The Devolution of American Conservatism

One of the great strengths of Buckley's conservatism was that it did not suffer fools.  

The greatest weakness of Glenn Beck's and Sarah Palin's conservatism is that it suffers nobody but Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

As my conservative friends continue to swell the ranks of Tea Parties and to continue to promulgate poisonous thinking, I hope they'll consider what has happened to them, and to consider too that there are some versions of America not worth living in or defending. Some of those are the monster-children of conservatism.

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These Republicans

Updated on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:15AM by Otter

It's not that they're Republicans... It's that they're these Republicans. You know the ones: the ones for whom opposition to abortion and taxes are a vague creed instead of a clearly articulated principle, and for whom amateurism is a recommendation.

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Jim Wallis Discusses The Tea Party

A lot of that debate generally has its root in a simple perception about what government is and can be and can do.  I don't mean merely that it's a matter of how much one trusts government, but rather that how one thinks about and perceives government will tend to predetermine how he feels about its role.

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