Conservatism as an Entitlement
Between bleating that a law designed to protect a woman from being starved to death because her cheating husband insisted that was what she wanted was “unconstitutional a dozen ways over” (without citing one, let alone 12 supposed constitutional defects), endorsing the most liberal U.S. Senator for President, trashing the U.S. Supreme Court for following his own brief in acknowledging that there is an amendment lodged in between Amendments 1 and 3, and now arguing that his own state’s Constitution is unconstitutional is there anything Douglas Kmiec can say or do to convince some that whatever he may have been in the past, he’s not a conservative now? Or is conservatism one of those “once an X, always an X” traits, in which case I’m a pacifist and a socialist?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Kmiec, Andrew Sullivan, and Arlen Specter. The libs have decided its more useful to use them as straw men (e.g., “Even the conservative Andrew Sullivan agrees with me!”) than to acknowledge that they’ve flipped.
Libs are very good about burning bridges with any lib who even gets close to having moderate views, so we can’t do the reverse to them. Not that I care. It’s a stupid form of argument to begin with.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am
This is right here, in the present, not the future.