From AZ Republic: Unconservative conservatives

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http://www.azcentral.com/business/columns/articles/0409talton09.html


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Conservatives control the White House, Congress and Supreme Court. Not only that, they have intimidated their longtime bogeyman, the major media. Yet things are not going well.

The catalog of disasters is thick: Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, congressional corruption, corporate cronyism, the betrayal of a CIA officer for political gain, a frightening foreign debt and bitter divisions over immigration, to name a few.

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It's too early to tell if conservatism has driven itself off a cliff. This movement will no doubt continue to be a magnet for the angry, fearful and entitled ("tax cuts"). Those voters won't know, or perhaps care, about the real power agenda behind the rhetoric.

[phantom power]

1. I can hear heads exploding all over the valley.

[Warpy]

2. Not really. Conservatives have been looking for a way

to distance themselves from the profligate lunatic in the White House. We're the ones who can't let them do it. They wanted him, he pushed their programs, they got what they voted for, and they just don't like the results. Hell, we all warned them what those results were going to be. They don't like that, either.

Of course, it won't cause them to question the basic flaw in their philosophy, it will just cause them to focus on the man who best represents its logical outcome.