Kathleen Parker has been sounding a
note here & there of common sense lately. She was mentioned as someone who didn't like Gov. Moosedroppings in
the story to which
we linked two days ago, and threatened w/ e-mails most foul.
Mr. Frum witnessed the upbraiding his fellow conservative, the columnist Kathleen Parker, received when she wrote in her syndicated column on the National Review’s Web site arguing that Governor Palin was unfit to be vice president. Ms. Parker received nearly 11,000 e-mail messages, one of which lamented that her mother did not abort her.
“Who says public discourse hasn’t deteriorated?” she wrote in a followup column that ran on the Web site. (National Review, as Mr. Lowry pointed out, can hardly be held responsible for a reader’s nasty e-mail messages.)
Ms. Parker, again:
[The GOP] has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners.
Short break as writer ties blindfold and smokes her last cigarette.
Which is to say, the GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle.
[...]
Suffice it to say, the Republican Party is largely comprised of white, married Christians. Anyone watching the two conventions last summer can't have missed the stark differences: One party was brimming with energy, youth and diversity; the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting.
With the exception of Miss Alaska, of course.
Even Sarah Palin has blamed Bush policies for the GOP loss. She's not entirely wrong, but she's also part of the problem. Her recent conjecture about whether to run for president in 2012 (does anyone really doubt she will?) speaks for itself:
"I'm like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.... And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it's something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."
Let's do pray that God shows Alaska's governor the door.
No you dih-n't, Kathy P., no you dih-n't!
5 comments:
Did someone slap the stupid outta pretty Kathleen?
I'd say Yes.
I never noticed it before (mainly because such speech is ubiquitous), but the Gov. talks like an 8th grader. "I'm like, okay, God......" Such a devout prayer!
P.
Pundit Pounding Editor Responds:
Or, someone beat some sense into her. We're not sure that pretty's the word, either, as Ms. Parker is always shot from a distance, w/ a cheesecloth- & Vaseline-covered lens. Or adjusted w/ digital technology.
Gov. Moosedroppings, on the other hand, is the Valley Girl on steroids. We remember in her first few media events she said, on two separate occasions, "I like to work ree-lee, ree-lee hard," as if she were applying for a job at Wal*Mart.
We can only hope she leads the religio-weasels off to the wilderness in a party of their own. They could call themselves the Christian Anti-Socialist Party, & get the country going in the correct direction. (Away from them.)
I should have put "pretty" in scare quotes.
They can have Alaska. Its beautiful, but has the advantage of being very isolated. And they can guard us, WOLVERINES!-style, from Putin's floating head.
Sexism/Looksism Editor Adds:
It's not that she isn't "pretty" w/o photographic trickery, it's just in a...riper way.
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