HOW FUNDAMENTALISM IS SPLITTING THE GOP

[Ernesto]

Crisis of Faith
by Andrew Sullivan
Conservatism isn't over. But it has rarely been as confused. Today's conservatives support limited government. But they believe the federal government can intervene in a state court's decisions in a single family's struggle over life and death.
They believe in restraining government spending. But they have increased such spending by a mind-boggling 33 percent in a mere four years.
They believe in states' rights, but they want to amend the Constitution to forbid any state from allowing civil marriage or equivalent civil unions for gay couples.
They believe in balanced budgets. But they have abandoned fiscal discipline and added a cool trillion dollars to the national debt in one presidential term.

The chances of an administration tackling government spending after endorsing it enthusiastically for four years strikes these conservatives as unlikely. Hence their disillusion with Bush. They worry that this president has effectively granted legitimacy to vast areas of government power that the left will soon seize on to consolidate the welfare state and raise taxes under the banner of debt-reduction.







http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oc33pgsKUtBeq6q0a8yCZR%3D%3D

[coloradodem2005]

1. Well. Things don't seem to be working against them.

[Jade Fox]

2. We have people like you, Sullivan, to thank for Bush...

with his well-known connections to the religious right. You're the one
who told us just to trust him three and a half years ago, when he was
invading Afghanistan, just because he was the President and therefore
knew stuff we didn't.

Screw you. Conservatives have been willing to sell their souls for
power, and support any creep who was opposed to "Liberalism" to
consolidate the forces against us. Now you are reaping the rewards
of your actions.

[Spinzonner]

3. That's what happens when you make a pact with the devil

[Eloriel]

4. This is all by design, IMO

Here's a must read (and excerpt/synopsis):

********The Economic Tsunami : Coming Sooner Than You Think
(The country has been intentionally plundered and will eventually wind up in the hands of its creditors as Bush and his lieutenants planned from the very beginning....This same Ponzi scheme has been carried out repeatedly by the IMF and World Bank throughout the world; Argentina being the last dramatic illustration.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=118706&mesg_id=118706
Link: http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_16735.shtml

I wonder if people like Sullivan will someday wake up and realize what utter fools they've been?

[housewolf]

5. Why can't Conservatives

EVER take a good honest look at themselves without first slamming the left????

"One reason for conservatism's endurance in the face of such contradiction, of course, is the extreme weakness--intellectual and organizational--of the opposition. Liberalism ceased being a vibrant force in the American public weal two decades ago."