pollyannaish, you're right.
Mamzelle, you write very well. And you're quite the provocateur (provocateuse?).
Who are you? Ann Coulter?
Dissing Ann is one of the reasons I let my NR subscription lapse, among other reasons. They couldn't take her passion. Just too alive to be endured.
All that junk about "compassionate conservatism"--at the NR they're DISpassionate conservatives. Cold fish. As Enchiladita said today, and really caught my ear when discussing the tepid nomination of Mel Martiez to the RNC, don't they have any passion about anything?
The NR never bothered, in all their years, to lend any serious ear to the evangelicals, or religious right, or Christian Conservatives, or whatever you want to call them. They'd publish the occasional visit-to-the-zoo article about evangelicals, and even let a former convert to Catholicism from conservative Protestantism (Dreher) write a few columns. A southerner, even, imagine that.
Interesting, no?