[Hatteras]

"...when I detected many conservatives beginning to care more about power than principles. The right began to seem less interesting to me--more whiny, more shallow--and, what's more, in what I saw as an uncritical devotion to President Bush, often in retreat from its best insights about human nature."

I noticed that you apparently slept through the 8 years of Bill and Hillary Clinton so it would be useless to discuss anything with such an open-minded individual as I'm sure you are.

Adios, my friend.

[Perlstein]

"...when I detected many conservatives beginning to care more about power than principles. The right began to seem less interesting to me--more whiny, more shallow--and, what's more, in what I saw as an uncritical devotion to President Bush, often in retreat from its best insights about human nature."

I noticed that you apparently slept through the 8 years of Bill and Hillary Clinton so it would be useless to discuss anything with such an open-minded individual as I'm sure you are.

Adios, my friend.
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Hatteras, I didn't sleep through the Clinton presidency. I often opposed it--as many on the left did. one of the frustrations with my dialogues with folks on FP is that people believe some fantasy that everyone on the left adored Bill Clinton.

Here's some of my critical articles about the Democratic status quo on trade issues and others (there are many more, but how much Perlstein can a fella stand to read???)

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0111/perlstein.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0203/perlstein.php

[zip]

The right began to seem less interesting to me--more whiny, more shallow--and, what's more, in what I saw as an uncritical devotion to President Bush, often in retreat from its best insights about human nature."

I noticed that you apparently slept through the 8 years of Bill and Hillary Clinton

Do you honestly feel that the conservatives were even 10% as devoted to President Bush as liberals were devoted to Clintoon? I haven't seen right wingers devoted to a rapist, liar, draft dodging POS. Maybe because President Bush isn't any of those things?