"Republicans just can’t stand to see a woman in the position of power, as a Speaker of the House."- Come on S.J. give me one scintilla of proof that Reps are any different from Dems this regard.
JLM, there really haven’t been any Republican women in power nationally, who are national figures, so we really don’t know how Democrats would react to a female Republican House Speaker, or somebody like Hillary Clinton, a strong presidential candidate who came to prominence by defeating a strong opponent in New York to become a Senator.
There have been a few female Republican senators such as Elizabeth Dole, but she was a minor senator, was not prominent nationally, she was pretty much ignored by Democratic Party (or at least was treated no different from any other Republican Senators).
So we really don’t know how Democrats will react to female Senate leader or female Speaker of the House (Republican).
But now we do know how Republicans behave towards a Democratic national figure, a female Speaker. They call her a bitch, a hag and a prostitute.