Special Guest Blogger: Victoria Woodhull

One thing you would hope for in a leader is intelligence, you would think twice about handing the reins of your economy over to a person who had L and R printed on their shoes but American kids grow up hearing that anyone can become President and 21 people have done it before i had a go at it and they had all been male and it had been that way ever since a guy who owned 600 people helped start the country by writing 'all Men are created equal'.
During my career i started a newspaper which focused on a number of controversial topics, such as women's suffrage, free love, and Spiritualism and in my spare time i was a suffrage pioneer, became one of the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street and even ran my own successful brokerage all during a time period in which women weren't supposed to work and didn't even have the right to vote so with that in mind, i thought those men running the country are all awful, i can do a better job than them so with the many, many dollars made from my stockbrokers job, i threw my hat into the ring for the 1872 election for President of the United States as a third-party candidate for the Equal Rights Party and first ever bra wearing candidate against incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant.
My campaign ran on the idea that women didn't need a man to make our decisions for us and women should have the right to vote but my campaign didn't get off to the best start.
The idea to give women the vote was a non-starter and claiming to be a Spiritualist who would be guided in Office by ghost advisors from the World of Spirit including Demosthenes, Napoleon and Josephine wasn't a vote winner and my running mate, Frederick Douglas, was next to useless, at one of my stump speeches he actually urged people to vote for Grant!
The campaign never really got going at all, amazingly my views on equal rights for women earned more public ire and derision than believing that a French General's wife who had been dead for 60 years was deciding economic policy and on election day i never received one vote and despite being a candidate i couldn't even do it not that i could vote anyway as i was in prison on election day for my newspaper publishing an article revealing Congregationalist Clergyman, Henry Ward Beecher's, extramarital affairs which was deemed indecent and obscene.
Giving America the finger for not voting for me, i went to live England and gave up hopes of ever being able to pass laws over America but seeing what the the male moron's they have elected have done to America since, i wouldn't pass water over it now.