[an amused spectator]

Paul obviously follows FR online and offline activity on a cursory level.

Didn't I hallucinate something about a "Sore Loserman" bumper sticker during the 2000 election? The conservatives must have grown that thing in a petri dish, or something. ;-)

[hchutch]

Or those "Get out of Cheney's house chants?"

They sure had an effect on Gore...

The fact is, conservatism is changing, partially as a peractical matter, but also due to the fact that unlike the progressives, it is willing to reasses itself based on the results or lack of them.

The best example of this is welfare. The Left wanted to continue throwing money at the problems. The Right wanted to FIX the broken system. The Right eventually got the fixes, and they are getting some results, but they are going back to make the system fulfill its role even better and in a much more cost-effective manner.

The Right is learning the power of incrementalism and they have, for the most part, stopped letting perfect be the enemy of good enough. There is still work to be done on this in some issues, but I remain optimistic about the future of the conservative movement.