So this morning we already tripped down memory lane with Crazy Eileen and Delaware Liberal ‘s concern trolling from last year. Well, some conservatives are starting to see the light (why did it take this long?). From Balloon Juice, it’s another conservative self-reflection “It’s getting to be embarrassing to be a conservative.”
These days, however, the most prominent so-called conservatives are increasingly fit only to be cast for the next Dumb and Dumber sequel. They’re dumb and crazy.
Heehee. Can’t disagree with that one.
Let’s tick off ten things that make this conservative embarrassed by the modern conservative movement:
1. A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a — if not the — leading prospect for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential nomination.
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4. As Doug also observed, “The GOP controlled Congress from 1994 to 2006: Combine neocon warfare spending with entitlements, farm subsidies, education, water projects and you end up with a GOP welfare/warfare state driving the federal spending machine.” Indeed, “when the GOP took control of Congress in 1994, and the White House in 2000, the desire to use the levers of power to create “compassionate conservatism” won our over any semblance of fiscal conservatism. Instead of tax cuts and spending cuts, we got tax cuts along with a trillion dollar entitlement program, a massive expansion of the Federal Government’s role in education, and two wars. That’s not fiscal conservatism it is, as others have said, fiscal insanity.” Yet, today’s GOP still has not articulated a message of real fiscal conservatism.
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6. The anti-science and anti-intellectualism that pervade the movement.
7. Trying to pretend Afghanistan is Obama’s war.
8. Birthers.
9. Nativists.
10. The substitution of mouth-foaming, spittle-blasting, rabble-rousing talk radio for reasoned debate. Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and Hugh Hewitt are not exactly putting on Firing Line.
I’d like to see more than obscure bloggers, former Reagan officials and retiring/defeated Republicans call out Republicans on this. It’s a start though. Who will be the first credible voice in Republican circles to voice these sentiments? Who has the necessary trust from the movement to do it?