The mess the GOP is in is precisely the result of following the advice of halfwits like Parker. Does she think the “far right” are responsible for the No Child Left Behind Act, the prescription drug bill, the Iraq War, and the Wall Street bailout? I would submit that Kathleen would have a pretty damn hard time making that case. That bimbo must be suffering from delusions of adequacy. My guess is that her phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from MSM and Hollywood types praising her for her “insights” about Palin, and stoking her obviously overblown ego. She'll end up like Arianna Huffington, I suppose. Well, good riddance, toots, you were an affirmative action hire in the first place, so your departure will be no great loss.
Is there anything more disgusting than the sight of these spineless poltroons pushing everyone else out of the way on their way to the exits of a room they think is on fire? Yes indeed there is, when the arsonists are the people doing the shoving. Conservatism is going to be just fine -- even better -- after all the Kathleen Parker types have bailed. She can join Christo, David Brooks, and blast from the past Gary Wills in the obscurity she so richly deserves.
Nice post.
Your reply hits the nail on the head. When I read her babble, I saw a girl trying to justify her transgression, and resorting to the liberal technique of flat out lying - by blaming the poop in her own nest, on the people who warned her she wouldn’t like the smell. It is a mix of denial and projection, and a very fundamental liberal defense mechanism. Of course defense mechanisms used to be the way we overcame our weaknesses to remain in respectable society. Liberalism has turned this on its head and made quality defects a notion of pride and something to trumpet to the group - wave that freak flag, as it goes.
Unfortunately, since liberalism is the dominant culture in our civilization, she will receive ample superficial rewards for jumping onto the freak bus. As a conservative knows, often her type of deal is one with the devil and she cannot serve two masters.
It is sad, and too commonplace today, to see promising servants become disciples of this world, rather than eternity.
This is why I cringed when Bush used this phrase in his first run for the presidency (he didn't use it the second time around because conservatives didn't want to hear it anymore). Real conservatives knew what "compassionate conservatism" truly meant - it was simply re-packaged moderatism, i.e. liberal Republicanism. Bush is a moderate, not a conservative, with most of his domestic agenda being proof of this fact.
If the GOP loses this election, the loss will sit squarely on the shoulders of the elitist moderates in the party. McCain is no conservative, either, at least not enough to be able to call himself one. He is instead nearly the perfect moderate candidate, one who has mostly been unable to articulate a vision of what he truly stands for. Parker and Buckley should love this guy since he is one of them. They are not conservatives.