An e-mail:

Kathryn–
No conservative should be ashamed of watching Desperate Housewives given the good Republican character of Bree. Admittedly, she’s a little bit of a crazy perfectionists, but you’ve got to forgive her when you consider this (it’s a little long, but it makes the point):
“It was my first week at college and I went to a meeting of the Young Republicans where Rex made a speech. And I went up to him afterwards and told him that I agreed with his stance on the death penalty. He took me out to dinner, and we stayed up til two in the morning talking bout big government, gun control, and illegal immigration. Oh, it was just such a magical night.”
And, when one of her suitors gives her a handgun, she exclaims, “this is so much better than an orchid!”
And then, after her husband has moved out of the house during their separation, Bree asks him to move back in to protect her. He says in response, “Me protect you?
Bree, you’re a member of the NRA. You own like four guns. I’d be expecting you to protect me.”
Cap all this off with the picutre of the Gipper hung prominently in her house…priceless.
Emily in Ohio