From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 2/5/08, 13:45

Hey, you know what would be funny? Like, if National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez were to write a whole column predicated on how everyone in the GOP should follow Reagan's 11th Commandment - namely, that "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican" - and then she spent the bulk of the column speaking ill of fellow Republican and possible GOP presidential candidate John McCain.

Hey, you know else what would be funny? Like, if Lopez were to write in the very same column:

The fact that [Romney and McCain] are squabbling so much is a ridiculous distraction.

... and then proceed to talk about how McCain and Romney are squabbling so much.

Hey, hey, hey... hey. I just thought of something else. What if Lopez were to criticize MoveOn.org and Democrats in general for having called into question the honesty of a war hero:

Flashback to last spring, and most memorably and infuriatingly to last September, and you'll remember the left-wing, antiwar group MoveOn running the reprehensible "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" ad. They accused this American hero of "Cooking the Books for the White House" in making his case for the in-progress surge of troops on the ground in Iraq. Hillary Clinton, during Petraeus' Senate testimony at the time, accused him of lying to the Senate. Clinton said that believing his cautiously optimistic report required a "willing suspension of disbelief."

... in the very same column in which she herself calls into question the honesty of another war hero:

In the days before Super Tuesday, as the race for the GOP nomination became John McCain's to lose, McCain continued his dishonest and dishonorable attacks against Mitt Romney. In a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, he continued to insist, as he had just before the Florida primary, that Romney was on the side of defeat in Iraq... McCain muddies that clarity when he dishonestly pretends that Romney was on the Democratic side last year...

That would all be pretty funny, I think. It would be like the Ace Ventura 2 of Townhall.com columns.