Even the left wing has to chime in with all kinds of analysis. They are full of crap, but that never stopped them before. It's like someone in the peanut gallery telling a surgeon what he is doing wrong during a brain operation.
No, wait, that would be a lawyer.
I digress. This bunch of Drivel from this loser Liberal.
I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.
He reminds me of all the people who say I would have voted for McCain until he nominated Palin. No they wouldn't have. They lie to themselves. It makes them feel self righteous and victimized. I run into them all the time. This bozo bemoaning the lack of intellectuals in the Conservative realm never respected them one bit except when they supported quasi liberal agendas.
I'm sick of these guys. This in the Wall Street Journal to boot.
On the other hand, a pretty good article about the reality of the coalition being forged into solidity by true conservatives in this country. If we can stop eating our young we will win these elections.
That is made up of a coalition of small-government proponents, foreign-policy hawks and religious conservatives. Members of the first two groups may suggest that the social issues are simply too divisive, that the party should focus on the free market at home or strength abroad. Leave aside for a minute that most evangelicals support those ideas as well.
What this writer says best in his article also in the Wall Street Journal is this about Christians and Tuesday's election:
For the past two years, hundreds of articles have appeared in newspapers across America making the claim that the old religious right was moving left and that Barack Obama, with his religiously infused rhetoric and various "outreach efforts," was leading the charge. A year ago, David Kirkpatrick predicted the "evangelical crackup" on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. "Jesus Rode a Donkey: Why Republicans Don't Have the Corner on Christ," "Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America" and "Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right" are just three of the dozens of books released since 2004 that suggested that evangelicals were rethinking their loyalty to the Republican Party and conservatism in general. The new evangelicals, just in case anyone missed the storyline, were not so backward as to vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage. They were enlightened about the environment and favored government aid to the poor.
Well, whoever these new evangelicals were, they didn't show up at the polls on Tuesday.
John McCain won 74% of white born-again Protestants' votes.
I know this, every born again evangelical, true catholic (as opposed to cafeteria catholics), Pentecostal and fundamental believer has set their face like flint. We will suffer this thing. We will come and vote another day. The myth that true Christians will vote liberal after this little escapade is just that, a myth.
I am inspired and happy that among these new leaders are Palin, Huckabee and hopefully other strong Fiscal, Defense and Evangelical leaders will emerge.
As one of the latter group, we need the Fiscal and Defense conservatives. And Vice Versa.
McCain wasn't an evangelical in expression. Perhaps in practice. We never knew. And Fiscal? Not so much. And Defense. Yes. So one out of three I guess is about as good as he got.
About Sarah Palin there was never a doubt.
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