Bush's bastardized "conservatism"
WorldNetDaily
by Ilana Mercer
10/21/05
"[Bruce Bartlett's] courageous column was only part of the fusillade he intends to let fly. To pre-empt his forthcoming book, 'The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy,' the former Reagan aid was dismissed from the National Center for Policy Analysis. My hopes for a conservative coup may have been premature. Bartlett has deviated from the party line on matters upon which the GOP High Priests have pronounced. His dismissal tracks perfectly with the current anti-intellectual, 'You-are-either-with-us-or-against-us,' tribalism. Adherents of this tradition judge ideas and opinions not on their merit -- wrestling with substantive arguments is not an option -- but in accordance with whether they comport with preordained positions. Or according to who originates them. (If Nancy Pelosi seriously supported balancing the budget, Republicans would reject it as a liberal idea.)"
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46956
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Ilana Mercer
10/21/05
"[Bruce Bartlett's] courageous column was only part of the fusillade he intends to let fly. To pre-empt his forthcoming book, 'The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy,' the former Reagan aid was dismissed from the National Center for Policy Analysis. My hopes for a conservative coup may have been premature. Bartlett has deviated from the party line on matters upon which the GOP High Priests have pronounced. His dismissal tracks perfectly with the current anti-intellectual, 'You-are-either-with-us-or-against-us,' tribalism. Adherents of this tradition judge ideas and opinions not on their merit -- wrestling with substantive arguments is not an option -- but in accordance with whether they comport with preordained positions. Or according to who originates them. (If Nancy Pelosi seriously supported balancing the budget, Republicans would reject it as a liberal idea.)"
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46956
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Okt, 19:39
