Norman Bates: “Sometimes just holding the tide in the face of overwhelming onslaught is enough.”
Conservative leaders have been doing mostly that for the past 60 years, and you can see where that has gotten us.
Let me put it this way. Defense is almost always a loser’s game. That’s just fact. All the liberals have to do is win an occasional victory while we try to hold the line, and the country moves left. It may be small steps or big steps, but we still lose.
Well, most of our guys are on defense. If any of them truly believe in conservatism, they aren’t articulating it well or fighting hard to advance it. Most of them are just holding the line, but why? What has it gotten us? Not much.
Why? In this case he was governing Massachusetts, that’s why. For better or worse it’s the nature of conservatism to conserve not to revolt. What we need are more reformist conservatives. I’d say the way Romney tackled his business ventures and the Olympics that he very well may be one of them.