Leonard Pitts Jr. is Shocked to Find Modern Conservatism is Nothing but Corrupt, Dishonest, Divisive Claptrap{snip}
Conservatism, an ideology once driven by principle, has shrunk until its purview can be, and often is, delineated in three syllables: God, guns, gays. Worse, it has embraced a win-at-all-costs ethos and intellectual dishonesty that are, even by the seamy standards of modern politics, astonishing.
To pick just one illustration: Last month, Karl Rove praised the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate, citing among other things, her two long years as governor of Alaska and her experience as mayor of Wasilla, which has a population smaller than some apartment complexes. This came a few weeks after Rove said Tim Kaine was unfit to be Barack Obama's running mate because Kaine had been governor of Virginia "only" two years, before which, he was mayor of Richmond which, with about 200,000 residents, is "not a big town."
Now, I don't care what your ideology is: You cannot, if you've got half a brain, define that as anything but hypocrisy. And if true conservatives hate seeing that kind of duplicity associated with conservatism, I understand.
But I have a question: Where have you been the past 15 years? Where were you when conservatism was untethered from principle, unhooked from reality? Where were you when it became smug and self-righteous, when it traded its integrity for situational outrage, its honor for ballot box success? Where were you when it got hijacked?
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