – but (except for Ferraro and Palin) they haven’t been members of the two major parties.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501241 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:29:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501241 I was so excited to see her on a presidential ticket. To have her followed by Palin, is the sort of irony only matched by Thurgood Marshall being followed by Clarence Thomas on the SCOTUS.

]]> By: David https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501240 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:04:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501240 She managed to strike the right balance between her family and her career. However, many of her colleagues within her own team questioned her ability to lead the country together with Mondale.

]]> By: feralboy12 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501239 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:02:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/26/geraldine-ferraro-the-first-wo/#comment-501239 The selection of Ferraro was kind of a Hail Mary (or maybe Hail Gerry) for Mondale; he wasn’t exactly a spellbinder, and Reagan had propped up the economy enough and was running those vacuous “Morning In America” ads. Ms. Ferraro wasn’t really set up to succeed. There were also a couple of obvious gimme-type jokes going around that I won’t repeat here.
Rest in peace, lady. You did make history.

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