Well, not really. I mean, there’s still you, Rick. Granted, that would be myopic, incendiary, Visigothy — and punishing to someone who is a real thinker, not a rhetorical bomb-thrower with an axe to grind against we ridiculous, warped, dangerous True Believer TEA Party types, wallowing as we are in a stew of our own ignorance — but what the heck. It’s all-in time! Plus, I’ve always wanted to wear

Talk of her demise has been greatly exaggerated, I’d say. In fact, with 7 standing ovations, she even edged out the number of standing ovations Karl Rove received — though Rove’s came not at CPAC, but largely from liberal outlets. And Mike Castle. Jeb and the Bush parents offered Karl a very dignified golf clap, but that doesn’t really count. It’s funny, really, that there are many top “conservative” sites

Theme from The Quiet Man as sung by Bing Crosby And, if you missed it the first time, my husband’s and my visit to Ireland in May 2011. Ireland Vacation from Darleen Click on Vimeo.

But don’t let Karl Rove’s mockery of a TEA Party icon fool you, though: Rove is almost certainly a die hard conservative. Otherwise, why would he have named his campaign to beat back primary challenges to feckless, moderate, government-centric Republican technocrats and overspenders the Conservative Victory Project? Yeah. That’s what I thought, Hobbits.