He's funnier than any of us, so we let him. There are some things I don't understand about conservatives, such as why they don't like to conserve anything. Given a choice between conserving a historic landscape, like the Virginia piedmont, and letting developers bring in the bulldozers and put in their ugly subdivisions, the conservatives seem to go with the developers every time. They don't seem interested in conserving energy, that's for certain.
Conserving energy is considered wimpy and unAmerican.
Dick Cheney the other day said he's tired of people saying Americans live too high on the hog. Get real, he said. The solution to the energy crisis is to rip more coal out of the ground and start drilling in the Arctic. For several decades, since Goldwater at least, we knew who the conservatives were. They were ranchers who liked guns and disliked hippies, feminists, journalists, sexual deviants, college professors and foreigners.