An e-mail:

K-Lo, I think that it is a delayed reaction to your stated desire to not hear about the “18MM cracks in the glass ceiling again’ (which, BTW, I concur). It probably goes along with a couple of posts from Jay Nordlinger yesterday that had the distinct whiff of defeatism (to paraphrase Jerry Nadler). I don’t know all conservatives, but I am becoming downright hardened in my McCain/Palin support and getting quite angry. I am actually hoping that an Obama supporter will get “in my face.” What gets us a little riled up is that there is a downward shift in the polls, and we start wallowing in defeat. Oy!

Dudes, I want to win this election to. But I can’t criticize a trite and unhelpful bit of left-wing nonsense when one of our guys adapts it ad nauseam? I totally know what you’re talking about and know where the frustration is coming from but we can’t give our preferred candidates a free pass either.

As for defeatism, I’ve heard it from colleagues, I heard it four years ago, I heard it four years before that … Fact, is, it’s never over until Election Day … or sometimes three weeks later … so there’s no giving up or in. And this one isn’t even close to over. Hear me?

UPDATE:

My goodness, I liked the interview. I was annoyed by the glass ceiling. Being a chick and all, constantly told I’m oppressed, it gets to me when one of our chicks does it. Anyway, there’s much more to the election.

But, man, here’s another e-mail, and when he puts a humble blog post or two in terms of a dress it’s brutal!

Defeatism at its outset is difficult to identify but often snowballs
into a torrent of gloom from small pinpricks of doubt and
complacency. I’m not worried about the false defeatism of 2000 and
2004 which was more an expression of not wanting to ‘jinx’ an
election. The despair I fear is that of the 2006 election, where
Conservatives and Republicans fell into dark territory that they
didn’t even begin to climb out of until the selection of Sarah Palin.
So yes, it is something you said and very much the things you didn’t
say regarding Palin’s Hannity interview. In your post you said ‘She
was fine . . .’ Uh, huh, try using the word ‘fine’ to describe a
dress your girlfriend is wearing or a dinner your wife made and see
the reaction. As a Conservative Republican I viewed Palin’s interview
with Hannity as exceptional, especially as a Conservative Republican.
She spoke to my own perspective and was plain speaking, resolute and
quite engaging. And so the only thing you could say is she was ‘fine’
and then added the snarky little bit about the glass ceiling cracks.
I click on the Corner to get views of Conservative opinion on how my
preferred candidate is doing or did and all I get is a short-shrift
statement and a little nip at the candidate’s heels.
Nobody expects you to be a cheerleader for the only Conservative
Republican running on either ticket but we don’t expect you to be
party to her death by a thousand cuts either.