[AdaGray]

Excellent article. As a northeastern Conservative who went to school with some of these elitist Conservatives, I know them all too well. Can we say...Mr. Kristol, Mr. Brooks? They are out of touch and far more concerned with social acceptance than reporting on the real mood of the nation.

[tom h]

"Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential candidate has revealed a serious chasm in conservatism"

"There is a large block of conservatives of libertarian bent ... who believe in individualism, personal responsibility, private property and limited decentralized government as envisioned in the Constitution and promoted by Ronald Reagan."

The Republican party long ago left rich Easterners in New York and Connecticut, who in the 1950s and 60s cared only about tax rates. They are all country club Democrats now.

I have long been saying that the Republican party, with the populism awoken by Sarah Palin, is morphing into the Patriot Party. A party that loves country and reveres our nation's origins and Founding Fathers. A party that appreciates the nation's religious origins.

These are the voters that Ronald Reagan awoke.

I still chuckle when I think about that news item the day after Reagan won his huge landslide in 1984. The editorial board at the New York Times was crestfallen. Up on the 50th floor, looking out the windows at their bustling city, they mused to each other, "How did this happen? I don't know anyone who voted for Reagan."

In the meantime, on the lower floors and in the basement, the secretaries, custodial staff, and paper boys were all exulting over Reagan's win. Guess the "peons" in the building didn't give a d-mn what their elitist bosses were writing every day on the upper floors. All the ink in the world, all the noise from television sets, wouldn't change the truth.

[meadsjn]

Bump for an excellent article.

[happygrl]

Outstanding !

(Take that, Peggy Noonan !)

I don't know who the other reference pertains to.

[GOPJ]

The Northeastern urban conservatives must find some way to connect with the rest of the country. If not, they’ll end up much like the “conservatism” expressed by Andrew Sullivan (whose main outlet, it should be noted, is a European paper) – obsessive, strange, and isolated, existing in dream world with no connection or influence to anything else.

We must wish them luck. They have much to offer. But we can’t wait for time to finish working on them. We have too much to do -- an election to win, a world to reform... and don’t forget the occasional snowmobile race, either.

We have become what the dems tried to pretend being but are not - we're (Republicans) the PARTY OF THE PEOPLE!

[rmlew]

That’s it. We are not disaffected by the GOP and movement conservatives suddenly sounding like NOW and all but supporting the ERA. No the problem is that we are magically liberal.