So now that I’ve cooled off, numerous conservative tweeters apologized and deleted their tweets, Mike Cane and Aaron Worthing and Patterico came to my defense, and Fox News didn’t completely trash me, I feel like I can stand down.
[Added 2025-07-22 for reference]
What I should’ve said1 was:
or some variant thereof that was still sarcastic enough to get the point across.
(The “What if she’s next?” part is me displaying my mad Pshop skillz.)
Do I really think conservatism is dead? I don’t know. I struggle with it on a daily basis, and have for several years. However, the many tweeters who sent me nastytweets (save one, who apparently wanted me to sign away my citizenship), who then listened to me, then apologized, retracted/deleted their tweets with my name, and were willing to spread the word made me rethink it.
Despite my tagline, I really don’t often talk politics here on the blog. I leave that to my characters to do for me. But now that you know who I am and where you can find me, maybe you’ll stick around a while.
And I’m pretty sure y’all can find my Twitter name …
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1. It’s now July 2025 and I’m cleaning up my blog, fixing links, putting images back, and so forth. I haven’t made many notes on the actual posts, but this one I will because I have regretted walking this back for years. Never apologize.
I still say that the intent of your original Tweet was obvious. And that’s all I’ll say, because your example of classiness in this situation is rubbing off on me. (Enjoy that while it lasts.)