Bell Curve The Law Talking Guy Raised by Republicans U.S. West
Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."

Saturday, November 19, 2005

New feature

We're starting a new feature on The Citizens: the "Real Conservative" alert. We'll do this whenever someone like Andrew Sullivan or George Will gets all teary-eyed and reminiscent about the good old Reagan GOP days or some such nonsense. Here's today's:

Real conservatives deal with something called "reality." They listen to critics; they worry about worse-case scenarios; they care about long-term consequences of, say, piling up debt or going to war with no real plans for peace; they respect good men like John Murtha. The people running the country right now are not conservatives. They have highjacked that tradition for their own ends. And one day, we will recover it from their hands.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the new feature!

 

// posted by Raised By Republicans

Dr. Strangelove said...

I feel like a dork, but I cannot quite tell what part of this post is facetious. It sounds like you are mocking those "real conservatives" who get reminiscent about the good old days under Reagan, but then when you describe "real conservative" in the quote box, the description sounds more laudable. Could you clarify what the "real conservative" label means?

Anonymous said...

My point is the following: every poll of self-described conservatives, when they are asked "Do you agree with every dumb-ass thing this President has ever done?" 80-90% answer "Yes". So to call yourself a "real conservative" when you are at odds with the vast majority of people who call themselves conservative is ridiculous. 

// posted by Bell Curve

Anonymous said...

And he even says the "the people running the country today are not conservatives" -- again, an absurd statement. 

// posted by Bell Curve

Dr. Strangelove said...

Ah, I did not realize that the words inside the quote box were not yours. That makes more sense.