[RexBeach]

I don’t know why Kathleen would do this. She is a lovely and smart person.

I am very disappointed in her.

[presidio9]

My prediction is that her career as someone that Conservatives take seriously is over. She’ll resurface writing for Slate or as a house negro on MSNBC.

[OKIEDOC]

Disappointment in Parker, same here.

[carmody]

Publicity?

[devere]

“I don’t know why Kathleen would do this. She is a lovely and smart person.”

Compared to who?

I hear Eva Braun was a lovely person also, but she had lousy taste in men.

[GipperGal]

I've always considered Parker a lightweight. Her columns read like conservative boiler plate -- nothing deep or uniquely insightful. I've found drive-by FReeper comments more insightful (and certainly more amusing) than anything Parker has ever written. The best indicator of my admiration for a writer is how often I've forwarded one of their columns to a friend. I've never forwarded anything written by Parker.

Compared to the literary eloquence of a Peggy Noonan or the Mencken-esque wit of an Ann Coulter, Kathleen Parker is just stale. Her Palin column, which I disagreed with, was probably the most interesting thing she's ever written simply because of the response it generated. She should now sink back into her blah, blah, blah boiler plate.