Nope, I ain't buyin. He condemns the Left without truly breaking from it.
He doesn't really want to leave the Roach Motel, that's what jumps out at me. He wants to stay. He wants the left to Change Their Ways so he can stay.
But it won't, and he can't really decide what to do except issue this wringing of hands.
He doesn't have the guts to leave the temple and become a conservative.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Not yet. What was one expecting, though, a Saul-On-The-Road type conversion? ;-) Have patience.
When leaving a room, one must first open a door.
He condemns the Left without truly breaking from it.At the very least, it's a step away from the idiot-Left. Leftism attracts so many morons that every so often intelligent and decent people that subscribe to some of its tenets (yes Virginia, they do exist) have to wash their beliefs out with soap. It's much like the steps the modern conservative movement had to take away from the racists and the Conspiracy crowd a few decades ago.
At best, its a movement towards reality. I'm sure at some point both P. J. O'Rourke and David Horowitz went through a stage like this.
-Eric
He doesn't really want to leave the Roach Motel, that's what jumps out at me. He wants to stay. He wants the left to Change Their Ways so he can stay.
He wants to stay for the social life. It's similar to why many of us in the 70's played the guitar -- it was for the chicks as much as for the music -- and we didn't argue with success on that point.