The guy thinks conservatism means "lie back and enjoy it".
No. Sorry. He misunderstands the nature of American conservatism, which is not mere traditionalism and does not make a fetish of stability.
We're constitutionalists. The founders were revolutionaries who bought our system at the point of a gun. We believe in liberty, and we're not going to let the Obamists have their way just in the name of civil stability.
Liberty upturns applecarts on all sides just by its very nature. Constitutionalism defends your right to build and create and prosper or fail, which sets the stage for the most dynamic society on the face of the earth. Its the marxists who want to sink the earth into a feudal stasis, not us. Its the marxists who fear liberty and all the messiness that comes with it. Not us, thats the sea we swim in.
Excellent remarks on the article.
I posted it on my blog:
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2010/03/radical-republican-tea-partiers.html
The author - a typical Leftist - applies the European definition of “conservative” which is “reactionary.”
As you point out, it is the Marxists (Progressives) who are the true reactionaries since they would turn the clock back to feudalism with themselves as lords living in the castle with the rest of us their serfs who are expected to labor the day away quietly for the Lord & Master.
Therefore, American conservatives are in fact radicals and revolutionists who love to jump in and swim in the stormy waters of a dynamic society were free minds and free markets rule.