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Letter of the Week
BEST LINES ON LIPSTICK
You're not wrong about much, but you are wrong about the "all-time greatest lipstick line in popular song." That distinction surely goes to the opening of George Jones' "A Good Year for the Roses" which might describe Mr. Obama's feelings of loss and regret as he sees his advantage among women voters dissipate
"I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lyin' cold the way you left 'em, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed.
Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink
But at least you thought you wanted it, that's so much more than I can say for me."
Good to have you back.
Neil Bullock
Re: Two thumbs up
DATING WHILE YOU WORK
I read this part of your exerpt from Linda Grant and my jaw dropped...
"With the small-town Republican mindset in charge, the rest of America and the rest of the world is forced to live by small-town values, which aren't much help when you're trying to decide what, if anything, can be done about Iranian nuclear ambitions or more humbly, workplace date rape."
I take it Ms Grant has never heard of Juanita Broderick? Small town conservatives know exactly what to do about workplace date rape - we vote to keep the poster boy for it out of the White House. Is the left really so clueless as to think this is an issue they can use? We can argue relative merits of soft power/hard power approaches to Iran's nuclear ambition and a wide variety of other issues, but is the one free grope rule something they really want to have come up in the debate?
Keep up the good work,
Andy
DIDN’T WORK SO WELL FOR MONICA
Is this what happens when you date people with whom you work? Does it occur in the workplace or on dates? Or do the dates actually happen in the workplace? I don't imagine much work gets done if everyone is trying to go on dates in the workplace.
Seems to me that Clinton popularized the whole dating at work thing. Didn't work out so well for him. Or Monica.
Melissa Davis
MEDIA MORONS
Thanks for sharing some of the more skanky commentary on Palin's nomination: I treasure every syllable. As a particularly uneducated white male, I feel John McCain had me in mind when he nominated Palin, so every vicious assault on a wonderful woman reminds me, as Jesse Jackson encourages me to believe, that "I am SOMEbody!"
Our elitist media (honorable mention here to David Frum) provide a reminder that certain friends alleviate the need for enemies. If any of these media dunderheads worked for the DNC, Howard Dean would have fired them by now. "Let's diss hockey moms!" "No, let's diss soccer moms!" "No, let's diss women in general!" "Let's diss small towns, people who devote their evenings to PTA meetings, hunters, gun owners, Alaskans!" "Let's diss special needs kids!" But poor Howard can't fire them, he can't advise them and he can't control them, so all he can do is sit with his hands folded while they drive the Democrats' experiment in participatory busing right off the cliff.
It must be particularly galling for poor Howard that these morons are in the tank...for HIM. Every time Sean Hannity points out that the left-wing media in this country have abandoned all journalistic standards in order to get Obama elected, he must groan under his breath and say to himself, "Unfortunately."
Ezra Marsh
Baltimore
ENEMY ENDORSEMENTS
As Sarah said about Harry Reid's "can't stand John McCain" being the best endorsement possible, I cannot think of better endorsements than irrelevant Canadian and snotty Euro-lib women also hating her. She is getting more perfect by the minute!
Bryan P Jones
A NATION OF HOOLIGANS
I love to point out to those sophisticated English types that hate America with all their hearts that England, for all it's upper class Oxford types, is a hooligan country. People from the Midwest, I am from Ohio but now live in New York City, are likely to be more educated, better looking, a better socially aware than say your average Millwall Bushwacker.
Not to say I don't like the English. I have friends from London to the Lakes District. It is funny how much they really hate filled even the sophisticates have become.
Thanks!
Michael Grubbs
Re: Moose blarney
and O’bama watch
FAIREST COLLEENS THAT EVER I’VE SEEN
First off, YOU are da' man. Principled AND funny.
Secondly, my one visit to the Republic in March 2006 had 2 surprises, one good, one bad; 1) how integrated, economically and politically into the EU the Republic had become (BAD); 2) how many very attractive Irishwomen are seen on the street (GOOD).
Nicholas Kamillatos
New York, N.Y
O'STEYN EH?
Mr. O'Steyn,
Irish, huh? Get about yer business of picking out Rick Brookhiser's eyes, harpy.
Potato gulping regards,
Mike McDonald
New Hartford, NY via Cong County Mayo
MOOSE ON THE LOOSE
You wrote on the Corner:
“Our pal Jay Nordlinger was on Irish radio yesterday, and several callers objected to Sarah Palin on the following grounds:
‘The woman shoots moose, as did Teddy Roosevelt, a long time ago. Only in TR's day, there were many more moose - Sarah endangers a species.’
“Absolutely backwards, but an interesting example of how the progressive mind prefers to obsess on entirely fictional crises.There were far fewer moose in Teddy's day. Today there are more moose than a century ago, in Alaska, Canada, New England. In New Hampshire in the mid-19th century there were fewer than 15 in the whole state. Now NH sees more than 250 killed every year just in highway collisions – before Sarah even has a chance to load. We are awash in moose. We have a moose surplus.”
Hmmmmm, led me to write this in response...
Ah, good point. And to be very explicit, a moosesurplus is BAD. For the earth.
Because moose cause global warming. The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
Assuming that the moose in Alaska emits as much greenhouse gas as the moose in Norway (and let's face it, surely American moose are much less likely to be climate change conscious than their more enlightened European counterparts), then Sarah Palin is on the front lines of combating global warming by killing moose - assuming that she isn't driving more than 8,000 miles to bag the moose.
Sarah Palin, Saving The Earth One Kill At A Time.
May your aim be true and your bag limits be reached.
Jeff Dobbs
DEER CAN BE DEADLY
We get the same crap about deer in Florida. There are at least 2x as many deer in Florida now than when Columbus discovered the place....what animal kills more people in the world by far...deer....comparing deer with Great Whites , snakes bears and other animals doesn't even come close. Dogs are way behind deer in second place..
“onriverfl”
MOOSE ARE OUT WEST ...
You omitted Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho from your list of states with a Moose comeback.
It's all part of a trend towards increasing wildlife populations due to reforestation and more awareness of how to live with the animals. Hell, when I lived in Duluth Minnesota, our home was in a subdivision 6 blocks from the mall - and we had a 200 pound or so black bear that wandered the neighborhood - and no one got too excited, because we all knew how to respect it. We had a herd of deer that bedded down in the back of our lot - and a litter of fox kits raised back there as well. Seeing wolves when hiking was considered a GOOD thing - most thought of them as just big feral dogs - less aggressive than the wild domestic variety, in fact.
George H. Avery
Purdue Department of Health and Kinesiology
West Lafayette, Indiana
…DOWN EAST
There are moose in Connecticut for crying out loud, what's next moose in Central Park?
BTW, I found your twin or perhaps an ancestor:
David A. Hoffman
West Hartford, Connecticut
.. AND ON THE HIGHWAY IN VERMONT
Good recipe website: You'll note its advice: "Always Marinate Moose in Buttermilk for one
day"
Moose collisions in VT page:
Jack
IRISH I’M NOT AND NEVER HAVE BEEN
Just a quick note in regards to your "Corner" post on the moosey Irish women - soon they'll be an endangered species themselves. Thanks to all the hot Polish women who have made their way to Ireland in the last few years, we should see a significant decrease in moosey-ness in the coming generation(s).
Check out the population increase.
It's not all bad demographics news in Europe after all.
Bern Sheehan
Palos Park, Illinois
IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL UNIFORM…
Having spent a few weeks this spring in Dublin, I can assure you that Dublin's women are far from moosey. For some reason, however, the absolutely prettiest women in the city were the fair number of female Garda officers (local police patrols). I'm not normally a pushover for women in uniform, but DAY-UM!
Joe Auchter
BLARNEY?
Be careful, the last guy who falsely claimed to be Irish was John Kerry.
Mark Feldman
THE LOVE OF THE IRISH
I am not sure what station Jay was on, but my relatives from Galway to Cavan to Dublin (I think we may have even heard from the cousin in Sligo but no one likes to talk to that part of the family) have been calling us and telling us how excited they are about Sarah
Patrick Cottell
MEDIA MOOSEHEADS
I agree with your Irish correspondents, the media here in the UK is so blatantly dismissive of McCain and Palin and so deeply in love with the idea of Obama that he could have actually chosen a moose as his running mate and the BBCama would have described it as a stroke of brilliance. The worry for the chattering liberal metrosexual class is whether those ghastly simple American country folk will vote for a black man. My stock answer these days is, “If you had a vote in this election, which you don't, and Obama was a white man, would you vote for him?” The reply is invarably, “Er, I don't know.” Why would anyone trust the leadership of the free world to a man with no experience? Supporting a candidate because he's black is a form of racism. Scoffing at Governor Palin because she s a mother of five, from a small town in the middle of nowhere etc etc is just pathetic. She probably knows more about energy politics than pretty much anyone on the planet, and more about real life than Obama, but maybe not as much about the Harvard Law
Review...Yawn...
Adrian
London
LIFE AT THE LAW REVIEW
"I would rather be governed by the first 500* names in the Wasilla, AK phone book than by the editors of The Harvard Law Review." (Re: An old line rings new).
I couldn't agree more. While I never have been to Alaska, I was an editor of the Harvard Law Review (overlapping His Eminence himself for a short time). All I can say is it's hard to imagine how the good citizens of Wasilla (including the children) could be less mature or more lacking in judgment than that self-revering collection of resume builders. I came to Harvard a Democrat; having the experience of being governed, literally, by the editors of the Law Review, I haven't voted for their ilk again.
Joe S
Toronto
WHY PLEASE THE WEENIES?
Your emailer noted that "When Obama says he'll 'restore America's reputation' what it really means is that people who hate America will be delighted by his election." They may be delighted, but that doesn't mean that the America-haters will suddenly love America. Restoring our reputation will only move us from being the nation European intellectuals loathe to our more traditional role as the nation they merely hate. I think we reached a high point of being just disagreeable to Euro-weenies when Bill Clinton was caught cheating, and was thus vaguely akin to European heads-of-state, but if that doesn't demonstrate how backwards the scale is, nothing will.
James Wester
Dallas, Texas
Re: Metrocon alert
UPSCALE BUT UNALIENATED
Nice to see you poke your head out these last few days. I totally agree with your
"fraternal correction" of David Frum. I was rather put off by the whole "country-club" tone of his post. As for his fears about alienating "educated white voters," here's one multi-degreed lawyer who is quite charmed and enthused about Sarah Palin. Although I suppose being a devout Catholic of Italian descent living in central Ohio disqualifies me as a member that demographic. Good luck as you fight off the Canadian Ministry of Truth. It is very sad about what is happening in Canada. I grew up in western New York and always regarded Canada as one regards his favorite cousin. (Honeymooned in Quebec City.) Looking forward to reading your "global content" when you come back out of hibernation.
Steve Cianca
THE REAGAN FACTOR
"The Palin choice will intensify GOP support among downscale white voters - while adding to the GOP's difficulties among more educated white voters."
Isn't that what they used to say about Reagan, that he appealed to "downscale white voters"? I believe that's how we ended up with Reagan democrats and solidified the south and changed the world. Perhaps Palin can do the same. At any rate I would camp her out in the close swing states in heartland.
I should qualify this by saying I am one of the "downscale white voters" that was about to sit this election out. I won't do that now.
Tod and Carol Wilson
UPSCALE GUY WITH A DOWNSCALE VOTE
I'm curious, and thought that you could perhaps prod Mr. Frum into articulating the criteria for "downscale". I think I have a firm grasp on the "white" part. Although I am college educated, live in a nice house, free of pick-up trucks and lawn ornaments, I must indeed be "downscale", as I have been "energized" by Mrs. Palin. I
had planned on voting for McCain as a purely defensive exercise. I now have renewed hope in the ticket, as well as the immediate future of the GOP.
David Gampfer
FROM PAUL TO PALIN
I was a Ron Paul supporter with little enthusiasm for McCain - until Palin.
I was once a "downscale" white person, the son of a Teamster. I'm now an "educated white voter" and will be casting my vote for Palin in November.
Frum is an idiot.
Jerry Cline
Patriot
Hudson, Ohio
POUILLY-FUME DRINKERS FOR PALIN
As one of several (hundred/dozen/remaining) registered Republicans in the city of Boston I know a lot of (perhaps all of the) people who voted for Bush at least twice and know the difference between Riesling and Viognier and consider $200 jeans to be casual clothing. By 11:30 last night every last one of them was delighted. Yes, she comes from a different end of the life experience spectrum than us. So? The difference between us and all our liberal friends and neighbors is that while we simply can't imagine being forced to live in a place like Abilene, we are entirely at peace with the folks there who shudder at the thought of living on Beacon Hill. We may not cling to guns or religion but we're quite comfortable with those who do - though let's be clear, sometimes the food is pretty bad.
CWK
DIG WHERE YOU’RE COMING FRUM
Loved, loved, loved your rebuke of Frum!!
James Ford
MY KIND OF FEMINIST
I wouldn't be too worried about the metrocons. I'm a brie eating, indie film viewing, over educated, urbanite woman myself and I did little sack dances during Palin's speech last night. She's my kind of feminist - pro-life, pro-family, pro-2nd amendment, bright, informed and deadly to tangle with. She reminds me of C.S. Lewis' description of Narnian men, which has always struck me as the perfect image of what Americans are when we are at our best, "they walked with a swing and let their arms and shoulders free, and chatted and laughed. One was whistling. You could see that they were ready to be friends with anyone who was friendly and didn't give a fig for anyone who wasn't. Shasta thought he had never seen anything so lovely in his life." I haven't seen anything as lovely as Palin in a long time either. If she lives up to half her promises of last night I will volunteer for her presidential campaign.
Sarah Adams
DOCTORATE AND NO LONGER DEBATING
I have earned:
a JD from Vanderbilt University
& a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
I had difficulties with McCain - until he appointed Palin. I'm no longer debating whether to write in a decent candidate in Nov -- McCain-Palin have my vote.
Nameless if you use this
UPSCALE AND UPBEAT
I'm hardly what one might call a "downscale white voter"
* White
* 47 year old male
* College degree
* married with children
* Associate in a Midwestern Architectural firm
* Firm backer of McCain BECAUSE of Gov. Palin.
I've voted since Reagan's first run and until this election I have never given a dime to either party. This year was a first. Hell, I might even volunteer.
K. A. Hughes
Indianapolis, Indiana
IVY LEAGUERS INSPIRED
You are fab and your columns are perfect.
My new husband is a consultant with an MBA from an Ivy league, my 26-year-old son is off to an Ivy league school to get an MBA after working in Ky the last two years, my 23 year old daughter the civil engineer is on her way to Dartmouth in three weeks to get a masters are not only thrilled at the pick, but are donating time and $$. ( I have a law degree but am now retired)
I have a lot of well educated friends who love her. We live in Mass but we don't hate the people in red states. Our lives are about hard work and family so the degrees and the amount of zeros on the checks don't define us.
Risa
IVY LEAGUE STRANGLEHOLD
FWIW, last night it struck me that if McCain/Palin are elected, it will be the first time in 20 years that an Ivy Leaguer hasn't been POTUS. Nothing wrong with an Ivy League education, but sometimes it does feel rather like Harvard and Yale in particular are directing the whole American symphony at the highest levels. Some of the "Skull and Bones" chatter from the last election indicates a resentment of the Ivy League club in general. McCain - US Navy College, Palin - University of Idaho. Palin is already being portrayed as a rube for that. Maybe it works in their favor. Just sayin'.
Diane Pettey
Aliso Viejo, California
DOES A MASTER’S COUNT?
Well I only have a Master's degree so I guess that makes me somewhere half way between a "downscale white voter" and "more educated" but the Palin choice has GALVANIZED the intensity of my "GOP support" (and not because we're both women). I don't understand where Frum is coming from most of the time but that statement is just awful.
Elizabeth Smith
CAUTIONARY TALES
Peggy Noonan talks one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. Learning that was one of the few disappointments of the past 24 hours. And yes, I have seen her non-explanation.
A cautionary tale for the dwindling list of media people I like. Stay real.
David Graham Kern
Cincinnati, Ohio
HIGHBROW HOMEMAKERS
I don't know who these people know or surround themselves with, but nearly every single one of my 30-something friends here in Indiana is married to a housewife with a college degree! Remarkable how truly hypocritical people can be when operating from an elitist bubble.
Jeff Pierce
Indiana
HOW MANY DEGREES DO WE NEED?
My non-random survey of reactions to the speech was limited to whites with only one post-undergraduate degree. The unanimous reaction: ecstasy. So I wonder how many degrees would be needed to constitute "more educated white voters"?
She was breath-taking. There may be hope in 2008, after all.
Joseph Shier
PHDS FOR PALIN
What the heck is Frum talking about? My wife and I-both with PhDs - are crazy about Sarah Palin.
Tim Keith
Austin, Texas
TEARS OF JOY
I am an evangelical (Baptist) Christian, a VP of a global company based in the EU, Masters-level education, pro-life advocate, soccer dad, father of a soldier (daughter in Iraq) and have voted in every election since 1974.
I picked Palin months ago! Last night my wife and I both had tears of joy and relief in our bleary eyes as we witnessed SP's speech.
No upscale issues here. Same with our friends.
Thanks for all you do!!
CS
New Jersey
ALL WOMAN
Take it from this downscale Ph.D.-holding father of six young children: Sarah is
100% woman. No doubt.
The folks at NOW? Wouldn't really want to hazard a guess... reminiscent of the East German track and field team in the bad old days...
Bill
Plano, Texas
WHOSE SCALE IS IT ANYWAY?
Thanks for your advice to Frum at The Corner about “downscale” white voters. I'm about Palin's age, grew up in Washington State in a blue-collar town smaller than Wasilla, graduated from Stanford and currently live on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. I'm as comfortable in the tavern back home as I am at Lincoln Center. I don't consider my friends and family back home “downscale”, and I don't consider Frum “upscale.” I think he's an asshat. My blood has been BOILING this week listening to “feminists” sniff at Palin and her five kids. "How redneck! How dumb is she?!" She may not be pushing her double-wide stroller along a Park Slope sidewalk showing off her designer-made twins, but believe me Palin didn't have five kids because she's “dumb”. She had five kids the “old fashioned” way and didn't leave behind a handful of babies discarded in a clinic's trash bin because they were just “embryos” in a dish.
“Typical white woman” who “clings to religion” and is voting Palin come November.
TELL FRUM NOT TO WORRY
I'm a Jewish man, over-educated at Ivy League schools at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I work in a high tech field. I lean libertarian. I'm about as far away from the Sarah Palin demographic as one could get and still be in the Republican Party.
Still, I'm a huge Sarah Palin fan, and I've supported her nomination for months. Tell your pal Frum not to worry. There are plenty of folks in the Republican Party who want to drain the swamp and can get behind a McCain-Palin administration that takes on Washington. Then we can look forward to Palin-Jindal in 2012 and 2016, and Jindal at the top of the ticket in 2020 and 2024.
Jonathan Chambers
BBC BABIES
The BBC's Matt Frei comments snarkily: "the *crowded* Palin family will soon have another addition".
Frei is a father of four. His colleague BBC Washington correspondent Katty Kay also has four children. BBC employees have large families (especially, it would seem, those enjoying life in America). Gun-totin' moose-eatin' hicks have crowded ones.
DB
IT’S DIFFERENT FOR DEMS
Pelosi has five children.
Jack O’Malley
AND A HOT FIRST DUDE
I am a 9/11 convert to Conservatism so my knowledge and experience about all things Republican or Conservative is not as extensive as Mr. Frum however, from my observation over the last several years I am thinking that Ronald Reagan was not just a Conservative Revolution against Liberalism but a Revolution against the snobbish affluent, country-clubber Republican who prefers an invitation to the celebrity VIP room than being associated with those "downscale white voters."
I think Gov Palin is the Revolution against hoity-toity VIP-room snobs residing in all political parties.
Susan
NYC, NY
PS: I am excited about Gov Palin for numerous reasons, one being that for the first time in my 47 years of living I will be able to say the Vice-President is terrific and the First Vice-President Dude is hot!
LAZY ASSUMPTION
You write:
"[I]t's a lazy assumption to take for granted that most Americans find Sarah Palin's choices as freakish as our metropolitan elites do."
I live in Manhattan. We have friends with seven children, both parents working (admittedly the mother only works part time). And trust me, if you can afford a big enough townhouse to fit a family like that in Manhattan, you are by definition elite or at least wealthy. We know lots of couples with three or four kids, often the
mother works. In many ways, it's easier for elites, because they can afford nannies, etc. The saying on the playground (with respect to how many kids to have) is "three is the new two".
Colin Rust.
New York, NY
POLITICAL PROGENY
I have an advance release of the next Palin scandal: "REAGAN - THATCHER LOVE CHILD IDENTIFIED" .
MRH
SARAH’S KO’D THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN
No public person has had such an impact on me in years ...going all way back to the day I discovered Mark Steyn. (10 yrs, give or take).
That scene where the little Palin daughter is finger-combing the infant's hair will live in history.
Poor Obama. Poor Biden. Poor McCain. Poor Hillary.
BONUS: her body language showed me she doesn't think much of McCain. Neither do I.
John Gross
Quebec
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO SHELTON?
Love the finely tuned sensibilities of your reader mentioned in that post.
But, have you ever been to Shelton, WA?
Think Groveton, NH without the night life.
Shelton is a social workers dream. I know because I've been there and a very good friend of mine is a social worker in Shelton. This guy's rant about "reproduction run amok" is pure projection. It is what he sees around Shelton everyday - and the area is not exactly cosmopolitan.
Geeesh.
Sean Bannion
ANOTHER SHELTONITE BACK AT YA
Or at least former resident -- but I'll always be a 'climber in my heart (Shelton Highclimber, that is).
My suspicion is that many people from Shelton -- and that area generally -- will love Palin. Not saying that McCain will carry Washington or anything, but I think your emailer is a bit of an outlier. Shelton is a little logging town, and I would bet her speech and candidacy are resonating with a lot of folks there. They sure are for me, anyway.
Well, now I must get my city hands back to work.
P.S. -- Loved America Alone. Keep up the good work.
Michael J. McElroy
Washington DC
PROGRESSIVE IT AIN'T
I live in Washington and grew up near (but no where close to in) Shelton. Shelton would never, ever be described as a progressive town. It's a logging town and is best known for the fist fights that occur outside it's bars.
Terry Caffey
Bellevue, Washington
Re: America Alone
GLOBE FINALLY GETS IT
Looks like the Globe and Mail decided you were right after all. A year ago they would have dismissed you as a racist scaremonger. I guess they can't pretend it isn't happening any longer: "Europe's Demographic Bombshell"
Can't wait til you get back from vacation. We all are suffering from "Steyn withdrawal".
Krista
New Brunswick, Canada
WELCOME BACK?
Welcome back! Us sane types have been getting desperate. Jonah, Rich, VDH, Tom Sowell and Co. are great but the forward pack needs you there in the middle of the front row too. Loved your caution to David Frum. I wrote to him in a similar vein. Also I hope the great Krauthammer sees how misguided he is about this issue. It's simply no contest. Hope comments will be coming from you on a regular basis from
now on in?
Best to you and yours.
Geoff Hawkins
Cary, North Carolina
IT’S A FAIR COP
Here's a pdf of the suspension letter issued to Wooten by the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
If you don't get fired for all that stuff, something really is wrong. Palin was right.
Charles Barksdale
NON-PROGRESSIVE SCREEDS
Mr Steyn, I notice that you and your fellow NRO-niks frequently post grotesque rants by deranged "liberal" loons. But I never see any serious challenges or questions from liberal readers (I've had several email exchanges, some heated, with Cornerites, but I have never used invective and my sarcasm is no more severe than your own).
If you believe your ideas are correct, shouldn't you be willing to debate the issues rather than post the incredibly non-progressive screeds from Leftists like your Mr Sensitive? Unless, that is, you think "abortion prohibitionist hag" is the highest level of rhetoric that you feel competent to rebut.
David B
HAD IT WITH THE HIATUS
Come the Hell BACK!!
Come on, Steyn; make with the jokes and the insight. You can go back to sleep on November 7th, dammit!
Trevy J. Organ
New Orleans, La./Nagoya, Japan
UNPACK THAT PEN
Thank you for the Hiatus Interruptus today. Along with I'm sure dozens of others, I have missed having your commentary on the presidential campaign.
There are something like eight weeks left before the election. I would submit to you that your pen (or its 21st century equivalent) is too mighty to be sheathed at this time. Governor Palin smacked them with a 2x4 last night, but they have learned to recover quickly. Your efforts will be invaluable in keeping the Party of Defeat in their place.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jeffrey C. Spradlin
HAPPY HARBINGER?
All summer, one question has been on our families collective lip: where the hell is Steyn? Just wanted to say we hope the snippets we have seen lately are just a harbinger of a renewed writing schedule (not that we don't think you deserved a break).
America Alone is being passed among my wife and children - evidence provided by bursts of laughter every 5 minutes. Words cannot express our appreciation for you.
Paul Heyliger
Fort Collins, Colorado
WHERE, WHY, WHEN?
We are missing, terribly, your Monday columns in THE NEW YORK SUN. It's too bad we don't have that to look forward to and start the week with a few good howls. We
hope the NYSUN survives and that we will again see your columns there regularly.
What in the world happened?
Mona Brafman
Far Rockaway, New York
ENOUGH ALREADY
Everyone is entitled to take a break. But it's time to get back to work.
A fan in Alaska
LAST WORD
Man, am I glad you are back.
Keel55
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