write-in: I have always considered myself a staunch liberal ... (I am25)
No wonder folks like Gary Hart have to write books with titles about the courage of convictions and the dear Harry Reid's rhetoric seems in need of a generational update.
If liberals feel like they have to head over to Conservatism, which will never change its stripes, to have a dialogue on what to do, then maybe Progressivism is lost in the wilderness, once again.
THE TIME IS NOT RIGHT
Did you notice that, when the GOPers lose, it is time for everyone to cooperate. Yet, when they win, it's time to push everyone out of the way?
Frankly, I don't remember Newt, after his 1994 'mandate', offering Clinton a hand of compromise on much at all.
So what does small-c conservatism (is that like compassionate conservatism, just without the evangelical attachment?) offer up:
- gerrymandering: ... after a million, thousand years of this
- pork: ... for conservatives to lecture about reining in pork now is just impossible. Why don't small-c conservatives come up with a way to replace the money in the treasury for the prior "pork" of the big-C conservatives, eh? Let's talk about how damaging to the Republic a blind adherence to "no new taxes" really is, for a change.
- entitlement excess: ... LOL. ... I can hardly WAIT to see what has a manufactured importance in this category that gives it a top-five rating.
- poor intelligence: ... given that some reader wants to chat with a Conservative about what a 'staunch liberal' should do, I'd have to agree.
- Get Iraq right: ... I cannot imagine what this is going to entail, except that the big-"L" liberals are going to be asked to sacrifice themselves, too.
