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That would be, consevative supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate. Bob Novak says Colin Powell is among them:
[Powell’s] tenuous 13-year relationship with the Republican Party, following his retirement from the Army, has ended. The national security adviser for Ronald Reagan left the present administration bitter about being ushered out of the State Department a year […]
Ah, the looming conservative civil war. I need me some popcorn:
Rush accuses me and the others of seeking to “water conservatism down.”
I counter: it’s the learn-nothing, change-nothing approach that Limbaugh is unwisely endorsing that risks exiling conservatism for a generation.
So which side ya on - stay the course forever or change to fit the changing […]
Regarding this nugget from Joe H., Pat Buchanan has been a very vocal critic of the Bush administration for some time. Few years back he wrote “Where The Right Went Wrong,” which I read on vacation in ‘06; the critiques of how the administration approached the war in Iraq might have been made on Daily […]
This one’s been floating around for a few days in the wake of the McClellan business. I’ll leave it for you to decide whom it sounds like…
In order to make groupthink testable, Irving Janis devised eight symptoms that are indicative of groupthink (1977).
1. Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
2. Rationalising warnings […]
About right:
The fact is: the worst elements of American conservatism took hold under Bush and the better angels surrendered. You can find in the Reagan era two strands. The first is smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong, pragmatic defense, judicial restraint, individual freedom, personal responsibility. The second is executive over-reach, fiscal irresponsibility, impulsive interventionism, […]
All sorts of goodness, really, to be gleaned from McClellan’s upcoming book:
The president’s real motivation for the war, he said, was to transform the Middle East to ensure an enduring peace in the region. But the White House effort to sell the war as necessary due to the stated threat posed by Saddam Hussein was […]
In these trying times, movement types try to claim it’s a yawning chasm. Kevin Drum is having none of it:
Nonetheless, now that the Republican Party has been brought low, an awful lot of conservatives are jumping ship, claiming that it really doesn’t represent them at all. But look: when the GOP made common cause with […]
Kevin Drum, in a smart post on how conservatism now bears a resemblance to liberalism of the late ’70s:
The great liberal wave that lasted from the 30s through the 70s was fundamentally based on three things: middle class wage growth, the construction of a social safety net, and the individual rights revolution. Its other pathologies […]
People sometimes wonder where the bit about ”The Leader” or “Our Leader” or “Teh Leader” comes from. Above is one example.
Gary Hart goes Godwin right out of the box:
Historians of early 21st century American politics will remark the degree to which radical forces, usually called neoconservatives, perverted language as recommended by the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany. Continue to demonize liberals, blame them for all social and economic problems, and soon enough no one […]
Sullivan links to a piece, maybe in part because it mentions him in glowing terms - but also because it makes some points we’re all losing sight of as Hillary chases her white whale:
Considering how much attention mass media has spent on electoral politics it has missed the elephant in the room (pardon the pun): […]
And I’m tempted to say ignorance is bliss. But I won’t. Or maybe I just did.
In any event:
Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the […]
I hadn’t called Shawn the drummer for months, and I felt cheesy about it. With the class and the kids and everything else there’s just no time to rock and roll, but my stuff - an amp, microphone, various stands, etc. - were still at his house. So I dropped him an e-mail: Uh, I […]
In the midst of a piece that sets my teeth on edge because she gets into the “Why doesn’t Obama wear the pin?” business - more on that when I have time to think and write, which won’t be today - Peggy Noonan actually gets around to something that I think is relevant - as […]
We do know the GOP likes to claim it’s the “party of ideas.” Too bad they wage war on actual thought.
So I saw the headline in this morning’s Intell and figured the boards would be in full-throated howl about this. Not quite the case yet, but getting there.
And, with the type of howl that might have been expected. How could Manheim Township do this, think of the traffic, etc. Many valid concerns, though this is […]
Sullivan on right-wing columnist Hugh Hewitt’s free-association conservatism:
It would be helpful if Hewitt were to provide a guide to what he thinks “right” and “left” now are. Hewitt has supported a party that has added $32 trillion to our future unfunded debt in seven years. Is that right or left? Hewitt supports an open-ended project […]
Love-ly. Glenn Greenwald links to a just ducky post on a conservative blog which, beneath a wonderful Easter poem and picture of the crucified Christ, goes on to air some rather pungent thoughts about Barack Obama’s proposed national discussion on race:
On the other hand, I am sick to death of black people as a group. The truth. […]
