Phyllis Schlafly Elephant: Anti-Feminist Mentor at the Core of Palin Strategy

"Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (born August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American conservative political activist known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. Her bestselling book, A Choice, Not An Echo, was published in 1964 from her home in Alton, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from her native St. Louis. From this self-publication, she formed her Pere Marquette Publishers company. A Choice, Not an Echo decries the power of the "Eastern Establishment" in the Republican Party once exercised by New York Governors Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Schlafly supported U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater in his unsuccessful race against Lyndon B. Johnson. (Sound familiar, folks???)


Schlafly has co-authored several books on national defense and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the former Soviet Union.[2] In 1961 she wrote that arms control "will not stop Red aggression any more than disarming our local police will stop murder, theft, and rape."[3]

Schlafly continues to exert some influence within the Republican Party and maintains an active presence on the lecture circuit. In 1972, she founded the Eagle Forum, and was the founder and president of a sister organization known as the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which also operates in the Eagle Forum's St. Louis office. She played a key role in writing some socially conservative language in the Republican National Convention's platform, most recently in 2004. As of 2007, she is still the president of both organizations. Since 1967, she has published her own political newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report."

Work Cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly

Speaker of the House Elephant: Nancy Pelosi for President

... the plot thickens in Washington politics, trusty hero Dennis Kucinich takes on Congressional leader's resistence to impeachment.

Boi-oi-oi-ng moment! Myself a working woman of the same generation as Speaker Pelosi, politically active, really-really for Hillary, suffering from a cracked skull, hitting the ceiling over and over (FYI: it ain't glass in my world... it's cement... they don't even see us technical, operations, HR or other middle managers) here it is... the one sure way to guarantee a Democratic sweep come November is for the Speaker to do exactly what she is doing.. stay cool, resist,and accept an order to impeach only if you are forced. Come to think of it, when Bush and Cheney choose to resign before they are impeached, when the people continue to demand truth returns to the front page, then a boomer woman becomes the first female President of the US of A!!!

Women need this moment... all of us still earning .77 cents on the dollar, working twice as hard as the guys (you know it), the big bulge at the bottom of the food chain, putting up with this for what? Women need this shot in the arm... that justice is served, the we are protected by our government, that our children learn the correct lessons. My God is smiling, and she has a terrific sense of play. No politics, no drama, just a women showing up on the clean up committee after the frat party. Hee!

Maybe, for just one "bright, shining moment" a woman leads as an honorable, interim President. And another great moment when President Obama takes his oath in 2009, as the torch is passed to a new generation of Americans, asking not what their country can do for them, but "Oh boy, what we can do for the planet!"

PARTY TO THE PEOPLE.