This is what passes for conservatism?

There's no way I couldn't link to this article from the new Breitbart blog, Big Hollywood (which is apparently devoted to making Hollywood more conservative - not that this article will help with that).

Money quote:

I don’t want to get along with the Left. I want to take them down. I want to expose their idiocy for what it is and reveal it as a harmful, dangerous succession of lies and deceptions. My friends say that that effort, aside from being fruitless, will cost me work. It will cost me my career. And I say Wait-a-minute, Bucko. Those folks who founded this country were willing to risk not only their careers, but their property, their families, their very lives…the least I can do in standing up for our precious freedoms is risk a silly television career. Not to compare myself with the brilliant thinkers who declared themselves independent of England and framed our Constitution…but those were some pretty pissed off dudes too. Compared to that, loss of a little TV or movie work seems pretty inconsequential. So in honor of Pissed Off Americans past and present, I rant.

I think that may be the most ridiculous passage I have yet read. Ever. Besides, can anyone tell me something Gary Graham has been in as evidence of this television career he speaks of? At any rate, I'm guessing he can find a home with 24 if nothing else.

Memo to author: Other Americans with different political beliefs from yours are not your enemy. Maybe if your party grasped that notion last year, rather than constantly braying on about "real Americans," with the patron saint of this Cult of Real America being Saint Joe the Plumber, they wouldn't have gotten the living crap beaten out of them in elections across the country.

Sullivan makes a good point about the post in question, and the reporterization of Joe the Plumber:

Does Pajamas Media believe that the future of journalism really belongs to Joe The Plumber? Or that this is really worth publishing? It seems to me that the right is still culturally disoriented. If they are still promoting Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber and Ann Coulter and culture-war resentment as their core message, they are obviously in deep denial about what this election really meant. If their only unifying theme is hatred or reified "elite liberals", they are doomed.

This denial - this calcification of the worst of the right in the last eight years - is the real danger to Republicans. What they need is a grappling with the public policy issues at hand, and an imaginative constructive, conservative approach to them. But the posturing is so much easier, isn't it? And still, one presumes, really lucrative for a tiny few.

I would have thought the right would start coming home to the reasoned conservatism of Bill Buckley after a shellacking like 2008. I still hope so, because a solid conservatism will ensure that the Left doesn't get too carried away. But there certainly isn't much reason to think the lesson has sunk in yet.