Self Inflicted Pain

Big decision to make. Which would be more painful, hammering nails into my eyes and ears or watching The State of Conservatism, National Review Institute, Saturday on C-span? Because there are times when I do like to suffer to the max, I watched the C-span program.

There were five women on the program. There was Mona Charen, Michelle Malkin, Kay O’Beirne, Laura Ingram, and the emcee, Kathryn Lopez, who is the editor of the National Review online. How’s that for a fine panel of female conservatives?

I’m not going to quote any one of them, but instead I’ll tell you what I heard. I heard all of them at one time or another go all damp over the fact that Michelle Malkin had made a trip to Iraq and what wonderful coverage she has been doing on the war. I don’t know where they were keeping the barf bags, but they must have been somewhere close.

Most of what each of them said was that oh damn, Hillary is running and the Democrats are all so wrong etc, etc, etc. Only Laura Ingram came up with a few sane lines. The one that stuck out the most was when she said that if the Democrats had adopted a pro-life position by 08, it would be a total nightmare for the Republican party. Listen to what she said. She’s basically saying that the pro-life platform is all the Republicans have going for them in the next election cycle. Wow, that’s quite an admission, huh?

Most of the time Mona Charen was acting like she was the only one in the know. Kay O’Beirne was trying to be clever and messing with her hair way too much. Michelle was looking all pouty and confused. Bless her heart. I guess that trip to Iraq took something out of her. What a little patriot she is.

The emcee of the show, Ms. Lopez drove me freakin’ crazy messing with her clip on microphone and trying to be clever and cool. She may be a good or even great writer, I have no idea. I do know she should stay the hell away from TV cameras. They aren’t her friend. She’s neither clever nor cool. She was more irritating than any of the other women who were on the program and that’s saying a whole hell of a lot. She had some serious harpy competition.

Yes, I do plan a trip to a therapist to see why in the hell I punish myself this way. Viewing that program was some serious kind of mental, visual and aural torture. I did however find it funny that they took one another so seriously. I just don’t know why.