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The Myth of the Gray Suit

Thursday, November 20, 2008

I despise the glorification of conservatism. The idea that there were once pragmatic, cautious, competent, gray-suited guys making all the right moves is laughable. If they were so pragmatic and competent, they wouldn’t be extinct from the political landscape. Here’s one gray-suited dinosaur, George Will, making a case for conservatism in 2007: Today’s political argument [...]

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Please come back

Friday, November 14, 2008

We need conservatives.   I am not repelled by small c conservatism.  On the contrary, I believe conservatism is an essential balance and break on the hunger and energy of the progressive movement.  As I read once somewhere, we need gray-haired men wearing gray suits sternly scouring the federal budget for pricey and impractical items. [...]

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