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There He Goes Again
Daily Pundit — Pajamas Media » Conservatives at CPAC Talking the Talk — But Can they Walk the Walk? While there may be an agreement by conservatives regarding that critique, it presupposes that there were not other, more fundamental aspects of what conservatism has become that were roundly rejected by huge swaths of the American electorate. The movement is seen as intolerant of gays, immigrants, and other non-white, non-middle class citizens — a perception that the Republican Party does little to counter and makes attacking conservatism on these issues extremely easy. ...

Crickets
Daily Pundit — Pajamas Media » Conservatives at CPAC Talking the Talk — But Can they Walk the Walk? “Voters didn’t reject conservatism — they just said ‘no, you can’t’ to the Republican Party after it had failed to walk the conservatism it had talked,” ACU Chairman David A. Keene said this week. “Republicans lost their credibility as the party of the center-right when they became specialists in earmarks and the Bush White House presided over huge increases in discretionary spending,” he added. I’m awaiting the apologies of Bushbots and ...

Yglesias Award Nominee
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... continue to delude themselves that simply reaffirming conservative love of small government, low taxes, and less regulation will be enough to convince a majority of Americans that they recognize their shortcomings and have changed their tune. There must be a reckoning with those who violate the very nature of conservatism by obstinately adhering to exclusionary, anti-intellectual precepts that have thrown classical conservatism over in favor of ranting, ideological tantrums," - Rick Moran. ...