[Bush Revolution]

I get the WND points, but I don't see how it helps his argument complaining about JTP or average Americans speaking their mind. It was JTP that got him to admit the whole "spread the wealth around" comment. Not Peggy, KP or David Frum. What do you think?

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[Perdogg]

Wm F Buckley Jr supported McCain in the primary. Does the Author know this?

[ElayneJ]

I guess I’m too “nutty” to be a conservative now, if conservatism means acting like a leftist wannabee, disregarding the wishes of the American people, and ignoring the laws of the land. Alright.

[old curmudgeon]

It was exactly this kind of thinking that lost the election to Obummer, the Fascist.

Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin took the republican ticket perhaps 20% higher than it would have been otherwise.

Obviously my 20% statement is a guess based on discussions with friends, but I have seen numbers similar by those who are professionals in the arena.

So establishment repubs; pooh pooh Palin and JTP and the likes and throw the next election away. You certainly have demonstrated that you have a gift for throwing opportunity out the window.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Flush the elitist RINO scum. Palin/Plumber 2012.

[roses of sharon]

Yawn, just more “intellectuals” showing their bigotry.

They simple cannot stand it when they are not in charge, their squealing and sniveling is unseemly.

I'm embarrassed for them.

[MNJohnnie]

This is EXACTLY why they are a minority party. They have adopted the inside the beltway elitist mindset of the Democrat Party machine.

So instead of talking about how absurd it is for the radical fringe of the Democrat party, people like 09-11 "truth-er" Van Jone, to be running the Democrat party, the RINO clown posse wring their hands and whine about mythical "right wing fringe running the Conservative movement".

No, this is the American people in action. What is fringe is these Democrat lite types (Frum, Noonan Brooks, et al) who fraudulently claim to be "Conservatives".

[thecabal]

Here's a better version of this article.

[Mr Rogers]

I think this fellow is either too young or too stupid to remember how the media treated Reagan. They savaged him daily as too stupid and too unqualified to be President. They hated and ridiculed him - because he was effective.

While WFB was effective in spreading ideas - and I admire what he did - he had near zero influence on elections and power. That is why the NE liberals didn’t mind him. He wasn’t a threat to their immediate power.

If you want to know who is capable of challenging the liberals, look to the ones they attack without mercy.

[LibFreeOrDie]

the time is ripe for a return to Buckleyite elite conservatism.

Sure, just what we need. /s

What is it about these guys that hate regular folks, like Joe The Plumber? Joe stood up to Obama. I don't remember any elite conservatives doing that.