Are Conservatives Dead or Resting?

American Thinker ^ | June 08, 2008 | Christopher Chantrill

[the invisib1e hand]

Are Conservatives Dead or Resting?

We'll know after the election. If they're dead, they'd have voted for Obama.

[MichiganMan]

They’re not dead, they’re just pining for the fjords.

[guinness4strength]

For now.... Dead

Like the Demos were dead 4 years ago with Kerry/Edwards who had little new ideas except to oppose the republicans.

It’ll take a leader like Reagan to bring conservatives back. How long that’ll take no one knows.

[library user]

For now.... Dead Like the Demos were dead 4 years ago with Kerry/Edwards who had little new ideas except to oppose the republicans.

Kerry/Edwards received more than 48% of the popular vote in 2004. That's dead?

[weegee]

So off they went to sow division in the Democratic Party, using a politics of "positive polarization." It "ensured that American politics would be an ugly, unredeemed business for decades to come."

LBJ's 1964 tv ad campaign showed KKK klansmen burning crosses and tried to link them to Goldwater.

LBJ's 1964 tv ad campaign showed a small child pulling the petals off a daisy and suddenly being killed in a nuclear holocaust by the goony Goldwater.

Yeah, 1966 was WHEN politics turned "ugly".

Sell that story someplace else.

[clamper1797]

Conservative are neither dead nor resting. They have been betrayed forgotten ignored and abandoned ... at the GOP’s peril. If we didn’t have such a dangerous Marxist asshat running on the other side who IMO MUST be kept out of the WH at all costs ... a third party would be in order

[cripplecreek]

Not dead. Just preparing for battle with which ever liberal is elected.

[WesternPacific]

I’m not Dead or Resting. I’m just tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!

[vietvet67]

“It’ll take a leader like Reagan to bring conservatives back. How long that’ll take no one knows.”

Not that he could have filled Reagan’s shoes but I think the country missed an opportunity with Fred Thompson..

[Perdogg]

It all depends on the definition of "conservative". I consider myself a conservative, but I am more of a conservatarian. This means I am conservative on law and order - national security, but a social libertarian. The modern conservative movement has been split by some social conservatives who want to establish a theocracy, or big govt social conservatism, and those who believe in Federalism. The American public will not tolerate any one wanting to establish a theocracy.

[b4its2late]

We are broken right now. A ship without a rudder.

[csmusaret]

I think there were never as many Conservatives as we thought. Many Republicans but not so many of them were conservative. That is the only thing I can think of to explain McCain’s success.

[Arkinsaw]

If you look back over the last 30 years, back over the record of conservative reform, there is one thing that stands out. Conservative reform never had a chance unless there was a crisis.

True enough. But the difference is that the last time "conservatives" were called on in a crisis they failed to help and they got cast back into the wilderness. So now, not all Americans trust that they will do what they say and Democrats point to Bill Clinton as the example of Democratic "budget balancing".

So we have a hard row to hoe.

If conservatives are ever given the chance again....they better actually do what they say and not just take over the Democratic power levers and perks like they did last time.

[stylin_geek]

The article believes that Senator McCain will hold the line on domestic issues. The article is mistaken.

Senator McCain’s support for the recently shelved Lieberman Warner Climate Security bill tells me Sen. McCain is left to far left on domestic issues.

Even President Bush, who has allowed government spending to go unchecked, threatened to veto Lieberman Warner.

Senator McCain’s support of Lieberman/Warner was enough to cost him my vote. It was the proverbial last straw.

[stylin_geek]

I was all set to vote for the lesser of two evils one last time. Then Lieberman/Warner came along and convinced me otherwise.

[TLI]

Not that he could have filled Reagan’s shoes but I think the country missed an opportunity with Fred Thompson..

That was a big miss.

Real big. Now we have Juan MxCain. Or Mr. Hussien.

I could puke but instead I am back to gathering sell-sufficiency infrastructure items in case the unthinkable actually does occur.

[freedomfiter2]

The modern conservative movement has been split by some social conservatives who want to establish a theocracy,

Oh please, maybe you should look up the word “theocracy”.

[Beagle8U]

“Not that he could have filled Reagan’s shoes but I think the country missed an opportunity with Fred Thompson..”

That needed to be posted again!

[sirchtruth]

It's been quite obvious conservatives don't make their politics their religion like liberals and moderates do. What is always worrisome is do an adequate amount of us care enough to not only stop the left, but carry conservatism forward? And in this past 13 years when conservatives had the chance to put down liberalism for a good long while they caved into it.

It's not the liberals who destroy conservative thought, it's the moderates and rino's within our own party. And if repubs keep voting and embrasing these progressive social ideas and with canidates who hold them, liberals will win the day.

Many Conservatives are realy just politically lazy.