Reading The Bush Blog

We read that Bush has the radical feminist vote locked up. Squeezed in between the weekly announcement of Ken Mehlman's appearance on the Hugh Hewitt radio program and an ever-informative "Did you know?" feature, the Bush Blog links to Crazy Davy's Frontpage e-rag. The link is to an article by Phyllis Chesler, a "radical feminist" according to the Bush Blog, and an author, who I don't know a whole lot about.

In her article, Chesler throws her support to Bush because:

"....I still possess enough common sense to understand that life is better for women in (far-from-perfect) America than it was for women under the Taliban."

The long and short of the article is that Chesler believes Bush "is a man of both faith and action who has committed our country's money and troops to a vision of democracy and women's rights in the Islamic world." Oh, so that's what Bush is doing in Afghanistan.

Chesler also uses a Crazy Davy favorite, smearing "the left" without citing any evidence for the smear:

My colleagues on the progressive and feminist Left lead relatively safe and privileged lives in the West. Perhaps this is why they are romanticizing and glorifying illiterate, suicidal killers, new Noble Savages; they want "action," they are incapable of fomenting any, (although their ideas of revolution have actually fomented quite a lot of death in the past). Do they think to expiate a false, liberal guilt in this way? Yes, I say. Is this a form of contempt, masked as compassion for the wretched of the earth? Yes, again.

Having criticized their own country and civilization almost to death, do such ideologues now want that civilization to literally die? I fear they do. I hope I am wrong. Does human imperfection--and human resistance to ideological perfection--so offend them that they wish to see it all blown up, cleansed? Yes, again.

That's right -- progressive, leftist feminists want civilization to die and all human imperfection blown up. (Or they want America all blown up, or civilization or something. Chesler could use an editor.) I fear that the dimwits running the Bush Blog take this kind of drivel seriously.