Don’t know why I should bother, since I’m not one of them any more: but to

your reader’s “Select Few with True Vision,” Jonah, I should think that by

anyone’s standard, that phrase is much more applicable to the American lady

I quoted (“Republicans want to force me to have babies!”) and to her mirror

images, the people on the Right who make it a dead-on certainty that, if I

express my mildly pro-abortion views on NRO, I shall get emails calling me a

murderer.

I don’t suppose I shall ever get into step with the

forced-pregnancy/Derb-is-a-murderer mindsets. They continue to strike me as

weirdly hysterical, and I suppose always will. Political equivalent of not

being able altogether to lose your foreign accent. I came here too late in

life. I *am* now enough of an American, though, to see that there is indeed

something unpleasantly smug about Brit-conservative condescension, and I

apologize if I have been guilty of it. (Brit-lefty condescension is another

matter — but lefties everywhere are appalling, what else can one say?)