I Think You’re Going to Need More than One Conservative There, Slate.
OK, you lose some battles, but you fight on. It’s time to develop a conservative game plan for the next several years. I think, at the outset, that a wide variety of voices are essential.
Slate is hosting a two-day discussion of the conservative future among a polyglot group of right-of-center types: Tucker Carlson, Ross Douthat, Douglas W. Kmiec, Kathleen Parker, Christine Todd Whitman, and me.
With all due respect to Jim Manzi, whose writings I enjoy and whose thinking I respect, there isn’t a serious conservative besides him in that group. Douglas Kmiec, whose entire support of Barack Obama lay in trying to convince the rest of us that a man who voted for infanticide was somehow really, secretly a foe of abortion? Kathleen Parker whose support for Obama rested on her contempt for Sarah Palin and any inbred, backwoods yokel who likes her? Ross Douthat, whose prescription for the conservative future involves finding new ways of buying off the populace with entitlement programs and left of center feel good nostrums?
And the whole thing is hosted by Slate magazine??
Come on, now. If you’re going to develop a conservative game plan, you should probably bring more than one serious conservative to the table.
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- Let the Spinning Begin!
- Now They’re Just Lying About Her
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Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., Political Pontifications, The Rise of the Nanny State
