Who On Earth Can Still Oppose Female Suffrage?

Y'know, I've always known that the far right is absolutely made of crazy, but usually they manage to hide that crazy underneath layers and layers of smooth rhetoric. Lately, though, I have to say, they're having a hard time keeping the insanity in check.

For example: did you know that John Derbyshire, a columnist for the conservative National Review, has recently written a book— a book that contains a section entitled, "The Case Against Female Suffrage"?

Apparently, according to a recent radio interview, Derbyshire thinks women shouldn't vote (damn, I can't believe I'm even writing this sentence) because 1) women tend to vote for Democrats (well, at least he's being pragmatic), and 2) because, in his words, "They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much — then they’d like the state to do it for them.”

Oh, but it gets better, because Ann Coulter also thinks we shouldn't vote. "It’s kind of a pipe dream," she said of eliminating the female right to vote; "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."

Ha! "Single women." Because we all know that married women never vote for Democrats, right? Clearly, she's never met my mother. Or my grandmother. Or my aunts. Or, y'know, me. (And y'know, it takes a lotta nerve to generalize the voting patterns of married women, considering that Coulter has never been married herself.)

If the Republican Party would just openly and officially break with these morons, we wouldn't have a problem. But you know what? Elected, mainstream, well-known Republicans continue to encourage and condone the things these insane folks say. And when you start talking about taking away women's voting rights, well, you've gone too far.

Pssssst...conservatives! Your crazy is showing!