A Hole in the Hole

Wondering what happened to Douthat Watch (the Times published the second installment of Ross Douthat's efforts in the distinctly provisional online forum)?

You have to have very good eyes to see nothing.

The column, an embarrassingly vapid description of how the Republican Party needs a "center" but not one that involves any existing Republican centrists, is almost infinite regress. Douthat says nothing interesting about how nothing will solve the Republicans' problem of nothing to offer. I feel like I'm watching the old Seinfeld show.

So instead of an analysis of nothing, I offer the following question for us to discuss: What in the world did the New York Times think it was doing? Is this the frog that keeps jumping long after its brain function has stopped?

Comments

[GayIthacan]

08:32 PM on 05/07/2009

It's difficult to find a 'Gore VIdal of the Right" when they have nothing but Bill Kristols in the inventory.

[jmpurser]

02:48 PM on 05/07/2009

The New York Times is looking for an intelligent articulate Conservative without a mental problem. That's the equivalent of being down in a coal cellar at midnight looking for a black cat that's not there.