He wrote, not of conservatism, but of the
conservatives.
Some of the damning evidence he adduces is from
conservatives themselves, who confess to playing up the liberal charge for partisan political advantage.
Conservatives found themselves in a rhetorical bind, because while they felt it was beneath their dignity to respond to radical critics of the social and political hierarchy, they risked leaving the field to their contemptible opponents if they refused to stoop down to refute them.
Canadian-born Fordham University anthropologist Michael Cuneo discovered that many militant prolife protesters in Toronto were Catholic
conservatives who believed the church to be in crisis.
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that most
conservatives today disapprove of the Bush administration.
Goldwater's ghost hovers over
Conservatives Without Conscience (Viking), the new study of "authoritarian" Republicans by John W.
It wasn't enough to permanently resolve the distinctions between social and economic
conservatives that comprise the majority.
The term comes from the title of Dallas Morning News editorialist Rod Dreher's new book, "Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip home-schooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural
conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party).
While Barr insisted that the central issue in the debate was "whether or not we will remain a nation subject to and governed by the rule of law or the whim of men," Dinh insisted that true
conservatives are willing and eager to trust Bush: "None of us can make a conclusive assessment as to the wisdom of that [wiretapping] program and its legality, without knowing the full operational details.
It's widely assumed that "intelligent design" (ID) is a top priority of the
conservative movement, but there is one problem with that scenario:
Conservatives keep speaking out against it.
The
Conservatives were pulling up close in the polls.
