[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Who's Jonathon Martin?

[Mamzelle]

He's a writer on NRO, known for being a writer on NRO--their masthead is made up of fragile urban conservatives of the blueblood tradition. Probably Ivy League with a red bowtie.

Before the election, the NRO had CATO expressing its distress at the social conservatives. Now, post election, we're once again the rube in the room.

And Polly--I've follwed NR for decades, all through the Buckley years when it was a largely lachrymose publication, but the only game in town. The religious right took the GOP from being "principled", idle, moribund, tea-sipping losers to being the vigorous Reagan party in power--and the NE purebreds never got over the embarrassment.

This Martin stuff is in a long line of NR's sterile expressions of distress over having to deal with a rural Protestant tradition.