The tough, can-do spirit of Rosie the Riveter is dead. My latest column looks at the pathetic women who took who took her place. Here’s an excerpt:

Rosie the Riveter has given way to Sally the Sniveler.

During World War II, young Rose Will Monroe was the face of American women in adversity: strong, supportive and resolute against the enemy forces that threatened our existence. Tens of thousands like Rosie rolled up their sleeves, gritted their teeth, and flexed their muscles in factories and shipyards and arsenals across the country.

They made rockets and rifles and bombs and boats. They painted and drilled and welded. When they got home to their kids, they cooked and cleaned and collapsed in bed after praying for their husbands and brothers and uncles on the battlefield. Rosie and her sisters in arms didn’t have the luxury of complaining about their lack of “me time.” There was a war to be won. And so, as this presidential campaign season has constantly reminded us, there is today.

But Rosie 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).

In battleground states, the Kerry campaign has dispatched such incoherent nervous Nellies to scare the pantyhose off of young women and moms…

I can’t imagine these Vagina Monologuists for Kerry will help change the minds of Security Moms–the real heirs to the Rosie the Riveter legacy.

Moreover, ranting ghouls will do nothing but scare away undecided men in battleground states who already have grave doubts about Kerry’s ability to shoot straight, run an honest race, and identify with regular guys.

Side note: Be sure to check out that Kerry cheesesteak-eating video. Far more damning, in my Philly-born opinion, than the Breck video. It’s a hysterical visual memento of the Prissy Ticket. Boneheaded Kerry ordered Swiss Cheese on his Philly cheesesteak. Guess they were out of Camembert?!? Do you think he has ever heard of Cheez Whiz? Probably not. It’s made by Kraft Foods, not Heinz…