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Amazing! Just amazing, I tell you. In a twist on the usual propaganda theme, they bend so as to show real conservatives are against the saving of Terri's life. To swallow their load, real conservatives would want innocent Terri killed and abhor those unreal conservatives who would wish to save her life. That is how lefties bend the truth.

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The funny thing is, I agree. Stack the traditional definition of ''conservative'' alongside the events of the last few years, and it's hard not to. It is, for example, difficult to find evidence of government getting out of people's way in the Terri Schiavo affair. Or evidence of lean, mean government efficiency in the Hurricane Katrina debacle. Or evidence of fiscal restraint in a projected $500 billion budget deficit. Or evidence of foreign policy pragmatism in the invasion of a country that had not attacked us and did not threaten to. Or evidence of accountability in the eagerness to duck blame for all the above.

Conservatism, an ideology once driven by principle, has shrunk until its purview can be, and often is, delineated in three syllables: God, guns, gays. Worse, it has embraced a win-at-all-costs ethos and intellectual dishonesty that are, even by the seamy standards of modern politics, astonishing....

Pitts: Principled conservatives sat silent while their party was hijacked

8mm