In her October 20 nationally syndicated column, author and FOX News Channel contributor Michelle Malkin attacked Women for Kerry, a “community” within the Kerry-Edwards '04 campaign that encourages voting and campaigning for Senators John Kerry and John Edwards based on the candidates's positions on issues important to women. She chastised the group, which she dubbed “Hysterical Women for Kerry,” for focusing on issues not related to the war on terror. And in the same paragraph in which Malkin accused Women for Kerry, including Kerry's sister Peggy, of trying to scare female voters, Malkin herself mentioned beheadings, kidnappings, plots to kill children, and “malefactors crossing into our borders.”

On the members of Women for Kerry

But Rosie [the Riveter] is gone. And in her place, we have Hysterical Women for Kerry. They are self-absorbed celebrities who support banning all guns (except the ones their bodyguards use to protect them and their children). They are teachers' union bigwigs who support keeping all children hostage in public schools (except their own sons and daughters who have access to the best private institutions). They are sanctimonious environmentalists who oppose ostentatious energy consumption (except for their air-conditioned Malibu mansions and Gulfstream jets and custom Escalades).

They are antiwar activists who claim to love the troops (except when they're apologizing to the terrorists trying to kill our men and women in uniform). They are peace activists who balk at your son bringing in his “Star Wars” light saber for the kindergarten Halloween parade (but who have no problem serving as human shields for torture-loving dictators). They are ultrafeminists who purport to speak for all women (but not the unborn ones or the abstinent teenage ones or the minority conservative ones or the newly enfranchised ones in Afghanistan).

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We've come a long way, baby. The wrong way. Get a grip, girls. You are an embarrassment to a nation at war.

On Kerry's sister Peggy

In battleground states, the Kerry campaign has dispatched such incoherent nervous Nellies to scare the pantyhose off of young women and moms. Kerry's sister, Peggy, landed in Ohio at a Women for Kerry rally to scare up female votes to oppose President Bush's “war against women.” At a time when Islamofascists are chopping off heads and kidnapping aid workers and plotting to kill schoolchildren, and at a time when untold numbers of malefactors are crossing into our borders, Peggy Kerry chose to whine about the alleged gender gap in white-collar salaries. “That is not fair,” she said. “Let me tell you what my brother is going to fight for -- pay equity.”

Malkin is the author of In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror.