| American
Conservatism is dead: Is there a fix?
[Michelle
Malkin: Pay Per Click Conservative Lost in Obama Land]
We
are told conservatism is about fiscal responsibility.
Again, that's an empty slogan. Bush's conservatism, and
likewise McCain's, is the polar opposite of responsible
management of our money and resources. Bush has expended
the deficit far more than anyone in the postwar era. |
Sarah Palin
was an expensive clothes horse for conservatism. The
outfits cost $150,000 but her ideas were worthless. |
| According
to the Cato Institute, a free market think tank,
"Supporters and critics of the administration are
tripping over themselves to blame the deficit on tax cuts,
the war, and a slow economy. But the fact is we have
mounting deficits because George W. Bush is the most
gratuitous big spender to occupy the White House since
Jimmy Carter. One could say that he has become the 'Mother
of All Big Spenders.'"
We are told that conservatives are people with values,
as though centrists and liberals are rudderless idiots
with no moral compass. But let's buy that argument for a while and judge
conservatives by their words and actions. During the
election campaign, the conservative values we saw on
display, mainly from Sarah Palin, were nothing more than
ugly and manipulative attacks on her opponents.
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| aversion to
study, to reading, to intellect, to ideas, to travel, to
cooperation with allies. She hated anything that wasn't in
her slim Wasilla playbook.
She
slammed Obama as an elitist because he studied at Columbia
and Harvard, earning good degrees while Palin palled
around at lesser schools, struggling to earn a bachelor's
degree in journalism.
She preached of the need for smaller government, while
as governor of Alaska she presides over something akin to
a socialist state with annual oil dividends -- tax on oil
companies -- paid to its residents.
Palin has been a big chaser of earmarks, even wanting a
bridge to nowhere until she realized the federal
government would not foot the bill.
She shouted herself blue in the face about the need for
small town values, humility, the virtues of frugality. It
was all a bluff of course. When given the opportunity to
spend $150,000 of someone else's money on outfits,
make-up, shoes, and suits for her husband and clothes for
the kids, she rushed to Neiman Marcus like a crazed junkie
desperate for a fix.
She smiled and defended her faith, the one
that commands us to love our neighbor, and then employed any dirty trick to discredit Barrack Obama. Lies,
distortions, fabrications, and innuendo, all were
acceptable in Palin's win-at-any-cost strategy.
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