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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
The clear implication of the quote you gave is that conservatives aren't paying attention and will wke up after the election.
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I really don't think so, but if you're intent on arguing about what you see between the lines in his piece instead of what he actually says, so be it.
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Depends which day it is. More than half of the days since he's said it was the wrong thing to do. Will he do it next time given the same set of facts, and no knowledge that its all a bluff?
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He's said that the vote to give Bush the authority was the right thing to do, but that Bush mis-used that authority. What's confusing about that?
Are we really going to have this conversation again? The foreign-policy difference between Bush and Kerry is really very clear. Bush articulates policy in simple, clear terms, and knows what he wants to do. He also has terrible judgment and execution, and cannot hold his subordinates accountable. Kerry cannot articulate a simple, broad rational for the foreign-policy he advocates, but his instincts clearly belong in the moderate mainstream of Democrats and Republicans who led this country for the fifty or so years before W. There's no reason to think he would be as ragingly incompetent in the execution as Bush has been. Neither is perfect.
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Not that he's trustworthy, and not that I even recognized the names of more than half of the people he cites, but I'm not sure there are even 10 household recognizable true and serious conservatives left in the public realm in this country.
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I don't know a lot about Schmitt, but he was a congressional staffer for a while, and his posts are more thoughtful and rewarding than 90% of political blogs of either political stripe.
