Ack! That emailer is clearly a good and decent guy and I have no problem with King of the Hill fans stepping up for the show. But come on! This just proves my basic problem with Crunchy Conservatism. It just plain old doesn’t exist. You keep hearing this theme pop up over: so-and-so loves his family, so-and-so doesn’t want a job that’s unfulfilling, whatshisname likes his community: so he’s a crunchy con! I simply reject completely the logic that says the closer you get to being a decent family man (or woman) who contributes to his community, the further you move away from a “mainstream” conservative and the closer you move to a “crunchy conservative.”

I know this emailer says that’s not what he wanted to do. But the fact is those guys have framed the conversation in precisely those terms, so much so that in order to introduce Hank Hill as a Cruncher he had to show that he loves his family etc. E-frick’n-nuff.