David Brooks of the New York Times was fishing around for the nastiest exile location he could think of to show how disgusted conservative pundits are with Mike Huckabee and John McCain.

And what horrific place — a real BFE — does he comes up with to make his point? Idaho — our pork chop-shaped neighbor to the north.

"While various conservative poobahs threaten to move to Idaho if Huckabee or McCain gets the nomination, the silent majority of conservative voters seem to like these candidates," Brooks writes.

Who could pay any further attention to Brooks' argument that National Review bloggers hope Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson will join together to save the conservative movement? I was left pondering why Idaho had sprung to the mind of a NY Times dweeb? He couldn't have ever visited the Gem State — with his pasty faced good looks, Dave would be cowboyed up in Almo or Picabo pretty quick.

Idaho has its share of bat-sh*t crazy residents — but it ain't that bad, Dave. If I were exiling "conservative poohbahs," I would select Battle Mountain, Nev., or nearby Hellko.

Better yet, those National Review guys could run for city council in Eagle Mountain, Utah's experiment in free-market government.