Posted on 02/22/2013 12:02:52 PM PST by Mozilla
One reads S.E. Cupp on Rush Limbaugh and the late Lee Atwater and has to wonder.
One reads her compatriot young conservative friends in the New York Times and has to wonder.
Do these conservatives even listen to themselves?
Are they really conservatives — or just the latest, newest incarnation of that age old 20th century invention: the GOP moderate? The newest sparkling edition of a wannabe Ruling Class? Making the rounds of the bar scene in Manhattan and New York and longing to be hip?
Or are we witnessing something else? Something simpler yet more troubling?
A lack of historical awareness of conservatism. Are we seeing young conservatives who seem not to have grasped conservatism whole? Who do not understand the seamless thread that binds conservative values as a way of life, from the Constitution to gay marriage and abortion to free market economics and dealing with Al Qaeda?
Young conservatives who have a lack of perspective of both conservatism’s intellectual foundation and in this case the ferocious politics that swirl constantly around its most prominent champions? With apologies to the late Allan Bloom and his 1987 bestseller (The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students), are we witnessing a freezing of the conservative mind? (Note: Ex-Bush aide Pete Wehner has conjured the freezing metaphor in a slightly different way over at Commentary.)
First, let’s deal with the Rush business.
As mentioned earlier this week, the New York Times Magazine cover story on a group of young GOP techies and commentators — of which Ms. Cupp is a leading member — was discussed in this space.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
S.E. Cupp?
Really,
By this point, if you are not aware she is a media whore akin to Tila Tequila, then you deserve your oppression by the masses upon the liberties of your minority.
Very well put. I was watching Stossel and I listen to what these young “libertarians” have to say and for the most part, if pot is legalized, most of them would just go away.. As a herd, they are a one-trick pony.
There are a few that actually make sense and I think leadership needs to take a turn towards true libertarianism but they (as a group) will always be about making themselves feel better and democrats know this. Legalize dope and most will return to their leftist roots, as long as they can keep getting the righteous weed.
Ratings whore. Attacking Rush for ratings when there is no viable content to her dribble.
All the slacking low information media types on MSNBC do it, for ratings.
That means to give up principles and to become pragmatists.But a principle is not a luxury. It is the essence of man's way of dealing with the future consequences of his actions, of knowing what they are, and thereby not leaving his long-range goals to chance. Principled action is action based on man's means of coping with reality, which are conceptual means, and conceptual understanding of how to achieve his end.
There were times when I thought she was conservative and there were times where I just shook my head in disbelief.
We gotta deal with that every generation.
I remember when Kennedy was shot- when I tell my kids about that they act like I must have been around when Lincoln was shot too.
I dont remember WWII.
My dad didnt rememeber WWI
We are dealing with voters who were born AFTER Pong, Donkey Kong, and Pacman existed.
No more reliable way to get ratings than to be a “conservative” and have the “courage” to diss Rush.
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