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“Every great cause,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama."
And that:s from the former publisher of the National Review.
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dir…
I've been a radical neo-lefty for most of my life, but I always admired and respected real conservatives. They were often among the smarter people in the room and raised good pragmatic questions about issues. And despite my lefty social and civilrights tendencies I've been very real politik when it comes to foreign policy, where I often agreed with conservatives of a decade ago.
Bush\Cheney has nothing to do with "conservatism"...nor do the people here that defend such thinking. Obama is far more of a central realist reali politik guy than a lefty socialist. The old school conservatives know it, and it looks like, finally, vast swaths of the american electorate have sussed it out. The people here that seem to criticize Obama bc he's a "socialist" rather than address the realities of his policies and principlfes show their true colors...