[randita]

How interesting that during the Bush 1 and 2 administrations, there was very little outpouring of name calling from “conservatives” over No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, crazy wars where we lost 5000 of our best in Iraq II and the “nation building” of the nuthouse called Afghanistan, the abandonment of no new taxes pledges, the trashing of Reagan’s legacy, etc.,

Au contraire. In many conservative circles, including FR, there was great objection to all the above you mention. If you did FR archival research, you would find vociferous opposition to NCLB and the RX drug expansion. Admittedly, the objection to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was not so much of the underlying principle but the fact that we were not in them to win them - until The Surge.

[laconic]

I’m talking about the mainstream conservative “commentariat” such as National Review, George Will, Kristol, etc. and NOT about FR or other sites.