re: #124 HappyWarrior

To me though the problem with conservatism at least in the US is that it’s become about social conservatism above all else. You can’t make it far as a conservative elected official in this country without staking out some quite conservative views on the social issues. Jim DeMint of Heritage and also kingmaker for many a Republican Senate candidate these days has flat out said you cannot be fiscally conservative without being socially conservative. And while that’s not true in the literal sense, it is I suppose in the sense that you have to be both socially conservative and fiscally so if you have any hope of making it in national politics as a Republican. What the few moderate conservatives left need to do is come up with a solid response to the nutjobs.

I don’t have to live in the electoral or rhetorical world he is so powerful in. Thank heavens. I live in the real world. Unelectable.