Have you considered contacting Kraft Foods? As dated as their giant, anthropomorphic pitcher is, they may be in the market for a new mascot for their Kool-Aid.

Yes, thank you: the view from the high horse from which (Dangling prepositions, sir, are a no-no!) I post is quite nice. A higher mount permits for greater vigilance, ever more necessary in this morally decrepit world.

(As long as I’m in a pedantic mood, I should note that “themself” is not a word; your feeble attempt to employ politically correct, gender-neutral language rather confounds me. It seems to be rather uncharacteristic of a conservative.)

More perplexing is that you assert that Mrs. Palin is a “true conservative”, but then engage in quasi-Platonic waxing that, to me, suggests that no one can be a “true conservative”. We may not be “true conservatives” here, but we do think, again, that one must be more than a pro-life “Aw, shucks” populist governor-mom to be a “high profile conservative”.

Angela, I’m not sure that Freddy every suggested that Letterman wasn’t being a jerk. That wasn’t the crux of his argument, anyhow.

I seem to recall that Obama decreed that families should be off-limits. This is why.

Palin opened the conversation up, making the issue about more than just her family.

Freddy is wrong about this: Letterman acted like the jerk that he’s always been.

I think Tod should be the Palin to visit the set. it would be interesting to see how many “slut” and “whore” jokes he could make to the face of the husband and father of the ladies Letterman deems unworthy.

A few points.

1. The calling into question of Mrs. Palin’s parenting techniques revolves not around some attempt “to defend a child”, but the shameless parading of a child through the media circus without good reason. Wholly sincere or not, Mr. Letterman apologized; the responsible, respectable thing for Palin qua mother to do, now, is to let sleeping dogs lie. That, however, stands contrary to her lowest-common-denominator “Aw, shucks” populism.

2. Palin is hardly “the only true high profile conservative”. Perhaps, suffering as you seem to, from an indescribable irascibility, you’re blinded to a few realities, but by TAC standards she’s hardly the sort of leader we seek. In your petulant, virulent attacks on Freddy, your failure to understand just what sorts of conservatism this magazine supports is quite obvious. Hardly a short-sighted, closed-minded GOP echo-chamber, TAC, endorses conservatism of a more traditional, often communitarian type, rather than the GOP’s hyper-individualism veiled with “social conservatism”.

3. Developing a sense of humor, or, at least, the ability to detect an attempt at humor on another’s part (presently, Freddy’s), surely would be to your benefit.