One Good Thing About the Election
is that the conservative pundits are likely to get better. (Well, nothing could make gasbags like Hannity or Limbaugh bearable, but some will get better...) Note how critical Steyn is of McCain in this piece.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Gene, I agree. Now that the Republicans are leaving a dominant power position they have reason to return to principle.
ReplyDeleteBut it's not only a shame but more than a little ironic that partisan/neocon gas-bags like Steyn cheered on the growth of the state under Bush, but even now as they call for smaller government and more liberty, they can't seem to note their own role.