[FlingWingFlyer]

Low ebb? Some would call it, the calm before the storm.

[new yorker 77]

Clueless does not being to describe this nitwit.

[cripplecreek]

I have my doubts. In fact the writer seems to be experiencing a bit of denial.

[rottndog]

Isn't that just like a conservative, to be always looking to the past to make sense of the present?

Yeah, it's called remembering history so as not to repeat it. Conservatives need to remember that when they govern as conservatives, they win. When they try to govern like big-government liberal democrats, they lose.

[Crawdad]

Please see the results of the recent Pennsylvania elections.

[zarf]

rotflol...

i can smell a major bust for the dems in nov.

with all the hype of disaster for the pubs, one can safely predict the nov elections will be underwhelming for them at the very least.

[EyeGuy]

Perhaps a low ebb amongst its alleged "leadership".

The bedrock rank and file seems quite healthy thank-you, this Forum being Exhibit A.

[clintonh8r]

He seems to be confusing conservatives' perceived opposition to immigration with our actual opposition to illegal immigration.

[MNJohnnie]

Low ebb? IN case the fool missed it, Conservatives are within one vote and a Senate Majority Leader of controlling all 3 branches of the Fed Government for the 1st time since 1932. Frist resigning and a new Congress in 2007 are the Conservatives best chance ever. Considering 7 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices were born in the 1920s, Liberals should be VERY afraid.

[Wheee The People]

Does anyone think these children will forget how their families, their mothers and fathers, were treated once they grow up to become voters, as they surely will?

If they are back in Mexico, I could care less what they think...

[Mogollon]

Conservative crack-down in progress. Rino's and rats beware.

[AntiGuv]

When did rewarding criminality with welfare state entitlements become a 'conservative' value?

[Ed_in_NJ]

I guess he forgot to mention what a POS the rat party has become.

[Regulator]

Today's demagogues use the latest wave of immigrants to much the same effect

Um, in the 1850's, Catholics were no threat to outnumber Protestants anytime soon. Now, in Southern California alone, "white non-hispanics" will be a small minority in a generation. That is already a fact.

It is not "immigration" when 25-40% of a populous country leave that country and colonize another. It is, in fact, invasion.

And it is not immigration when hundreds of thousands of those people march in the streets of America under the flag of a foreign and hostile nation, while claiming the land and political power of America for themselves. That is sedition, treason, and an open declaration of war against the United States.

There are no "demagogues" on the Right on this issue. There is no historical precedent for anything like what is happening - a literal takeover of a country by what can only be called "immivasion". The only demagogues are those on the Left who refuse to allow any discussion of it, save to engage in name calling like "racist", or "nativist", or whatever idiot epithet they can hurl.

[HarleyLady27]

and the rats dream on, da la la, and the rats dream on.....

NOTHING in this WORLD would make a rat more happier than to be back in power...

[MBB1984]

Conservatives are certainly NOT divided. However, the Republicans are divided between the true conservatives and the RINOs.

[billbears]

Of course I'm talking about the state of American conservatism in 1854, when the Whigs were crumbling fast.

If the author by conservatism means the party of big government, the party of internal improvements, national banks, the party that would destroy federalism and centralize the power in Washington DC I suppose he is correct. If by conservatism he means the party of limited government he isn't talking about the Whigs or the early Republican party

[Huck]

Because we only have one credible party capable of national governance right now, all substantive debate takes place within that party.

[Smedley]

Conservatives are divided, dejected, and drifting, caught between anger and indecision. The political party they've made theirs is headed for setbacks in this year's congressional elections, and further defeats loom ahead.

I'm not drifting at all, nor caught between anger and indecision. The GOP is.

[mrsmith]

A delightful article but conservatism is at a hgh point now. We are in much the same ascendency as the liberals in the sixties. Politicial discourse is always between a conservative view and a moderate one. Liberals are at a low ebb.

And, as of now, there is no "liberal Buckley" preparing our undoing.

We may be divided between the "desperate" conservatives who think we should grab as much as possible before the tide turns, and the "method" conservatives who think we can conserve the momentum.