Updates from Planet K-Lo
November 19th, 2008 by Nick Saint
Quite a neat trick for a Republican these days:
Despite a protest or two, John Boehner was just voted majority leader again. Good luck to the guys and gals in the house. This will be a tough time for some real opportunities to show leadership.
Phottogaffe aside, I’m pretty sure this would have provoked more than a protest or two. Perhaps Ms. Lopez was reporting what would have happened in a world in which Sarah Palin - whom “Thomas Jefferson would be proud to meet” - had been at the top of the ticket.
We haven’t said anything about David Frum’s departure from NR here, since we have been pretty consistently clear about what we think of that outfit. Along with the departure of Christopher Buckley and Kathleen Parker, this move has prompted a lot of rumbling about the demise of the National Review.
Sure, it’s getting worse, but this seems a bit arbitrary to me. Taken as a whole, it had long since lost any claim to seriousness, but even now, there are still a few people who are intelligent and honest, even if they tend to scare me (think Jim Manzi). So it’s getting a little worse, but, like, whatever.
It does seem to me though, that there will be more and more of a shift from dishonest partisans to people like K-Lo who are actually this stupid, which could undermine the value of NR to the Republican Party. If you nominate Sarah Palin to be your VP candidate, it’s good to have people in the media who will lie and say they think she is a terrific choice. It’s much less good to have idiots who actually believe that pushing her 2012 candidacy, as she is an unelectable joke.
