[icwhatudo]

P.J.O’Rourke joins a long list of what some Freepers used to think were conservatives.

We cheered Lindsey Graham during impeachment, yelled “you magnificent Batard to Karl Rove. I even remember wayyyyy back when Freepers loved Chris Mathews because he was the only reporter to go after democrats.

[Dr. Sivana]

And Arlen Specter was crucial to Clarence Thomas’ confirmation.

[GeronL]

I don’t PJ’O has been a conservative for a very long time, he always fit in pretty well as Rolling Stone magazine didn’t he?

[pgkdan]

I even remember wayyyyy back when Freepers loved Chris Mathews because he was the only reporter to go after democrats.

Yep. He went after Clinton so hard immediately after Lewinsky that Rush let him sit in for him a couple times.

[Wallace T.]

P.J. O’Rourke is one of a long list of formerly prominent conservative writers who have long since past their expiration dates. Peggy Noonan, Pat Buchanan, R. Emmett Tyrell, and George Will are other examples. Fighting uphill in the Washington environment leads to some compromise of principle. Then there is the aging factor. Even prominent American writers like Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken wrote their best works before late middle age. It happens on the Left as well. If Garrison Keillor was ever funny, he surely is not humorous now. His Lake Wobegone show on PBS is dreadful, although I have not listened to it since 1998 or so.

[VRW Conspirator]

Rule #3

All politicians are scoundrels until proven otherwise. After which, they must make monthly installments of proof, lest they go back to scoundrel classification.