30 August, 2008

Conservatism And The Republican Party

On the day that John McCain has picked the uber-conservative Sarah Palin as his running mate, allow me to ask a topical quiz question. Who said the words below?

I was always suspicious of dogma and the excesses of the left and the right. One of my greatest criticisms of the Republican Party over the last 20 years is that it’s not particularly conservative. I can read conservatives from an earlier era — a George Will or a Peggy Noonan — and recognize wisdom, because it has much more to do with respect for tradition and the past, and I think skepticism about being able to just take apart a society and put it back together. Because I do think that communities and nations and families aren’t subject to that kind of mechanical approach to change. But when I look at Tom DeLay or some of the commentators on Fox these days, there’s nothing particularly conservative about them.

The answer is here. Sometimes I really like this dude.