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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... writes. Gloom amongst Republicans should focus on the missed opportunities of the past eight years, as conservatives are saddled with the Bush administration’s legacy, Ross Douthat blogs. There may be “Bush fatigue,” but it hardly means a verdict on the American right, and Republicans have failed to push back against that narrative, ...
The Conservative Debate: Moderate Conservatism Tried?
PoliGazette —
... Ross Douthat, however, remembers everyone that Bush was in fact the ‘reform Republican’ so many Republicans say is needed today. Bush was a ‘compassionate’ conservatism who did not want to make government smaller but “stronger.” He wanted to “reform Washington,” not the nation. He would accept that the federal government played an important role in education and health care, and would work to let it do its job better, possibly by increasing its size. ...
ELECTION DAY THOUGHTS
Right Wing Nut House —
... and found myself nodding in agreement all the way through it. Now, Ross is one of them “elitist” conservatives in that he has more than two brain cells working at the same time and has actually written a book with big words in it – not like conservative hero Sean Hannity who makes it easy for us common folk to read by never using a word with more than 4 syllables in it. “Cotton candy conservatism” I call Hannity’s pablum. And that’s insulting cotton candy. Here, he articulates my exact feelings about Bush and McCain: I had a succession of meals last week with smart ...
"Conservatism" After Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Bush gave us the worst of incompetent, big-spending liberal statism and interventionism and branded it all conservative for a generation. No wonder Ross seems deflated: ...
Moving On
The Moderate Voice —
... I am no longer a Republican. I am no longer a conservative.
To be clear: I still believe in many of the principles that first led me to the Republican Party. I still have a number of conservative tendencies. But of this party and movement, as they are defined today, I am no more.
There are some, I’m sure, who will ask why, rather than leaving the fold at this darkest of moments, I don’t join the countless other voices who are now in various stages of bemoaning the shape of the party, offering opinions on what went wrong, ...
A Generation In The Wilderness? Part II
Newshoggers.com —
... To be clear: I still believe in many of the principles that first led me to the Republican Party. I still have a number of conservative tendencies. But of this party and movement, as they are defined today, I am no more.
There are some, I’m sure, who will ask why, rather than leaving the fold at this darkest of moments, I don’t join the countless other voices who are now in various stages of bemoaning the shape of the party, offering ...
The Top Dozen Insights of Conservatives, 2008
TPMCafe —
... There is a conservative Establishment -- a political establishment, yes, but also a think-tank establishment and an opinion-leader establishment -- that has become ossified in its thinking and, over time, more interested in policing its heretics than in thinking creatively about conservatism and its application to the challenges facing our nation and our culture at this particular time. That establishment is dying.
Ross Douthat, The Atlantic
Conservatism in the United States faces a ...
