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October 19, 2005
Won't Get Fooled Again?
The New Republic Online has an article by Jonathan Chait by Conservatives Get Taken for a Ride (may require free registration). It begins:
There are two basic ways to think about President Bush's relationship with the religious right. The first is that Bush is a genuine ally of social conservatives who, while often cagey in public, takes every opportunity to advance their agenda. As liberals would phrase this interpretation, Bush is a tool of the religious right. The second--utterly diametrical--theory is that Bush is mainly interested in harvesting votes from religious conservatives in order to implement an agenda dominated by his economic backers. In liberal-ese: Social conservatives are hapless GOP dupes. At this point, five years and two Supreme Court nominations into the Bush presidency, we can arrive at a definitive answer. And the verdict is: hapless dupes.
And so on... The piece doesn't exactly cover new ground but might at least convince some of those liberals at home and abroad tha America is not actually being run by a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalists. In fact, this image helps Bush, since it assists him in holding onto social conservative support. More important, however, in keeping us social conservatives voting for the GOP is, of course, the alternative...
For an excellent round-up of different views from mainstream conservativism on the Miers nomination, see LifeSite News.
Posted by John at October 19, 2005 10:15 PM
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