Politics & Government
Tea Party Leader: Women Too 'Mean, Hateful' To Vote
Janis Lane, president of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, is quoted as saying, "Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting."
An interview with a Tea Party leader from Mississipi is making the rounds this week as left-leaning media hold up statements attributed to Janis Lane as evidence that the right-leaning group is on the fringe.
The interview said in part:
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Lane: I'm really going to set you back here. Probably the biggest turn we ever made was when the women got the right to vote.
What do you mean?
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Lane: Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person. I do not see that in men. The whole time I worked, I'd much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you never can trust them.
Lane was interviewed by the Jackson Free Press in mid-June and the question and answer article appeared later that month.
The Free Press is alternative weekly. The interview is being recirculated this week by Alternet, a left of center news aggregation service.
What do you think? Do you think Lane was misquoted or taken out of context? Or do you agree?
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