re: #166 robdouth

I’m still of the belief that the conservative movement is worth saving. It seems around here that since right-wingers have become idiots, that you can throw the baby (conservatism as an idea) out with the bathwater. I’m still a conservative in the mold of Burke or Buckley, but without the calling people names for being gay if they piss me off. Sorry if you see it as poor rationalization, but it seems like a lot of people around here are using any reason no matter how little to just dump on the right, and I see no difference being made between ideological conservatism and the idiots who hijacked the party. Does anyone even acknowledge a difference. Most of these people don’t reach these conclusions because of their strong grounding in conservative principles but because of some warped hybrid of “the family” style religion and some ingrained isms that form some ugly right-wing thing.

There’s such a thing as “the face of the party”, and nowadays Burke and Buckley ain’t it. Conservatism at present is spent and leaderless. It’ll come back, it always does, so long as enough people value its best ideals. Just gotta soldier on through the current morass, and try to keep our heads.