When I said Dreher respects Plain, I didn’t mean he favored her especially amongst the pack of Republican candidated. I just meant he did not trash her for her sex, her motherhood, or her conservative values as such. He may have had a solid critique of what she had to offer as a candidate -— without disrespecting her.
The guy is a nutcase, and worked for Mondale.
“”Amy Sullivan of Time magazine and Rod Dreher of The Dallas Morning News examine the growing appeal of Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama.””
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/1194817109967/bloggingheads-politics-as-unusual.html
Noah Millman observes that by most measures, Barack Obama is a conservative. Excerpt: **In the core areas of policy, the goal of the Obama Administration has been the preservation of the status quo, and where the Obama Administration has sought to move longstanding Democratic priorities, it has generally done so with an eye to minimally disturbing existing economic and political arrangements.**
I think this is basically right, and this is why I have such a difficult time getting worked up about Obama. A conservative friend said to me the other day that if Obama was re-elected, we might lose America. He was totally serious. I dont get this at all. I would much rather have Obama running US foreign policy than Mitt Romney. On the economy, with regard to the outsize power of the banks, Obama has been too Republican.””