They really, really don't like me. They really don't. Oh well.

PFAW (People for the American Way) really, really, REALLY doesn't like me. Nor can they take a joke.

When I introduced Phyllis Schlafly at the Vision America conference, I talked about her amazing decision to go to law school well into her forties and with six children running around the household. That was AFTER her historic victory against the ERA (which, if you have not read what it really would do, you need to. Now. She fought the battle with nothing but a phone and a kitchen table and then, having won one of the most astonishing victories in legislative history, decides, ya know, I think I'm going to go to law school.)

Here's the paragraph from PFAW about all of this hoopla:

"The Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly was the next featured speaker. Schlafly is, in many ways the matriarch of the Right Wing movement whose influence stems from her decade long fight against the Equal Rights Amendment, which she opposed, according to a piece in the New York Times, “on the grounds that it would take away the ‘special protection’ the ‘Christian tradition of chivalry’ offered women - in other words, the ‘right’ to be ‘supported and protected’ by men.” She was introduced by Kay Daly of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, a woman who has herself been touted as “the new Phyllis Schlafly.” Daly roundly praised Schlafly, claiming that “no one can annoy feminists like Phyllis Schlafly” and said she looked forward to the next Supreme Court vacancy so that she could work with Schlafly to realize her “dream of making the Left’s heads collectively explode.” Schlafly was welcomed to the podium by a standing ovation, a distinction that separated her from every other panel or speaker, as they only received standing ovations after their presentations."

At any rate, I was making a joke about how since Phyllis is a lawyer and all, if you
really wanted to see the Left's heads collectively explode, well,....could she fit a confirmation
fight into her schedule....as the nominee? Good heavens, if Miguel Estrada, Charles Pickering
and Priscilla Owen can cause heartburn and fail the leftist ideological litmus test, imagine what Phyllis would do to the Left! It was all in jest, folks.

Point is, friends, that the Left has been harassing folks like Phyllis for years and years and she has taken their vitriol with grace that few could muster. She has more energy and dedication than folks half her age and I pray that God continues to bless her with her good health, boundless energy and the patience to put up with the ill-tempered detractors.