PJ O'Rourke joins the FauxCons

November 9, 1:19 PMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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P.J. O'Rourke

Over at the Weekly Standard (don't get me started...) a once great right wing polemicist embraces self-disgust and moral posturing over the Founders' eternal principles, prompted by the illusory greatness of His O-liness, Barack Obama.

We've seen a lot of this lately: Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, all the pro-bailout conservatives, including the most recent GOP nominee for President.

But PJ O'Rourke? The hip, the cool, the blazingly talented?

Getting married and having kids was obviously the worse thing that could have happened to his mind and his prose style. He's clearly hanging out with other upper class elites with their SUV strollers and nannies.

After all, when you get to the point that you employ a nanny or two, the once-dreaded phrase "nanny state" loses some of its power to induce cringes.

For instance, he declares baldly: "Nobody with kids is a liberal."

Apparently PJ O'Rourke is the only sentient being in America who didn't see and hear Obama fan Peggy Joseph declare (in the presence of her children) how happy she was now that President Obama would pay for her gas and mortgage, just like the man she couldn't be bothered marrying in the first place.

O'Rourke continues:

"Everybody wants his or her children to respect freedom, exercise responsibility, be honest, get educated, have opportunities, and own a bunch of guns. (The last is optional and includes, but is not limited to, me, my friends in New Hampshire, and Sarah Palin.)"

Actually Peej, that your kids "own a bunch of guns" may be the only thing you and Peggy DO agree on.

Wow, he has really lost it. What a shame for America. We need all the right minded polemicists we can get. And right when we need them most, they're revealing themselves to be nothing more than Democrats with different friends.

Read the rest of my fisking of PJ O'Rourke here.

For a more polite but quietly devastating take down, check out this fine post by "The Other McCain."