[expat1000]

"What the "mainstream" conservatives fear most of all is a drift to the right. Some of this is the whimper of whipped dogs. Every party to the right of Stalin has had to spend decades fending off accusations that it was the second coming of the Third Reich, the KKK and Genghis Khan. The Pavlovian training has taken hold and every conservative echelon is expert at going into damage control mode when it senses that its own right might do something that would give the left fuel for their accusations."

[expat1000]

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[G Larry]

In the beginning there was “right” and “wrong”, and we’ve been compromising in the “wrong” direction ever since.

[dead]

Excellent article, though depressing.

I live in NJ, in the NYC media market, and see this all the time.

I remember Al D'Amato being fairly conservative, but then shying away from those positions to try to win favor with NY's liberal voters and the NY Times editorial board.

His move to the left was rewarded with defeat to Chuckie Schumer and he was sentenced to political irrelevancy. Last time I heard from him, he was shilling for the rights of internet poker outfits.

Chris Christie is the new poster boy for the enemies to the right Republican. They love the happy ending massages the media gives them when they attack conservatives. Unfortunately for them, they need to win office against liberal Democrats and they look like milquetoast indecisive grovelers when they face that battle. And their fawning media buddies give them the shiv everytime.

[agere_contra]

it was the second coming of the Third Reich, the KKK and Genghis Khan

The Third Reich was explicitly socialist, and the KKK was explicitly Democrat.

Also I doubt Genghis Khan was in favor of small government.

Greenfield is right. Conservatives need to push the hell back on these lazy labels.

[PapaBear3625]

Put more succinctly, the job of the Republican Establishment is to maintain the pretense that there is opposition to the Left, while not actually doing anything to roll back the Left.

Their power and money comes from being somebody their constituents can go to, to get around this or that regulation. If the Left was actually rolled back, there would be less “protection” money they could extract. The money and power of the members of the GOP-e comes from their being legislators in the minority. They DON’T WANT the Presidency. Having the Presidency would make them accountable.

[Defiant]

This is a wonderful piece.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I'm glad I did a search, as I was about to post this from Jewish Press.

Bump.

[SaraJohnson]

Thus conservative movements and parties cannibalize themselves.

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No kidding!!!!!