[red meat conservative]

Here is what I don’t understand. Assuming all of these “conservative” pundits, columnsists, and figures who are attacking Palin are really conservative then why the hell would you air it in public. Even if I believed that Palin was wrong (which I don’t) I would never air my frustrations with her so all of the leftist scum could lop it up. Why the hell would any conservative want to be quoted by the enemy as siding with them? This is what I don’t understand about Erick Erickson of redstate.com. Are you proud of yourself that you are quoted in the Washington Compost as siding against the person who makes the liberals shake in their panties?

[Antoninus]

Why the hell would any conservative want to be quoted by the enemy as siding with them? This is what I don’t understand about Erick Erickson of redstate.com. Are you proud of yourself that you are quoted in the Washington Compost as siding against the person who makes the liberals shake in their panties?

Sadly, the answer for most of these crumb-bums is "yes". Many media conservatives are more media than conservative (Hannity, Hewitt prime examples). Similarly, most of these beltway conservatives are more beltway than conservative.

It took the 2008 election and the rise of Sarah Palin to smoke 'em out.