Sarah Palin's
anti-intellectual rants combined with her lack of knowledge on any
non-Alaskan issue made a fool of American conservatism. Palin
is waiting for God's signal on 2012.
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Conservatism's
Heavy Election Defeat
[Michelle
Malkin and Pay Per Click Punditry: Conservatives in Crisis]
American conservatism is ailing. We'd like to think it's dead.
Conservatism was trounced at the polls by Obama's message of hope
that recognizes America is changing and wants to change. America
no longer means all-white, all-Christian, all-suburban, all
traditional values. That was a pretend America, a conservative
nightmare peddled for years and years, even accepted, though it
was blatant nonsense. America is multi-faith, multi-ethnic,
multi-value and, despite the overturning of same sex marriage in
California, it is a country that is becoming more tolerant of
alternative lifestyles, alternative ways of defining family.
America is a nation that
allows individuals to make of their lives what they wish without
evangelicals and traditionalists wagging fingers of disapproval at
them. [continues below] |
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| John
McCain and Sarah Palin's erratic and often ugly election
campaign dealt a deadly blow to conservatism. The GOP is a party
in serious trouble.
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Republicans Killed Conservatism
[Michelle
Malkin's Pay Per Click Punditry: Conservative Bloggers Lost in Obama
Land]
President George Bush, an evangelical conservative, has had eight
years to prove to us that conservatism works.
We expected small government, spending under control, at least
minimal attempts to tackle the deficit, an expansion of individual
liberty, rising prosperity, and growing respect for conservatism's
fundamental ideals.
In fact, we witnessed the exact opposite. Bush turned the GOP and
conservatism into vehicles for big government, wasteful spending, and
erosion of civil liberties.
He all but killed conservatism in America. It is now a bankrupt
movement devoid of ideas, with no clue how to dig itself out of its
deep, dark hole.
No amount of bleating from Rush Limbaugh and his army of extremists
will save it. Conservative must transform itself or disappear from the
map.
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Rush
Limbaugh wants to narrow the focus, pushing the GOP further into
the wilderness. |
Over the next few months we are likely to hear conservative
pundits demand a return to basics or first principles.
Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt and the rest of the barmy army are going
to bash us over the heads with demands for a return to narrow,
judgmental, intolerant conservatism of the sort espoused by Sarah
Palin. |
| It seems a
simple enough solution, but it won't work. That type of
conservatism has run its course; people don't buy it anymore. They
see it for what it is: against freedom and for a narrow definition
of what it is to be American, i.e. white, suburban, and
evangelically Christian.
We can thank George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and their
cronies for dismantling so much of core conservatism, making it
nothing more than slogans with no content or value.
Bush preached small government while expanding big government
into every area of our lives, allowing our library lending habits
to be snooped upon, our emails to be monitored, our travel
patterns analyzed, and our patriotism questioned if it did not
coincide with the batten-down-the-hatches jingoism of Dick Cheney
, the brains behind Bush's bullying.
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