Truly funny people can make you laugh (or at least, smile) even when they offend. P.J. O'Rourke is one of those people; horrendously wrong on numerous issues, but still funny. And this week he cracked back on his own beloved "conservative" movement, big time, in the Weekly Standard, in a piece poignantly termed We Blew It (here). He writes:
Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative
opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is
gone–gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear
that's headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.
An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of
its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we
promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of
freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment,
honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy
clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet,
as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a
hill into dust and rubble.
its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we
promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of
freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment,
honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy
clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet,
as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a
hill into dust and rubble.
Gotta admire any man that brutally honest with his own people.
Kit Stolz 