Have Conservatives Thrown in the Towel?

CFP ^ | May 23, 2005 | Alan Caruba

[MikeEdwards]

An interview with Pat Buchanan in the May 17 edition of The Washington Times has evoked a lot of discussion on the various message boards that self-identified conservatives visit. "The conservative movement has passed into history," said the three-time presidential candidate, commentator, and magazine publisher.

He’s right.

As a movement, a unifying force, the conservatism that mobilized people to vote in sufficient numbers to give control of Congress to Republicans in 1994 and, with the exception of eight years with Bill Clinton in office, has put Republicans in the White House has lost its momentum.

Since then, the Democrat Party has drifted so far to the left that it needs to change its name to something like, oh, the Socialist Party. Worse yet, what passes for the Republican Party today has drifted to the left with them. Not as far, but enough to become the party of Big Government and Big Spending.

And here’s where it gets fuzzy when one defines "conservatives." Much of Buchanan’s lament was devoted to the erosion of moral standards. "American culture has become toxic and poisonous," he said, referencing the garbage coming out of Hollywood and seen on television, although he also noted the reduction of the power of the States as enumerated in the Constitution. Today, the States are in the grip of the federal government thanks to sweeping judicial decisions that deny them the right to decide their own policies. . . . .

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Pessimism is not an attractive trait. It's cancerous, eating away at any and everything it touches.

When you are always the pessimist, don't be shocked that few rally around you.

[Tim Baugh]

Gosh i don't know. My family and I have recently given up TV because there was just too much violence and garbage. I used to live for action movies, until I had kids. Now, it's all just too violent, too much killing, too much cheating, too much everything.

What I don't know about it this - those shows are popular everywhere! Can someone find the ratings (I am not computer savvy) for Desperate Housewives or the CSI shows (how many dead children must they show?) in Oklahoma, Kansas, and South Carolina?

If we make what is happening to our children about Dems and Republicans, then we are going to lose our children - who cares about the politics!