Style, Substance and Conservatism

http://redhotright.blogspot.com/ ^ | 2009-03-01 | Red-Hot Right

[redhotright]

I didn't attend the CPAC conference, but, thanks to the Internet, I got to see a lot of the speeches. Thoroughly loved a lot of what I saw. Rush's speech was spot on. And Ann Coulter had me laughing so hard my ribs hurt. Some excellent speeches from quite a few others well: Jonathan Krohn, Mike Huckabee, etc..

One of the things I noticed before CPAC was that people kept talking about "redefining conservatism". But I kept asking myself over and over... why would we need to redefine conservatism? What's wrong with it that makes it out of touch? But that's just the problem... we don't need to redefine it at all, and it is not out of touch. Conservatism is still relevant.

So what is the problem, then? Several of the speakers at CPAC answered this question very well. Part of the problem is that many politicians have lost sight of what conservatism is. Another part of the problem is that as society changed, how we present our values to America hasn't changed. We don't need to redefine conservatism, we need make sure that our politicians accurately reflect our values and we need to redefine how we present our values to the rest of the country. We shouldn't try to coax liberals into becoming conservatives. We should try to win Americans to conservatism.

It is a sad fact that the majority of Americans don't pay that much attention to politics. Liberals take advantage of this and present themselves as middle-of-the-road centrists. Unfortunately this act gets them votes.

For this reason, it is important for conservatives...

[anniegetyourgun]

Yeah...style....that’s the ticket.