Conservatism Is Dead

New Republic ^ | February 18, 2009 | Sam Tanenhaus

[SunkenCiv]

[Revolting cat!]

IBWDAO (In Before We’re Doing A-OK!)

[SunkenCiv]

This was published in 2009. Here's the rest of the Sam Tanenhaus keyword:

• What is the Future of Conservatism?
• Extremism in Defense of Liberty
• The Great Debate
• Is Liberalism Dead?
• NYT Book Review's Sam Tanenhaus Predicted Death of Conservatism -- No Mention If It Would Outlive NYT
• Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated
• The Conservatives Come Back From the Dead
• Summer Books
• Influential NYT Editor Sam Tanenhaus: 'Extremist,' Know-Nothing Tea Partiers Like Birchers
• Why the Great and Growing Backlash? (Obama slapdown by the master VDH)
• The Fall of Obama (Krauthammer)
• System Takes Its Revenge On 2009's King
• Left Tries Out New Anti-Palin Smear: Claiming Asians/Pacific Islanders "Make Her Uncomfortable"
• "The Death of Conservatism": A Premature Burial
• Is Conservatism Brain-Dead?
• The Attempted Murder Of Conservatism
• The Death of Journalism
• No Requiem for a Twitching Corpse
• An Exaggerated Death -- In proclaiming the death of conservatism, Sam Tanenhaus misses several...
• No Dead Parrots Here ("It all began when Tanenhaus published 'Conservatism is Dead'")
• Requiem for the Right: The biographer of Whittaker Chambers and William Buckley on a dying movement.
• Is conservatism dead?
• The Death of Conservatism. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; (book review)
• The Right: Down, but Maybe Not Out [how the left sees the right -- interesting & amusing]
• A Vast Right-Wing Cry of Treason -- Ann Coulter gets McCarthy right -- and makes conservatives mad.
• A Vast Right-Wing Cry of Treason
• Writings of Whittaker Chambers

[Jonty30]

I would never say it’s dead, but merely resting. I find that people choose liberalism when they want to live a better life than they can afford, but become more conservative when the money’s gone.

[cripplecreek]

Any conservative who believes conservatism is dead needs to STFU, climb down off the corpse and GTFO because conservatives who are still living are tired of listening to them aiding the enemy.

[onyx]

No mention of Conservatives like Ted Cruz!

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Psycho_Bunny]

“the nation has sunk — or been plunged — into its darkest economic passage since the Great Depression”

There’s people who still think in terms of “since”? The correct placement of that sentences period is after “passage”

[Revolting cat!]

Voter turnout ~51%. Obamunist won 51:49%. Conclusion: elected /favored by ~26% of eligible voters.

[onyx]

Dammit.
I didn’t note the publication date!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Oh...I didn’t notice the date. lol

[SunkenCiv]

I picked that excerpt because it shows that the economic argument was and is BS — this op-ed is from 2009! It hadn’t been posted, which is weird.

[skeeter]

What a silly assertion from someone who's entire world consists of the contemporary political scene, apparently.

The core of conservatism is formed by hundreds, in cases thousands of years of human experience.

A false construct like progressivism - a temporary rebellion against normalcy - cannot kill it.

God's law and human nature will re-assert itself.

[SunkenCiv]

He can’t run again.

So far.

But this op-ed was in reference to the 2008 election, and was written in 2009.

[mountainlion]

Where is the /S? They want to get rid of conservatism so they can finish robbing the taxpayers blind but It ain't gonna happen

[VRW Conspirator]

Conservatism Is Dead

Liars. Liberal projection.

[Rodamala]

I've gladly traded the label "Conservative" for "Insurgent".

[Jyotishi]

The seed of conservatism isn’t dead. From a tiny seed grows the giant banyan tree.

[SunkenCiv]

The op-ed was published in 2009.

The Obama Tax Hike

to go with

The Obama Recession

[Jim from C-Town]

Hard economic times?

By the time Clinton took office the recession, a very mild on, was already over and a decent recovery already began. 1993 was only hard because of the idiot policies of Clinton and his far Left flirtations with all things Marxist. The best thing that ever happened to him was Republican opposition and their ability to stop the madness. This followed with a Republican majority and Gingrich forcing him to the right.