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True Conservatives Just Want a Turn -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Source: National Review Online

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

If there’s one thing liberal pundits are experts on these days, it’s the sorry state of conservatism. The airwaves and op-ed pages brim with more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger lamentations on the GOP’s failure to get with President Obama’s program, the party’s inevitable demographic demise, and its thralldom to the demonic deities of the Right -- Limbaugh, Beck, Palin.

Such sages as the New York Times’s Sam Tanenhaus and Frank Rich insist that the Right is out of ideas. After all, the religious dogmatism and “market fundamentalism” of the Bush administration were entirely discredited, leaving the GOP with its intellectual cupboard bare.

“During the two terms of George W. Bush,” Tanenhaus declares in his latest book, “conservative ideas were not merely tested but also pursued with dogmatic fixity.”

Even worse than being brain-dead, the right is black-hearted, hating good-and-fair Obama for his skin color and obvious do-goodery.

Predictably, Republican Dede Scozzafava’s withdrawal from the congressional race in New York’s 23rd District is not only proof the experts are r

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