In addition to being a rabid conservative, she also hated women, confirming that what drives conservatives to fundamentalist religious fanaticism is their self-hate. Even other Republicans sometimes seem to think she wasn't very good. A Republican housewife living right next door to frightful Phyllis once said she was the type who appeals to emotion and doesn’t bother about facts. "(…) an exponent of an extreme right-wing philosophy — a propagandist who deals in emotion and personalities where it is not necessary to establish facts or prove charges."