“They don’t have emotional stability,” said Barbara Adams, 64, of New Orleans. “Look at Hurricane Katrina. We had a female governor and she f’d it up big time. So no.”
Marlena, an executive assistant from Miami who declined to share her last name, said she wants the “best candidate — male or female.”
“I’m not going to vote for a woman just because she’s a woman,” she said. “I’m for equal opportunity, all around.”
The conference, which attracts the GOP’s biggest stars, is dominated by conservative activists and isn’t necessarily indicative of the party’s broader views. But the insistence that gender is a non-factor is striking given the importance that the issue is already playing in the early stages of the 2016 contest.
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“Women are now 53% of voters,” she said. “As I like to tell some of my Democratic friends who continue to talk about the war on women, we are not a special interest group — we are the majority of the nation.”
Fiorina also confidently declared that she could be just the person to give Clinton a run for her money.
“If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing,” she said.
