I would have been satisfied without any progress whatsoever made in the last 5 years, but we haven't even maintained our original position, despite Republican Congresses and President.
I'll settle for a hell of a lot less than perfect. I won't settle for Medicare Part D, CFR, the huge spending increases and on and on--the hallmarks of socialist, statists. Don't attribute a false dichotomy to me. There is a huge area in between perfect conservatism and what the President and Congress have done in the last 5 years.
So...you're wrong. My post proves nothing except that the author is empty-headed.
Because if you are then you're betraying one of the few areas where conservatives have taken action.
As someone who has worked for and admired Pat Buchanan for calling out the Bush I administration I nonetheless find myself always in the strongest opposition to those who glorify 1940's isolationism that wanted us to run from the Nazi threat and that today keeps telling us the Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda would all be peaceful if it weren't for the fact that we sold fighter jets to Israel.
But I notice some disgruntled conservatives are rather socialistic in their criticisms of the Bush tax cuts as nothing more than corporate welfare for the rich.
That's sad because I've always agreed with George Will's observation that Middle Class Americans do not hate the rich - they want to BE the rich.
I point out Bush's tax cuts because the columnist writes that the conservative factions are not being cooperative in trying to advance the movement forward and I was noting that you will point out the bad without acknowledging the good (tax cuts and war on terrorism are 2 conservative highlights... unless you prescribe to the CNN/Air America mindset which is that these are both horrible setbacks for the U.S.)