Monday, October 29, 2007

Soul Brother

In an overheated column on what it means to be a conservative, Pat Buchanan says accepting Rudy Giuliani means the Right is selling its soul in exchange for power.

Buchanan, who has been fighting against the Republican party for quite a while now, may fancy himself a conservative, but, unlike Ronald Reagan, he apparently doesn't believe in that big a tent. Pat, who opposes free trade and has views on foreign affairs at odds with the majority of conservatives, better watch out or he might find himself on the wrong side of the flap. (In fact, it's rather arrogant he thinks he can judge who gets the conservative mantle).

The meaning of conservative and liberal has changed regularly through the years--even the core values aren't that easy to define. If Rudy can't be considered part of the Right, even as he moves to the center on some social issues, then I'd have to say that today's conservatism is so brittle perhaps it deserves to break.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hopefully this is another in a series of "The Irrelevance of the Ideologues." With the shriekers on both sides caught up religiosity over their particular belief system, it seems voters will choose based upon less partisan concerns- i.e. will this candidate take specific positions (and be able to implement them) which are better for the country (i.e. the voter) in the next four years

5:15 AM, October 29, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You must be kidding, anonymous.

I gather your position is "Let's find someone who will Do Good. Enough of these pigs who Do Bad."

Controversial, that.

SWMBCg, etc.

8:00 AM, October 29, 2007  

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