By Aaron Blake (EXCERPT) Full Story Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), hopes a shift toward recruiting more women will help Republicans chip away at Democrats’ newfound majority in 2008. “I think women candidates, as a rule, make better candidates than men,” Cole said, adding later, “We have not put the emphasis on finding and recruiting them that we should.” Cole calls fellow Oklahoma Rep. Mary Fallin, the other Republican woman newcomer, “a perfect candidate.” Like Bachmann, Fallin raised her children before going into state politics. She became the state’s first woman lieutenant governor in 1994 and this month became the first woman in Congress from her state since 1920. Fallin, who told The Hill on Friday that she will serve on the NRCC’s executive board, suggested the disparity between woman members in the parties might be partly based on both a different recruiting emphasis and the fact that women tend to lean more toward the Democrats. Posted at 1/23/2007 09:19:00 AM