Monday, August 14, 2006

What happened to the old fashioned conservatives?

Richard Doak of the Des Moines Register wrote an article about the death of conservatism.

The rise of the conservative movement was the biggest running story in American politics for the last half century. With relentless zeal, conservatives gradually won dominance in Congress and the courts. Bush's election represented the movement's ultimate triumph.

Since 2001, conservatives have been in total control - and have watched almost everything go wrong, with no one to blame but themselves.
And the need of old fashioned conservatism to return.
America needs a strong conservative presence. We need conservatives who believe in fiscal soundness, that two plus two equals four and that debt is undesirable. We need conservatives who honor tradition and caution against rushing into thoughtless change. We need conservatives who want a strong military, but who are reluctant to commit forces to foreign adventures. We need conservatives who are pro-business and want low taxes but who believe in the obligation of the fortunate among us to give back to the country that has blessed them.

In other words, the country needs conservatism as it used to exist in America. Amid the failure of today's voodoo conservatism, traditional conservatives should take back the Republican Party and provide it.

It is these kinds of conservatives that you can have a discussion with and actually come up with a compromise. The conservatives of today operate on an ideology, not a political philosophy that see compromise as undermining their "values." So I ask, where are the old fashioned conservatives?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They're busy arresting people who protest the IRS with handheld fliers:

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noneed4thneed said...

The old fashioned conservatives believes in small government and would have fought against the creation of another government bureacracy.