Good grief.

This is

the last post I’ll make on this matter, but here’s something a Cornerite wrote to me within the hour:

As a Californian I am all too aware that in choosing a Republican I am
also choosing someone who will make the environment worse, and I suspect if
the Democrats cleaned up their own act it wouldn’t take me much because of
this to switch parties. A cogent environmentalism almost certainly would
help revitalize the party in my state, and yet they refuse to do so, to the
harm of us all. Indeed, Mr. Ponnuru seems to miss your point entirely. You
are bringing your son into this debate because that’s what voters do. We
vote according to our interests, and for Mr. Ponnuru to say, “leave your son
out of the debate” he is basically saying to all of us what we care about
does not matter. He may win the logical argument on such points, but the
Republicans will lose elections if they keep such up, just as they have lost
so much in California.