Over My Dead Body Ann!

Ann Coulter made a disgusting attack on the 19th Amendment in The New York Observer in a section cleverly titled “On Women”. For all of you who don’t know, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution finally gave American women the right to vote. The right to vote is the right to have a voice in our own the government, and it is our government. Somehow Ann Coulter thinks this is a bad thing. She criticizes the Democratic Party for fighting for women’s issues. Can I ask, what is wrong with that? Women make up the majority of the population of this country, why shouldn’t politicians speak to our issues? Isn’t that the point of a democracy, the majority of the population gets to make the decisions? Someone please correct me if I’m wrong…

It is absolutely amazing to me that in this day and age another woman can attack the amendment so many women fought and some died for. Inez Milholland was one of those women who died for the cause. She led 5,000 women on a march to the capitol on the day of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Yet Inez Millholland’s poor health and constant working for the cause of women’s suffrage led to her early death. Her last public words were, “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”

In less than one hundred years this country has gone from inspirational female leaders like Inez Milholland to women like Ann Coulter. We have gone from a woman who disregarded a doctor’s warnings about her work load because she believed in what she was fighting for: she believed in liberty for all. She believed in liberty for women. It seems that those days are gone and here are the days of Ann Coulter, a woman who launches verbal harpoons for the sake of selling books, for the sake of her own profit margin! Someone better remind Ann that it was same women who fought for her right to vote, whether she wants that right or not, that fought for women to own property. If those women hadn’t had stood up to the segregationist society of the time, poor little Annie Coulter would be stuck giving all her profits from her very popular books to her father (since Ann is not married). So Ann should remember that when she is taking her very large check to the bank!


Here is Ann Coulter in her own words:

On women:
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and 'We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care -- and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?'