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.
Gotta admire any man that brutally honest with his own people.