Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Kevin Drum   [Ramesh Ponnuru]

asks one more time: "In Ponnuru's world, why should people who murder fetuses or allow their fetuses to be murdered get off with nothing more than a stern warning?" It's a question, he says, that he has been asking for some time, and he has gotten only "shilly-shallying," never a "straightforward" answer.

I answered this question on the Corner before the book came out when someone brought it up. But Drum may have missed that.

I answered that question in the book. But Drum didn't read the book.

I answered it again on the Corner a few months later. Drum proved incapable of following a fairly simple set of arguments.

I answer it yet again today. Why do I get the impression that there is no answer I can give that Drum will not either misconstrue, condemn as "shilly-shallying," or simply ignore?

09/05 04:30 PMShare