Midnight banter with Rod Dreher

[CoolOnion]

I have a running correspondence with several members of the Dallas Morning News editorial board; mostly, they appreciate my insight, my wry sense of humor and witty repartee.

But for some reason, Rod Dreher doesn't like me.

Maybe it's because I once suggested that he write a follow-up to his book "Crunchy Cons," called "Crunchy Conned--how Republicans played to my fears and made me vote against my own interests."

Or maybe he doesn't like me because of the one time he blogged about "profiling," and how to figure out who's a "terrorist," and I responded by emailing him a picture of himself--which I found on their own blog--holding a "W" coffee mug, with the comment, "I don't know about you, but if I saw this guy coming at me, I'd run the other way."

It was supposed to be funny.

Anyway, last night, I decided to engage in some http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/going-over-to-t.html#comments">light banter with Rod Dreher before going to bed.

Is it just me, or does he seem a bit defensive? Why, oh why, doesn't Rod Dreher like me? :sarcasm:

Posted by Linda @ 11:49 PM Tue, Mar 04, 2008

A friend sent this in an email tonight--an oldie, but goodie called Day in the Life of Joe Republican. I thought of you...

http://home.comcast.net/~theyellowdog/joerepublican.htm

It's okay, Rod. Keep voting Republican if it makes you feel more secure. We're watching your back, anyway.

Posted by Rod Dreher @ 11:59 PM Tue, Mar 04, 2008

Isn't that, you know, kind of pathetic and third-rate, asserting that someone votes Republican because it makes me feel more secure? I vote Republican because -- please, dear, steady yourself -- I am a Republican. If I said you only vote Democrat because it allows you to work out your neuroses and envy-complexes, that would be just as dumb.

Posted by Linda @ 12:32 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008

Shhhh, Rod, everything's okay. Here's a bed time story for you: it's 3:00 am and there's a scary narrator in your room:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbek46GB-zU

(My favorite line: "The world's a tough, dangerous place, and always has been. No reason to reupholster the inside of your trousers and vote like a moron every time they say 'boo'.")

:rofl:

[tanyev]

1. I was so tempted to email him after his piece on how Western civilization

needs to do more procreating and ask him if he thought Himmler's Lebensborn program was a good idea, but I figured it would just turn into a pissing match.

Why Western civilization must learn to procreate or perish
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/021708dnedidreher.3f7a36.html

:puke:

[CoolOnion]

2. Yeah, I thought of that, too, but didn't

I figured the same thing, too, that he'd just get all mad and defensive.

But it did give me a fresh perspective on Nazi Germany, a nation of Rod Dreher's hiding in their homes, scared to death of "those people."
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[CoolOnion]

3. Clever response on the blog

Yours is a "Conservative" voice I respect...

...Perhaps it would make a good Op-Ed piece, "Why I have always disliked Hillary Clinton" (presuming it contained the intellectual honesty always missing from a Mark Davis drive-by). I'm serious.

A column on just what a "Republican" is would be welcome, too. You make it sound almost genetic in an above response.

Genetic--that's a good one!

:applause: