[Constitution Day]

Ping.

[William McKinley]

I will read this in greater detail when I get more time later, but one part of this jumped out at me.

But it is worse. Conservatives are fighting each other on the front pages of their own magazines. National Review writer David Frum made the argument public with a banner denunciation of any conservative with reservations about the invasion of Iraq. Those conservative intellectuals and activists opposed or even those critical of it before the fighting or even those who mentioned that protecting Israel's interests could complicate matters were all labeled paleo-conservatives and pushed off to the nutty fringe. The only good guys remaining on the right were neo-conservatives. Frum named names, some of who differed on principle, but most simply saw the facts differently. He was so obsessed with his own righteousness in anathematizing heretics he was heedless of how the split would further weaken the forces of the right.

Anyone who thinks this battle was begun with Frum's piece is either being a bit disingenuous, or wasn't really paying attention. The name calling has gone on for years now, with certain factions eagerly trying to expand the fissure.

[William McKinley]

Reading a bit further, I am sure that despite my admiration for the ACU, I am unlikely to agree with much in this piece after a more careful reading.

its founding document, The Sharon (Connecticut) Statement,

Conservatism did not begin in 1960. It did not even begin in 1930. It has been with us all along.