[Paul Ross]

You just gotta love Steyn, especially when he correctly dissects one of the fundamental flaw in the RINOs:

Yet you don't have to be anti-abortion or unenthusiastic about gay marriage to question the hardness of Arnold's ass. When candidates run as "fiscally conservative but socially liberal", the former invariably buckles under the attendant costs of the latter. Arnold is married to Maria Shriver - a niece of Jack, Bobby and Ted Kennedy, and a daughter of George McGovern's running mate - and, as in many mixed marriages, the Democrat seems to have the upper hand ideologically.

I suspect that the Republicans who routinely cave to the RAT spouses because they, being fiscally prudent, have calculated that their politics is not worth the cost of divorce...whereas for RATS, they'll go for broke every time. After all, in their mental universe, the government will bail them out.

[torchthemummy]

"If it's beating up a pre-op transsexual hooker, you're in business."

Stellar, stellar!!! Like a great comic, Steyn realizes that "transexual hooker", although right on in the context of the point being made, is all that much funnier with the qualifier "pre-op" tagged at the front to totally spoof the liberal ideal of supposed victimization before the actual victimization has been brought to it's fruition.