[FairOpinion]

If this had been written by a left wing loonie, I wouldn't have posted it. But it was written by a former speechwriter of Reagan and Nixon, who presumably considers himself a conservative.

Which leads me to ask -- what on earth is the matter with him? Is he channeling Howard Dean? It sure sounds like it.

[AmishDude]

His thesis isn't bad, but his ludicrous rantings on WMD's are out of the deepest darkest depths of moonbatism.

[GladesGuru]

Note with care the college where the author teaches. Dartmouth is hardly a bastion of what Scfalia would call "Originalist" thought or academic activity..

[MNJohnnie]

Lots of senile old Paleos cannot grasp the concept that you defeat an enemy by killing him, not ignoring him. The really sad thing is the author is the one mindlessly clinging to his ideology. Just another Dinaosur Conservative who is refusing to evolve to deal with the realities of a changing world. Author seems to find the post 9-11 world too emtionally painful to deal with so clings to his comfortable assumptions and false premises rather then deal with it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Bush is not a conservative. He has bushwhacked the term. He is a right-wing ideologue.

We wish! LOL!

[Tailgunner Joe]

I always get annoyed when people rant against "ideologues." Conservatism is an ideology, just like every other -ism. People who have no ideology are those mushy indecisive "moderates" who are simply too uninformed to have an opinion about anything.

[CheyennePress]

How can you write so assuredly about weapons not beig in Iraq with the tapes that have recently surfaced?

[CowboyJay]

"Yet free-market economics pushed to exclude other worthy goals becomes an ideology."

Agree with this much.

[Chi-townChief]

President Bush has always been a centrist - this right-wing ideologue crap is just something that the left-wing jackasses dreamed up.

[marron]

I call pants-on-fire.

The writer is pro-abortion. He is in favor of marketing fetuses. He's against privatizing Social Security. He's against the war.

Bush is not a conservative ideologue, as some said, we could only wish. But compared to this guy, he's as good as could hope for on at least several of the issues of the day.

We went into Iraq to hang Saddam. We won. Saddam is finished.

Sadly, abortion is still legal. But the constitutional justification for it is built upon a fiction. Bush is helping to overthrow that fiction by putting constitutionalists on the court. If the writer is conservative, how does he oppose constitutionalist judges?

Sadly, while Bush is against marketing fetal tissue, he did not outlaw fetal research. This writer is a professor, how does he not know that? Bush disallowed the use of federal money for fetal research. Any pharmaceutical company, any university can kill all the fetuses they want, as long as they do it with private money.

And Bush failed to create a national 401K. I'm not sure a national 401K is a conservative goal, but it has to be closer to conservative values than the present Social Security system.

This writer is no conservative.

[woofie]

Reagan wasnt really Reagan either....


note: he put O'Conner on the court which was very un-Reagan of him

[georgia2006]

""Bush is not a conservative. He has bushwhacked the term. He is a right-wing ideologue."'

and here I was thinking Bush was a RINO who betrayed the Reagan legacy.

What is it about GWB that drives people, both left and right insane

[Yardstick]

Ideology is the enemy of conservatism because it edits, omits or ignores reality.

So what's the difference between being ideological and being principled?

[Uncle Miltie]

And evidence is mounting that the intelligence used to bolster the claims for Iraq's WMD was cherry-picked, politically pressured and, to use intelligence expert Thomas Powers' word, "fabricated."

Not True.

The evidence is mounting that the WMD were moved to Syria.

[UNflagburner]

And evidence is mounting that the intelligence used to bolster the claims for Iraq's WMD was cherry-picked, politically pressured and, to use intelligence expert Thomas Powers' word, "fabricated." What? No mention of the Downing Street Memo? His leftie friends at Dartmouth will be dissappointed. But on a more interesting note, he actually does a decent job of pointing out why Bush IS a conservative: Fights the terrorists and won't cut and run when things get difficult in Iraq. Shares Reagan's beleif that people across the world desire liberty, and that America will be safer when they get it. Stands up for life here; and yes there are people who like abortion, namely the ones who benefit economically from not having to raise children. Does his best to remove and replace socialist ponzi schemes. If only Congress would follow suit.

[zook]

The whole ball of wax falls apart when you realize that were RR alive today, he'd be very proud of President Bush. In fact, he is right now.

[verity]

Opinions are similar to anal orifices. Everyone has one.

[MarkL]

Something I've been wondering about, when it comes to people on all sides of the political spectrum claiming that Iraq has become a quagmire, a colossal failure, because it's taking so long...

I wonder if any of them know when the Declaration of Independence (of the United States of America) was signed. If so, I wonder if any of them know when the Constitution was ratified. Or if they know when President George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States.

Or if we don't want to go back quite so far... When was VE day, signaling the end of WWII in Europe. When did the US troops pull out of Germany, and the rest of theEuropean theater? When was VJ day? When did the US troops pull out of Japan and the rest of the Pacific theater?

I wonder how history might be different today had the press, as well as the rest of these "monday morning quarterbacks" had been writing their drivvel either back in the 18th century, or in the 1940s... My guess is that we'd be speaking different languages today.

Mark

[Jason_b]

Good that you posted this. Nothing is wrong with Hart. It matters not one iota that he is at Dartmouth college, Hart is a token Conservative there. He is watching Bush not protect the borders, sign every spending bill Congress hands him, and nation build in Iraq. And he asks, would a true conservative do this? Reasonable people can disagree, but I notice the ad hominems start with post 2. Bush is a new world order globalist, no more, no less. We are getting the new world order whether we like it or not. Every President we will get from here on out will be a new world order globalist, count on it. There will be no more Washingtons, Jeffersons or founding fathers types in general forthcoming. The Constitution and all that flows from it will never be more than a meaningless piece of paper to any future President. They'll pretend to revere the Constitution but it'll always be a ruse. One day there will be a global body of laws, global currency, and the United States will be no more than a province in the global confederation...as VA is to the US, or Fairfax is to VA. We will pay global taxes that are actually called global taxes. There will be global gun control. It will be necessary for our grandchildren to learn Spanish because the growing Latino reconquista la raza movement will insist on it. Think I'm crazy? Do you think any 18th or 19th political observer would be considered sane for predicting the stuff that goes on today? Call me a moonbat if you want but what I'm predicting is being prepared for us already. Have a nice day.