Ace on race

Ace is often funny and sometimes uses four-letter words but he's also astute and has excellent political instincts. That's why I read his blog. His latest blog post is a good example. Why I Always Get On People's Asses About the Race Issue:

My use of profanity and dick jokes isn't just a part of my personality. It is that, of course. But there was a reason for it, too, an intellectual one, a strategic one.

My idea was this: There are many attractive personalities on the right who can cultivate people who are strongly religious/rigorous in their personal moral behavior (and whose mores, I mean, in turn demand they not take delight in profanity or dick jokes).

But there were other Republicans, more like me, who were a bit... sketchy.

And furthermore, that there were people who could be Republicans, but were put off by the notion that it was all fuddy-duddy and straight-laced and no fun, but who maybe could be induced to pull the lever for the GOP if they saw there were other... sketchy characters in the party, too.

That it wasn't just a party, it was... well, a party. That we had fun. That we cut loose. That we weren't just all buttoned-up and inhibited.

We were the dirty conservatives.

That's not a big demographic, but it does exist. The fact that it is small will, unfortunately, forever limit this site's top size. But it will exist at a moderate size to serve that niche.

Now my point is: This blog is intended, among all the other things, as outreach. As an ambassador. As... well, an evangelizer.

And what frustrates me is that often comments are made without care or restraint that retard that intent of the blog, that undermine it, that defeat it.

Count me as a "dirty conservative" or, as P. J. O'Rourke called us, "Republican Party Reptiles."