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When Jonah Met Kathleen
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Read his latest. It is a classic of the genre. Fury at the alleged "self-righteousness" of others; anger that other conservatives are telling the truth about the "conservatism" he has shilled for for eight years; and then total capitulation on the substance of the argument: ...

To Kathleen Parker - The Act is Getting Old
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Jonah Goldberg tells Kathleen to “Quit It.” Maybe Parker wants another guest appearance with Bill Mahr or Colbert? ...

Kathleen Parker Takes on Reagan
Taylor Marsh — ... The 1980s or so is certainly a nice way to hide behind her real target, because no one in Republican politics can survive attacking the Gipper. Good news for us. Along with the southern strategy, which Reagan utilized to win, the religious right has brought the Grand OLD Party to a point of apocalypse. But Parker’s continued good counsel, she was the first to lower the boom on Miss Alaska, is being greeted with gasps. Thank goodness. Jonah Goldberg: ...

Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker
The Anchoress — ... what I now admit was an equally bilious response from me, which some liked and some thought a little too relentless. But I am not inclined just now to fisk Parker’s posing piece. As I read it I got an image of her at her desk, reading her prose with a crisp and fake midlantic accent recalling Katharine Hepburne, but with fluttering eyelashes, and that images sort of speaks for itself. I’m not the only one who found Parker a bit bigoted, here. Jonah Goldberg handily hands Parker her set-down: I don’t know ...

MIDDAY ROUNDUP
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — ... asserts. There is nothing wrong with making arguments that Republicans should distance themselves from religion, but implying that those who cross the line are somehow of lesser intelligence undercuts those arguments, The Corner’s Jonah Goldberg says. The problem with the GOP is not too close a relationship with God, but too close a relationship with President Bush, ...

Quote of the day
Sister Toldjah — Via National Review: I don’t know what’s more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you are for weathering a storm of nasty email you invite on yourself by dancing to a liberal tune. You aren’t special for getting nasty email, from the right or the ...

Bye-bye Kathleen Parker (who?)
Alarming News — Bye-bye Kathleen Parker (who?) Via Hot Air Headlines , Jonah Goldberg finally smacks down Kathleen Parker. Or as Kevin Williamson quoted Ann Coulter to me last night, THE Kathleen Parker who has come to prominence because she is a conservative who seemingly hates conservatives, and really hates Sarah Palin. Sorry, we already fell for this once, his name was Andrew Sullivan, and we're all done with the "no really, I'm a conservative, I just disagree with every single thing conservatives stand for and believe. What? What? I am!" I read a ton of ...

Goldberg Tellls Kathleen "Who?" Parker to Stuff It
Ace of Spades HQ — Goldberg Tellls Kathleen "Who?" Parker to Stuff It Nice. Her article, by the way, is atrocious. Not just for the predictability of it, but for the radioactive smugness at her own alleged wit and humor. She's not funny. She's cutesy , in a very self-satisfied way. Thanks to KingShamus. Posted by: Ace at ...

The obligatory “Everyone getting pretty tired of Kathleen Parker’s shtick” post
Hot Air » Top Picks — The obligatory “Everyone getting pretty tired of Kathleen Parker’s shtick” post posted at 4:15 pm on November 19, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly “Everyone” in this case being Jonah Goldberg and the amens that greeted these two shots fired from the Corner at her latest . Count me in, albeit reluctantly: If you think her martyr complex is irritating now, wait until she starts citing those posts as evidence that she’s been excommunicated, oogedy-boogedy-like, from the church of conservative ...

Kathleen Parker: Republican Party Must Get Rid Of God!
Flopping Aces — ... conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh. Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth — as long as we’re setting ourselves free — is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that. “oogedy-boogedy branch”……nice. Jonah Goldberg has some advice for you Kathleen: I don’t know ...

It Stands Athwart Kathleen Parker, Yelling STFU
If I Ran the Zoo — The battle has been joined! Conservatism fights for its very soul today over at The Corner, where first Pantload and then Human Stain set the table for K-Lo's final assault on wingnut apostate-come-lately Kathleen Parker: ...I wonder if after some time away from her e-mail and newfound attentions she'd be using some of the same words she's been using lately about many of the buyers of her book. Maybe she would. She's someone I know and love dearly but I won't ever pretend to know her or anyone's mind. But I do know she is smarter than her ...

Things You Never Think You’ll Say
I Am TRex — ... door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it’s something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.” Let’s do pray that God shows Alaska’s governor the door. Kathleen, cut it out, darlin’.  You’re fucking with my head.  You’re writing like a…a…liberal blogger. Jonah “Jellyroll” Goldberg agrees. Quit It Kathleen [Jonah Goldberg ...

All I Am Saying Is We Already Gave Keyes a Chance
damnum absque injuria — ... anybody in California, so even if there were a real case here, he would not be the proper party to bring it. This case is probably moronic on other levels, as well, but at this point my brain hurts too much to think about it any more. Free advice for this would-be has-been who is better described as a never-really-was: don’t go away mad. Or do go away mad, I don’t care. Just go away. God, I’m courageous. Not quite as courageous as Courageous George, mind you, but courageous nonetheless.

Reading Listed
AMERICAN DIGEST — Thursday, November 20 Jonah Goldberg unloads both barrels on the quisling Kathleen Parker: I don't know what's more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you are for weathering a storm of nasty email you invite on yourself by dancing to a ...

What next, again
Stubborn Facts — Brendan Miniter imagines a world without RINOs. The Senate GOP wonders whether to cut deals, get back to basics, or just jump out of the window. Now, I think that Kathleen is as wrong as Jonah thinks she is, but I think this talk of raising the drawbridge is unhelpful. I'm struggling with a head cold, so I apologize if this isn't as coherent and non-mundane as I'd like, but I offer two suggestions. First, in the coming months, let's dispense with the RINO talk. It isn't helpful, and it's exclusionary rhetoric at a time when, so far as I can tell, our ...

So How’s That Center-Right Thing Doing?
Comments from Left Field — ... The Republican Party’s image has gone from bad to worse over the past month, as only 34% of Americans in a Nov. 13-16 Gallup Poll say they have a favorable view of the party, down from 40% in mid-October. The 61% now holding an unfavorable view of the GOP is the highest Gallup has recorded for that party since the measure was established in 1992. Keep on pounding those traditional, evangelical, Christian right-wing values, guys. Clearly, it’s a winning strategy.

Conservatives Need a Bailout
Jon Swift — ... Cabs? Ha! Subway fare? Think again! How do I get to the press conference then? By foot! That’s how we operate. Calluses, fallen arches, and vibrant conservatism are the consequences” writes Jack Fowler, before losing what’s left of his dignity and concluding, “Come on, I’m begging.” Recent cost-cutting initiatives to purge conservatives from the masthead of The National Review who failed to toe the editorial line, such as David Frum, Kathleen Parker and the son of the magazine’s founder, Christopher Buckley, have apparently ...

Conservatives Need a Bailout
Shakesville — ... Cabs? Ha! Subway fare? Think again! How do I get to the press conference then? By foot! That’s how we operate. Calluses, fallen arches, and vibrant conservatism are the consequences” writes Jack Fowler, before losing what’s left of his dignity and concluding, “Come on, I’m begging.” Recent cost-cutting initiatives to purge conservatives from the masthead of The National Review who failed to toe the editorial line, such as David Frum, Kathleen Parker and the son of the magazine’s founder, Christopher Buckley, have apparently ...

Princess vs Palin, Round Two
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... a Senate seat because, well, she just does. Whatever Palin’s faults, Sarah Barracuda’s America has a lot more going for it than Sweet Caroline’s. Most pundits to the right of political center make similar arguments. But there is one glaring exception - columnist Kathleen Parker. Parker has already earned herself a reputation as a Palin-obsessed Christophobe, and even her friends have had enough of it. Her latest Townhall.com column ...