Longtime Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies at 92

[Starry Messenger]

Source: stlouis.cbslocal.com

"ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — Multiple sources are confirming to KMOX news that Phyllis Schlafly, has died.

Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972, a pro-family conservative group focusing heavily on social issues — it has about 80,000 members and, as of this week, Schlafly was still president.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in 1944 — her masters from Radcliffe College in 1945 — and a J.D. from Washington University in 1978.

Schlafly’s organization has been split this presidential election — Schlafly supported Donald Trump, though many board members disagreed. She maintained her leadership of the organization."

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Too bad she couldn't live long enough to see her worst nightmare come true, a woman for President.

[Joey Liberal]

1. Not a bad thing for humanity

RIP

[onehandle]

2. Cough.

[gopiscrap]

3. Good riddance

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Thanks for nothing, Phyl

But safe passage because I'm nice that way.

[obamanut2012]

5. This news is so upsetting to me

Because I don't have any champers in the case to celebrate.

[Starry Messenger]

8. We were caught short too.

We'll have to just drink the hot salty tears of Eagle Forum members.

[obamanut2012]

10. I found some Feminazi Cola, so that'll work

[shenmue]

96. Yeah

All I have is cheap Scotch.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. Ding-dong!

[cstanleytech]

23. Coulter died to?

[TNNurse]

32. My first thought

[paleotn]

33. Damn....

beat me to it.

[Hestia]

45. Nailed it! :)

[meow2u3]

65. I was thinking the same thing

Good riddance to bad rubbish. One less gender traitor to deal with!

[Lifelong Protester]

100. I like your words "gender traitor"

that she was. I could not stand her and her fight with the ERA.

[3catwoman3]

111. He opposition to the ERA seemed...

...especially hypocritical seeing as she had a bachelor's degree, master's degree, AND law degree. Did she get them just for the fun of it?

[2naSalit]

109. And not a damned

moment too soon! In fact, long overdue!

[2naSalit]

110. Feels like Ive been

waiting for this for hundreds of years!

[OldRedneck]

7. I would like to go piss on her grave

But I don't like standing in line.

[meow2u3]

67. I don't want to piss on her grave, either

I'd have to drop my pants and I could end up arrested for indecent exposure.

[Freddie]

123. I'd drop my pants

And do something besides piss on her grave.

[Enrique]

9. Gloria Steinem won

and i expect to hear gracious comments from her despite their differences.

[backscatter712]

11. Breaking: Exclusive pictures of the scene!

[8 track mind]

57. perfectly good waste of awesome pumps.... n/t

[backscatter712]

64. But Dorothy got em! n/t

[8 track mind]

68. this is true...... N/T

[MANative]

12. I keep splits of champagne on hand for moments like this.

Don't even care if anyone thinks me unkind.

[FailureToCommunicate]

88. I admire your outlook...and your foresight!

Remember this old print ad for Freixenet champaign, "Social Security"?

[MANative]

92. LOL! My inspiration!

One never knows what event will prompt a celebration.

[JudyM]

124. I went out with a friend for a drink when Scalia died. Nothing wrong with celebrating the demise

of someone who hurts humanity and the planet.

[3catwoman3]

13. With a nod to Clarence Darrow -

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

I totally agree with your final statement - Too bad she couldn't live long enough to see her worst nightmare come true, a woman for President.

[Starry Messenger]

17. Love that Darrow quote.

It is a fine citation for this occasion.

[3catwoman3]

26. It was quite apropos...

...for Scalia as well.

I can think of several others.

[moonscape]

53. Not sure why Dick Cheney is dancing around in my head ...

[SoCalNative]

14. Good riddance

to bad rubbish. Hope she has thermal protection for where she's going.

[Freddie]

34. She's having a hot drink with Tony Scalia now

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Just got a WaPo breaking banner on this

Wow. Maybe a sign....

[Kennah]

16. Bye Felicia (n/t)

[alp227]

18. An actual quote from one of her sons...

http://blog.singularvalues.com/2016/09/democrats-started-demographic-war.html

Over the past couple of decades, the Democrat Party has increasing on crude identity politics for votes. They get their votes by identity appeals to non-whites, non-Christians, and low-info voters.

I have posted about this many times, long before Trump announced that he was running for President.

With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democrats do not even hide it anymore. They celebrate blacks killing white cops. Clinton even talks openly about White Genocide, as if it were a good thing.

Can you believe he actually has a PhD in math from UC Berkeley?

[Starry Messenger]

20. I believe it.

Unfortunately being in STEM or smart doesn't necessarily translate to advanced social views. (Shockley was a eugenicist, after all.)

[Lucky Luciano]

36. Yup - Robert Mercer is someone whose intellect I admire greatly...but...

He is a lunatic.

[Lucky Luciano]

35. I think cohomology or something like it melted his brain.

His writing is...poor. You could even wonder if English is his first language.

[alp227]

60. Ironic for someone who champions English-only policies

and limited immigration! I'm not kidding:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roger_Schlafly#He_really_said_that

[paleotn]

40. Now that's on hell of a case of...

projection.

[demigoddess]

63. sounds like republican word salad to me.

[Happyhippychick]

19. How symbolic!

[Recursion]

21. Apparently 2016 can work for both good and evil

Who knew?

[bluestateguy]

22. YYYYYEESSSSSSSS!!!!! One less vote for Trump in November!!!

Horribe, racist human being! Good riddance!


I'm going out for ice cream.

[IrishEyes]

70. I feel sorry for somebody with that much hate in her body.

My father knew her when they were in law school. It would have been fun to see her reaction when Hillary is elected. According to Wikipedia, she lived in Missouri so that is one less vote for Trump in Missouri.

[Feeling the Bern]

24. Good riddance, you witch. I hope there is a Hell and you burn there, hypocritical harpie!

[MurrayDelph]

25. To paraphrase the late great Jackie "Moms" Mabley

(paraphrasing to change the gender):

"They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. She's dead. Good!"

[calimary]

39. That's an old Bette Davis line, too.

"My mother told me never to say bad things about the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

[yeoman6987]

27. RIP

I won't say more because conservatives will use it as an excuse the next liberal who dies.

[Kingofalldems]

41. They already do.

I am absolutely sure you have heard of Rush Limbaugh.

[wysi]

28. Gee that's a shame

Not.

[JunkYardDogg]

29. Looks like God didn't save the Queen...of Hate

As a militant Atheist, I say : "Thank You Jesus"

[OldRedneck]

30. The Washington Post is reporting her death . . .

. . . and the comments are BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And she deserves every bit of it.

[Starry Messenger]

37. Twitter is also on fire.

I'm a bad person, but I'm refreshing the feed a lot.

[SusanCalvin]

80. Good. Thanks for the info. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

31. She croaked, just two months before her party.

She was ahead of the curve.

[AwakeAtLast]

101. A true Conservative Leader!

[calimary]

38. Aha! That's why I started smelling a whiff of sulfur.

She made quite a career out of denouncing, and rabble-rousing against, other women for pursuing careers.

There's one less vote for Trump! GOOD.

She won't be missed.

[llmart]

42. Hate filled human being....

I always wonder why they get to live that long?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. Good. What took you so long?

Well, I'll give her this much: she'll be easy for the worms to digest; she's already rotten.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. My first campaign was for the ERA....

So:

[joeybee12]

46. Per Moms Mabley, say something good about the dead

She's dead and that's good

[Raine]

47. Aw too bad...

NOT!

[TeamPooka]

48. If Albright is right about there being a special place in hell for women who don't support other

women then Phyllis Schlafly is already there.

[arithia]

49. and nothing of value was lost n/t

[sarge43]

50. Good riddance

[longship]

52. Death, or Chichi?

When Phyllis Schlafly gets to Hell, she will be given a choice. Death, or Chichi.

The guy next to Phyllis chooses Chichi, whereupon he is stuffed into a barrel, raped by rabid monkeys, set on fire, and rolled down a steep hill into a river of boiling shit.

Then, the devil will offer Phyllis the same choice. Death, or Chichi.

Seeing how bad Chichi is, Phyllis chooses death, whereupon the devil responds, "Death it is. But first... Chichi!"

Homage to Marc and Mark and Morning Sedition and especially Milf Cardinal Milfington and his Rapture Watch, often featured therein. And especially to Jim Earl, who channelled the Cardinal.

IMHO, Chichi is too good for her.

[SusanCalvin]

78. Is that the joke from Working Girl?

I thought Sigourney Weaver said Kiki, but it would make sense, and I never got it until now.

[Brickbat]

54. Pretty sure she lived on pure hate for a long time.

[47of74]

55. I'm going to take the high road and just say rest in peace.

Ya know, treat them the way we would want to be treated even if they don't reciprocate.

[Demonaut]

56. may she rest in piece

s

cut off her head lest she comes back

[Nay]

58. I just cracked open two beers for me and Mr Nay. I have despised that woman

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since I was in college in the 70's.

[jmowreader]

87. Was it Schlafly beer?

http://schlafly.com/about-us/

[Nay]

89. Nope - Michelob Ultra!

[jmowreader]

93. Don't ya think that's a little too good to celebrate the demise of that woman?

In the 1970s the company that made Lucky Lager (a fine Budweiser-quality cheap beer loved by Northwest teenagers because it'd get ya fucked up cheap) decided to join the Generics craze by selling generic beer. It came in plain white cans with the word BEER printed on them in big letters, and it was apparently just Lucky Lager in a plain white can.

Anyway, BEER and Phillies Blunts while watching porn would be the perfect way to celebrate the untimely (as in it came 60 years too late) demise of a harridan who despised sex, drinking and smoking.

[PlanetBev]

59. Been waiting for this day a long time

What gladsome news this day brings! I'm gonna knock off a frosty one tonight in celebration.

[m-lekktor]

61. She was the MAIN reason the EquaL Rights Amendment for women

NEVER passed. She was not a good person (to put it mildly) Every so often when she would appear in the news it seemed like more than a few people would ask, "is she STILL alive?" snicker...

[Lunabell]

62. I can't help myself.

All I can think of is, " Ding dong the wicked witch is dead. " I am ashamed.

[Chicago1980]

66. I might possibly go to hell for this, but...

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[PatSeg]

69. Every time I see Phylis Schlafy's name

in the news, my reaction is, "She's still alive?" Except for this time of course.

Well, I'm sure someone, somewhere will miss her.

[AngryAmish]

71. I would like to have a contest.

Who can have the ugliest comment about a recently deceased woman?

Whoever wins I will send a dozen Titlist Pro V 2s.

[Starry Messenger]

79. Breitbart has a sad obit on her over on their site if that's more your thing.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

108. She did a lot of damage to a lot of people -

and our country. Some people deserve the ire. I, for one, will dance and celebrate when Cheney finally drops dead.

[SusanCalvin]

72. Good.

My condolences to family, but I can't imagine any decent person who wasn't compelled by family ties doing anything but cheering.

[Boldine]

73. Well, God did want one of his best "messengers" to come to him

so He could press the down button for her.

[weissmam]

74. by by

don't let the door hit you in the rear on the way out

[mountain grammy]

75. She'll not be missed.. by me anyway.

[left-of-center2012]

76. My mother always said ...

"If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all."

So I'll say:

[Frank Cannon]

77. Since that old evil witch didn't have a heart...

I guess the whole staking thing is out of the question, and we'll have to resort to cutting off her head and stuffing her mouth with garlic.

[backscatter712]

81. I predict a huge turnout at the funeral...

...by those wanting to make sure she's actually dead!

[erpowers]

82. My Thought Go Out To Her Family

My thought and sympathy go out to her family. They have lost a family and I hope they will find peace during this time.

[mwrguy]

83. I'll have a coke.

[Tempest]

84. It's a shame really

That she didn't live long enough to see her worst nightmare.

A woman elected president.

[cheapdate]

85. "Drive a stake through her heart to be sure."

- Bruce Bartlett (from Facebook.)

[deurbano]

86. "Too bad she couldn't live long enough to see her worst nightmare come true, a woman for President."

And especially... THIS woman for president. (My late dad and step-father-in-law will both be spinning in their graves along with Schlafly on Nov. 8th.)

[TonyPDX]

90. Best news I've heard since Scalia kicked.

What a miserable excuse for a human being. The world's a better place without her.

[Marthe48]

91. As soon as I heard of this woman in the early 70's

I knew I did not want to be like her. Ever.

[bravenak]

94. Bye, Felicia!

[SpankMe]

95. Well, someone's going to miss her.

Not me. But someone.

[Zambero]

97. Too mean to die young

Rest with the rest.

[Monk06]

99. She left the world a better place.....once she was gone from it Now a for a large Finlandia Martini

After my martini I'll have to go out and buy a wooden stake and a bag of rock salt and garlic Lot's of garlic

[radical noodle]

102. I guess it wasn't nice that my first thought was

HOT DAMN! If she was a good person in any way I sure missed it.

[Lifelong Protester]

103. I might have to have another glass of wine....

[baldguy]

104. .

.

[Maeve]

105. Nothing but good of the dead. She's dead. Good. eom

[Jamaal510]

106. I offer condolences

to PS's loved ones and I'd never celebrate anyone's death. With that said, may the racist, sexist, and homophobic agenda that she shared with her RW peers also continue to weaken and rot.

[WhiteTara]

107. I samba, rhumba, pirourrette

dancing for humanity.

[lastlib]

112. Did she die, or just nasty away?

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I'm inclined to think it's the latter.........Would somebody please just mop her up and burn the mop?

(Damn, I STILL miss those penguins.....!)*

*Story in February the same day Scalia died: 150,000 penguins died in Antarctica because an iceberg grounding blocked them from their feeding grounds. Missed those penguins then, still miss 'em now.

[Solly Mack]

113. Hate finally withered her away.

[JohnnyRingo]

114. Her funeral shouldn't be as elaborate as a man's

No one should disrespect her wishes by treating her as a first class citizen. She is after all, a woman.

[Solly Mack]

115. That would be in keeping with her views on women.

Maybe simply dump her in a ditch somewhere, so the menfolk can get back to being men.

[PatrickforO]

116. She ruined a lot of lives with her social conservative bullshit.

RIP, Phyllis.

[trusty elf]

117. I looked at that headline

and thought it said "Longtime Conservative Loon".

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[Paladin]

118. Evil old thing. (nt)

[malthaussen]

119. Had to happen sometime. n/t

[GOLGO 13]

120. And nothing of value was lost.

[whatthehey]

121. I'm glad DU seems to have finally gotten over its childish superstition

Up until now every time a RW villain has snuffed it there have been hordes of sententious scolds berating people here to lie about how we felt about the fucking corpse when it was alive. They never put it that way of course, but even dressed up in sanctimonious bullshit about "class" or "manners" or "sparing the family's feelings", that's what they are really saying. People must be hypocritical liars about the vile and loathsome once their heart rate hits zero, for some never-defended made-up reason or other. The recipient of this sycophancy obviously neither knows nor cares, being dead. Their nearest and dearest are hardly likely to be scouring obscure internet forums dedicated to diametrically opposing political views in search of comfort and support, and if they are so monumentally idiotic, "sparing their feelings" in a few patently false platitudes will achieve nothing valuable.

If you speak ill of the living, why on earth worry about speaking ill of the dead? Schlafly was nowhere near as evil and powerful as Scalia, the last rotting carcass we were supposed to dishonestly fawn over instead of joyously pissing on like he deserved. Hadn't spared her a thought in many many years. Frankly can't really care enough to celebrate other than to gladly acknowledge the loss of one more decrepit dying demographic's vote for the cheeto-stained baboon. But it is, sincerely, good to see that either all the contrived pretentious moralist-wannabes have scampered off to the Hillary hate sites, or that they have finally encountered a corpse that, for whatever reason, they find worthy of being honest toward.

[Starry Messenger]

125. I completely agree, btw.

I almost hesitated to post this story, in spite of its historical significance, because I wasn't sure I could bear a lot of moralizing about her passing.

Some people have been enemies of progress for generations, and marking the fact that their ability to actively harm our movement is ended should be at least acceptable.

[Sand Rat Expat]

129. To be honest, I find the celebration distasteful.

There are loads of people whose politics I disagree with, but I don't wish for any of them to come to harm. There are loads of people I frankly loathe, but I don't wish them dead, nor will I celebrate if I'm still upright and sniffing the air when they pass away. Disagreeing with my politics isn't enough to make me wish someone dead, or celebrate their death.

I wouldn't have posted on this thread at all if your post weren't here. I think what I find most distasteful about this whole display is that the next time a progressive icon dies, the thread about their death here on DU will be filled with people condemning the "hate-filled" right-wingers and their grave-dancing. Don't engage in a behavior and then castigate the other side for doing the same. That's just rank hypocrisy, and I find that extremely distasteful no matter who's engaging in it.

A lot of digital ink is spilled discussing how much "better" we progressives are as people, and yet I see my fellow progressives engaging in the same hateful behavior as those they condemn. Yeah, not taking part in that, and I'll call it what it is: hypocrisy.

[Warren Stupidity]

130. I was working in Lobdon when Thatcher croaked.

They had a good riddance cake and party at the office.

[GOLGO 13]

131. Well said. Not even going to wait for the corpse to grow cold before the dancing began

[treestar]

122. So true. I would have given this awful person another year

to make sure she saw that happen.

[Mike Nelson]

126. Sorry...

...she didn't live to see a female US President.

[Kali]

127. ah this kind of thread is where I miss a certain less-than-bright "heavenly" troll

she would be flipping out at the mean talk of the right wing spirit being.

[tonyt53]

128. As with Scalia, grass will never grow on the grass. The ground will be too toxic.

[Zen Democrat]

132. Is she really really dead?