Wow, you are something. You even ignored his rejection of the Catholic religious teachings and his leaving the Catholic denomination. You must really, really, dislike Palin to embrace this guy and his opinions so completely.
“”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
The Conservative Obama
By ROD DREHER • August 22, 2012, 1:05 PM
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 don’t 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.””
A non-sequitur. This has nothing to do with the question at hand. The question I took up with you was whether Dreher is a nutcase liberal. He is not; and it has nothing to do with the fact that he went from Baptist to Catholic to Orthodox. I have in fact taken this up with him personally, which is, I suspect, a great deal more than you have done.
"You must really, really, dislike Palin to embrace this guy and his opinions so completely."
Your statements are unfactual.
For the first, you are imputing attitudes to me that I do not hold. Palin is the only, singular, candidate I have voted for warmly and with pleasure in the past 6 years.
For the second, I do not embrace Rod's views completely, nor do I reject them completely.
I do defend him from the charge that he is a "nutjob liberal". It would be slanderous if it were not eye-rollingly ridiculous. You do yourself no credit for pushing such nonsense.
You would be much more convincing if you would argue principles, platforms, and policies rather than personalities. But if "ad-hominem" is your preferred mode, have at it: but leave me out of it.
I really don't wish to hear from you again.