First female VP candidate Ferraro dies at 75

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First female VP candidate Ferraro dies at 75

BOSTON – Geraldine Ferraro's selection as Walter Mondale's Democratic running mate in the 1984 presidential election made her a winner as far as history was concerned, despite an unsuccessful campaign that proved to be a tough political slog against a popular incumbent.

Her vice presidential bid, the first for a woman on a major party ticket, emboldened women across the country to seek public office and helped lay the groundwork for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential candidacy in 2008 and John McCain's choice of his running mate, Sarah Palin, that year.

"By choosing a woman to run . you send a powerful signal to all Americans: There are no doors we cannot unlock," Ferraro said in her acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic convention. "We will place no limits on achievement. If we can do this, we can do anything."

Ferraro died Saturday in Boston, where the 75-year-old was being treated for complications of blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman for the family.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_ferraro

[tombogan03884]

One thing she could not do.
Cover up her hubbies Mob ties.  
Best Democratic Candidate the Republicans could have picked.  
I see they aren't talking about how Hillery fired her from her campaign for comments that drove the liberals ape shit. 

[fightingquaker13]

Screw the politics. She was a tough broad. No one who got be the first anything important, whether they were a wop, spic, mick, pollack, nigger, queer, proddy, catholic, jew, or broad did so by being a particularly nice individual. They might not have deserved the office. But they opened doors for those that did. There would be no Palin if not for Ferraro, and that's the truth. I never liked the woman, but you can't help but raise a glass to someone who kicked in the door, rolled in a grenade and made a difference.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

What a load of crap. 

I haven't done the research yet but I do not believe she was the first female VP candidate.
Hell, Shirley Chisholm ran for President in '68 .
Granted, she had no chance of winning, but then neither did any one associated with Mondale.

[fightingquaker13]

What a load of crap. 

I haven't done the research yet but I do not believe she was the first female VP candidate.
Hell, Shirley Chisholm ran for President in '68 .
Granted, she had no chance of winning, but then neither did any one associated with Mondale.

Actually Tom, the first female Vice-Presidential Candidate was Victoria Woddhull who ran on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872. Ferraro was the first  one who was serious (granted that Mondale didn't stand a snowball's chance). Still, she was on a major party ticket. Warts and all, Sarah and  Hillary both owe the woman.
FQ13

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