Posted by Declan on October 15, 2005, at 3:02:30
In reply to Re: I like the developements lately, posted by caraher on October 15, 2005, at 0:13:16
I haven't understood why the Harriet Miers thing is so important.
But the cracks are being talked about. The Australian here, a Murdoch paper, had a column by an appointee to the Reagan administration who now heads something called Committee for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He seemed a straight (whatever that means) US style conservative.
He started by saying that Bill Clinton was a flawed man of enormous potential who failed to achieve his promise. And ended by saying that when this administration was elected the adults left town. In between he made character an issue by implication, which was nice to see.
It's funny about conservatives. There's Burkean British benign sorts. (The US may be a little different). And a lot of church people (mainstream ones, not fundamentalist), although maybe they're radical. [And all those Trots who became neocons]. People who believe in community or society, conservative things surely.
Maybe I'm saying that conservatism is opposed to individualism. But maybe not in the US. But the current administration is not conservative, is it? Do people disagree about that? All the real conservatives, the complaining civil sevants, diplomats etc pealed off some time ago, and more of them keep coming off.
I dunno, but I wonder how much of this is about policy and how much about character and folly.
Declan
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