It is your opinion. NR is not Bush fans at all. They do tend to come around and support the GOP nominee each cycle, but that is normally a no-brainer. Given the option.
NR articulates conservative thought fairly well. Not extreme. Grounded in politics, which is to say what is possible, not what may be desired in an ideal world.
It’s invaluable.
I’ve never believed in an ideal world-it is the stuff of fiction, just as much as liberal belief in a socialist paradise-I’ve been cynical from childhood, like pretty much my whole family. I held my breath and voted for Romney-and for McCain-but I wasn’t any happier than anyone else who embraces conservatism and limited government at having that bad a choice.
And I know a few people whose ideal world of limited government and conservatism is one where there is never any drugs, maybe no alcohol, the fed tells the states how to sell marriage licenses, no divorce and only G-rated TV-that is not my idea of limited government, freedom, or conservatism, for that matter-I’m a big believer in states’ rights-I’d prefer to see liberals live in liberal states, conservatives/the libertarian-leaning in other states-to each their own-and we’d see very shortly which system works best by which states had welfare riots and went into bankruptcy first...