...it seems to me that we conservatives need to avoid falling into a historical revisionism that allows us to portray ourselves as passive victims of a feckless president. Not saying she does this, but I think as the last wheel comes off this presidency, and the GOP comes to grips with what this presidency has meant for the Republican Party and the conservative movement, there will be a strong temptation to resist owning up to our own complicity. Success has a thousand fathers, after all, and failure is an orphan. This failure is not President Bush's alone. The Republican Party owns it. The conservative movement, with some exceptions, owns it.He is absolutely right. And as one who saw all of this firsthand and wrote about it, I'm with Rod 100%.
Dreher on Noonan on Bush
Friday June 1, 2007
Rod Dreher posts today on Peggy Noonan's lambasting of President Bush:
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Unsympathetic Reader, "Anonymous" was me by mistake. You are right, of course, but I guess I was trying to point out the "conservative" and "Republican" are no more synonymous than "Republican" and "Christian." 2000 is when I, as someone who is conservative and tends to vote Republican, had to ask myself if the two hadn't diverged entirely.
It was too bad that many others hadn't noticed then. Since before the founding of the US many leaders worried about the usurpation of religion for political gain. No party has a lock on religious sanctity. My rule of thumb is that anyone who wraps themselves the flag or a Bible deserves extra scrutiny. The trouble these days is they every candidate feels they have to go through the motions of religious obsequiousness. Frankly, I think the country should elect at least one unabashed agnostic or atheist for President and get over the immature, populist craving for religious piety in our government officials. There is simply no reliable correlation between professed religious belief and good governance. FWIW - "Catholic" and "Democrat" diverged too.
Right Unsympathetic reader. Dogs drool when they smell meat and politicians praise.
I am a moderate with some conservative tendencies; however, I spent a number of years politically left-of-center.
The Bush Administration has never changed its modus operandi since first coming into office, and its not just the conservative movement that has been betrayed -- it is the nation itself.
The Bush Administration has been doing to the nation what Enron did to its shareholders and employees (and the state of California) etc. and with some of the same players involved. It started, insofar as I can see, when a man who was not qualified for the job of President decided he was entitled to that position by virtue of his parentage and class.
I am anything but anti-business, but Bush brought a bunch with him who are incapable of seeing a difference between the business interests they advocate for and the public interest.
The notion that Rod thinks American Conservative is the future of conservatism in any way is just laughable. It's unfortunate that his disillusion with the Bush administration has pushed him to a corner of conservatism that was rightly isolated and push aside long ago.
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