In September, the board of Sewall-Belmont House plans to honor former first lady Laura Bush with the Alice award, a prize named after suffragette Alice Paul. Celebrating the accomplishments of a Republican woman is, of course, an almost unspeakable horror to the feminist Left.
Led by NOW co-founder Sonia Pressman Fuentes, 22 self-appointed arbiters of what’s Good for Women™ have their feminist panties twisted into bunches, and boy are they chafing.
“When I read that the award was going to be given to Laura Bush, I felt as if I’d had a sudden onset of Alzheimer’s,” she told Yeas & Nays. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
Hey, that’s how we felt when President Obama won the Nobel Prize. Only, y’know, he didn’t do anything to deserve it.
Fuentes told the Washington Examiner this is not a partisan issue.
I’m not complaining that she’s a Republican. I’m complaining that she’s never done anything for women to get this award.
Really? If it’s not a partisan complaint, why does the protest letter include this:
To give it to a non-feminist Republican figurehead, at a time when the Republican Party is doing its utmost to demolish women’s hard-fought rights, reflects a stunning lapse of judgment.
Ah, the Republican patriarchy’s ol’ War on Women. Will it never end?
You need more than a vagina to be a feminist. #LauraBush needs to do more for #WomensRights… http://t.co/djPXxwNR
— One Million Vaginas (@OneMillionVjj) June 18, 2012
Award available. Victims only. Inquire within.
@irritatedwoman so completely liberal to put partisan politics ahead of true leadership and progress. It's disgusting. God bless Laura Bush.
— Unrepresented (@jwfrisch) June 19, 2012
Even the former first lady’s support for legally available abortion isn’t sufficient to admit her to the sisterhood. Why? As always, because Booooosh!
https://twitter.com/arabyialatina/status/214839967258648577
While femme-agogues raged in a collective tantrum and scrambled to offer “palatable” left-wing alternatives like Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Eleanor Smeal, the conservative Twitterverse easily reeled off the many reasons to honor Bush’s work on behalf of women.
She’s “never done anything for women”? Try again, lefties.
NOW doesn't think Laura Bush did anything for women http://t.co/Dn5huNCi she only brought attn to Afghani women suffering @ hands of taliban
— Mary Margaret (@marymhbamafan) June 19, 2012
So the NOW prez doesn't think helping those with breast cancer or heart disease is helping women? What does she mean? http://t.co/dEAe986V
— John Tackes (@MoJohnT) June 19, 2012
She PAC co-chair Teri Christoph launched the #StandWithLaura hashtag to push back against the Left’s insulting, demeaning attacks on the former first lady.
Laura Bush championed education and literacy issues for all children. I #StandWithLaura.
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
In Afghanistan, too – where is #NOW on that? RT @TeriChristoph: Laura Bush championed edu & literacy issues for all kids I #StandWithLaura
— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) June 19, 2012
Laura Bush raised 2 daughters, currently employed, not living off taxpayers. Adding to the fabric of community. #StandWithLaura
— Karen Martin (@karmartin) June 19, 2012
Laura Bush traveled to the Middle East to raise awareness about breast cancer. #StandWithLaura
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
Laura Bush supported The Heart Truth, a campaign to raise awareness about the risks of heart disease in WOMEN. #StandWithLaura
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
As First Lady, Laura Bush gave a radio address to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women. #StandWithLaura
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health promotes a multidisciplinary approach to, you guessed it, WOMEN'S health. #StandWithLaura
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
Laura Bush has done way more for women than NOW ever has. #StandWithLaura
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 19, 2012
Did you know Laura #Bush has traveled to war zones in #Afghanistan to promote #education for Afghan #girls? #StandWithLaura
— Prudence (@dennygirltwo) June 19, 2012
I #StandWithLaura who has fought for women who know what true oppression is, not some whiney 30 something that wants her pills paid for.
— littlepol (@littlepol) June 19, 2012
Laura Bush is a REAL feminist, who quietly works for a better life 4 women of ALL beliefs & walks of life #StandWithLaura
— The Real Feminist (@RealFeminists) June 19, 2012
By the way, lefties. The Sewall-Belmont board has no intention of caving to your bullying, so you might as well get to work untwisting those panties. It’ll take a while.
Officials at Sewall-Belmont are standing up for her, too, saying she “transcends cultural, political and geographic boundaries” in her advocacy for women.
“Through Mrs. Bush’s commitment to education, health care and human rights, she has made an impact on women’s lives both at home and abroad,” said the group’s executive director, Page Harrington.
