Oh, dear. Even reaching across the many aisles that cleave what’s left of our side is now unwelcome:

I wish Mark Steyn would stop telling us how much he likes Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker, and all the rest of the aristos at NRO who’ve spent the last 8 years with their knee on the throat of conservatism. He’s starting to sound like John McCain, intoning “My friends…” as another grinning leftist shoves a boot up his…

In fairness, I only say how much I like Peggy and Kathleen because every time Christopher Buckley writes one of his Obama-is-just-the-chap-for-us-small-government-conservatives pieces he feels obliged to mention how hot he finds Kathleen. And I didn’t want my disagreement with him over the “conservatism” of the new President to imply I find his views on Kathleen equally risible.

For what it’s worth, I don’t find David Frum in the least bit hot. Although, if I did, he’d be way hotter than Ken Adelman.

By the way, I don’t disagree with this blogger’s general view of the somewhat narrow conservative debate over at Slate. As I said on the post-2006 NR cruise, it requires a perverse genius on Bush’s part to get damned as a lunatic right-wing cowboy when 90% of the time he’s Tony Blair with a ranch. As we’ve seen these last few months, John McCain was so accustomed to running against his party the old dog was incapable of learning the entirely novel trick of running for it. What about the other star names in this year’s primary season: Rudy Giuliani? Well, there’s a pro-life gun-nut. Mitt Romney? Technocrat governor of a deep blue state. Mike Huckabee? Compassionate conservatism on steroids.

In other words, I don’t think the problem these last few years has been ”right-wing extremism”.