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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - If Bush loses, serious conservatives, with the possible exception of extreme social conservatives, will have to ask themselves what they gained from four years of unfettered power, and ten years of domination of American politics.
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- Mark Schmitt is a bit behind. Serious conservatives have been asking themselves questions since some point in 2002, certainly in 2003, and definitely in 2004. Mark Schmitt is apparently not in touch with the Right except as a political theory that he can study from a distance.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A smart conservative would surely prefer Bush to lose, if only to get the long process of intellectual rebuilding started right away.
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Its the war, stupid (not you, just paraphrasing what this boils down to). The post 9/11 security situation is the absolute, overriding political concern in this nation. And we still have not heard a serious word about it from Kerry except his pandering to the Dean crowd. Which I do not necessarily object to except that he won't embrace Dean's profile-lowering entirely, and rather seems to prefer an embrace the pre 9/11 reactionary policies. If he wants to have a chance to pull this off, he needs to call in the media in the next week and give a speech using the words "preemption" and "prevention" liberally and in a security context of what he is willing to do (no pun intended).
ETA its interesting how quickly this rebuilding conservatism thing has gained ground in the last few weeks. Party of One my ass.
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