Posted by
Richard on Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:25:01 PM
J.R. Dunn at American Thinker has a well written piece about the changing face of conservativism.
I know it does sound like a bit of a paradox. But the old guard is indeed changing. In the piece he refers to the old guard as the NE Corridor conservatives that inhabit the region between NY and DC. He continues on with an elaborate explanation of how what was once the core is now, sadly, a fringe group of elites and just as sadly not much different than the left. To quote Mr. Dunn;
"so isolated had the Northeast Corridor conservatives become, so deeply embedded in their Jamesian parallel universe (which can best be pictured as kind of a conservative version of the old Steinberg New Yorker cover, with E.35th St. and Allen Jay Lerner’s townhouse looming as the center of the earth while, off on the horizon, we see a dot labeled, “Nascar races”), that they couldn’t recognize her {Governor Palin}, clear conservative stance, couldn’t recognize her personal courage, couldn’t, in the end, be bothered to stand with her when she and her family were victimized by the most repellent political attack of our epoch.
It is very possible that Mr. Dunn has something to say. Indeed as he mentioned the above statement wittness the new energy that Governor Sara Palin has infused into our ranks. An outsider would wonder, to coin a phrase; "What's up with that?" But I believe the answer is quite simply that she is identified as one of us, aka the common working man/woman, (yeah us that the sociolibrocrats are always saying they represent). She is every aspect of middle class life, work ethic, compassion, traditions and religious values, that many of us hold so onto to dearly. Along with our guns...
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