Obviously I don't agree with everything in this hilarious P.J. O'Rourke deconstruction of the GOP defeat last week, but it's hard to improve upon his lede:
Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone--gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that's headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble. The progeny of the Reagan Revolution will live instead in the universe that revolves around Hyde Park.
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"Your Name" at November 11, 2008 3:34 PM, if you're going to post bigoted statements, at least have the courage to put your name to them.
Whenever I read one of PJ O'Rourke's rants, I think of that faux-conservative, Stephen Colbert!
And I wonder: could O'Rourke be a Colbert clone?
Does he really believe what he's writing?
Or is he truly insane?
I really can't tell!
Also, for those praising O'Rourke, may I point to a significant lacuna: the environment. Last I checked, he doesn't think much of the climate change issue, and, well, I guess he doesn't much need to reflect on that issue now, either.
I used to love PJO, but hadn't read him for ages. I was pleased when someone sent me the link to this yesterday. I found it disappointing. It seemed adolescent, though I couldn't put my finger on why.
Panthera: As a person whose (albeit state-constitution) constitutionally guaranteed civil right to marry was just stripped from him, it is highly unlikely that any group which commits as heavily to the republicans as the conservatives have over the last decades is going to see any support from me.
MWorrell, meet Panthera. His comments are *why* younger people (35 and under) voted largely Democratic this past election, and why many are *not* conservatives. O'Rourke is spot on about losing the anti-gay attitudes within conservatism.
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