2. The National Review printed scrawl by Deroy Murdock telling us that homosexualizing the military is a good idea: therefore the conservative position is that homosexualizing the military is a good idea?
3. There is more to the debate than foreign policy. Domestic policy looms large and the current crowd is wrong about nearly (spending, immigration, retaining Clinton institutional devolutions) everything.
2. This conservative thinks that homosexuals can serve usefully as bullet catchers in the front lines as long as they refrain from molesting fellow soldiers and know their place. I never read that article of Murdock's. National Review is far wiser than Chronicles but not quite infallible.
3. To update a famous saying of Ronaldus Maximus regarding the soviets and applying it to islamofascisti as another enemy of the USA, teach your children to speak Arabic and to worship at your local mosque. They will need these skills in case the paleopantywaists ever wind up running the military and foreign policy of the USA. This is the legacy that paleos are advancing.
4. I know that I am in the minority around here on the immigration but I don't feel one bit threatened by the influx of more socially conservative folks from south of our border coming here for a better life. In about three generations when they recover from their anger at the ignorance opposing their entry to our country, we will discover that they are far more valuable to America than Junior Leaguers, polo pony obsessives, paleopantywaists or coupon clippers. Not only are Latinos less likely to sit still for abortion or homosexuality or other perversions but they show a marked willingness to join our military and to fight in our wars. Even such despicables as Planned Barrenhood Pete Wilson respect those last two items. He said so on C-SPAN just this morning on Washington Journal.
5. Spending????? You can't be serious. I would certainly vote to cut spending if I were in Congress but neither you nor I will live long enough to see actual cuts. We live in a country in which liberal suggest a 50% increase in spending for any program, federal, state, local, interplanetary or whatever and when conservatives trim the increase to a 40% increase, the Demonrats and the pseudoGOP Mugwumps scream that the program is being slashed to the bone. Like St. Francis of Assisi, pray for the fortitude to accomplish what you can, the sense to refrain from wasting energy and resources on unattainable goals and the wisdom to know the difference.
6. What on earth is a "Clinton institutional devolution???" It has the word Clinton in it and so I probably agree with you on this but I'd like to know what I am agreeing with.
7. Paleos are also moonbatici maximi.
8. I note that you seem not to notice Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito as relevant to domestic policy. Two more justices of that sort would do more for legitimate domestic agendas of conservatism than would ten thousand congressional votes on spending bills.
9. On spending, just you wait until the imminent retirement of baby boomers (and they vote) because, as jazz singer Al Jolson used to say, you ain't seen nothin' yet. We will probably see travelcare to guarantee all expense paid vacations for aging boomers, poochicare for their pets paid for by those still working, entertainmentcare to cover the rising cost of movie tickets and popcorn, snugglecare to provide federal, ummmm, COYOTE sex workers to tend to the, ummmm, needs, of, ummmm, seasoned citizens otherwise unindulged and the establishment of the tomb end of womb-to-tomb everything.
10. Babykilling and fudgie make-believe "marriage" are domestic concerns. So is each additional moment of gummint misedjamakashun. So are special laws for special people. So are "fisting" classes in gummint skewels. The prudent recognize that money may not be the root of all evil but it is also not everything. Of course, we will all be upset when the shuttered no-tell motel in town is acquired by the Board of Miseducation as the new, ummmm, "hands-on" performance laboratory for a dramatically expanded sex education program.
11. AND, ummm, even if there IS more to the debate than foreign policy, how many 9/11s do you think we should endure before using the military to kick some anti-American patoot?????
Bump. And that is only the start of the list. Their notion of wholesale catering to the left in a brazen triangulation scheme has backfired time after time, after time.
It went so far as to debase consensus on how...or even whether... to maintain party unity...
The Base put up with it only so long, and now the crowd in the White House is reaping what they have sown. The whirlwind is sucking them down. And they don't get it.
There is no such thing as "Political Center"...as Rush Limbaugh has long said. This a massive rejection of their obvious liberal world view....and the resultant policies and defamations they spew out.
Robert Novak caught sight of this, and advised the White House basically to wake up way back in 2002. What most of us never expected, and Novak himself never counted on, was that the current crowd in the White House truly are more hard-core Rockefellerian idealogues than they are pragmatists. As W has shown definitively...he would rather undermine the party than represent its values. He is at war with the base, as even Mark Steyn has hinted when he openly observed that Bush "wonders if he really does like the Base at all."