If you scroll about halfway down the page you’ll find an interactive example of the Overton window. It shows why its so important to elect principled conservatives to stop our slide downward on the scale.
http://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow#top
Interesting, thanks.
Just as clarification, I didn’t post this article to help promote Beck’s book, but because I am curious about the political theory it presents.
It would be great if we had that choice.
Decades of "pragmatic" conservatives voting RINOs into office as the lesser of two evils has resulted in making certain that the right edge of the window is always shifting to the left.
That is why someone like Lugar is still in office, and he claim that eliminating the DOE is now unthinkable.
Obama's election might end up being the best thing for the conservative cause. If McCain had won he would probably be doing similar things and giving the Republicans an even bigger black eye.