David Horowitz was raised in a for real Communist household, but my impression is that he’s always more thoughtful than rabid. He left the Left when one of his good friends was murdered by the Black Panthers, who were of course darlings of the Left.
There’s a lot that I like about David and I’ll accept him as an ally, but I’m loathe to hold up as a conservative icon anyone whose instincts were on the Left. One glaring example of this is Michael Medved, whose “conservative” conversion seems more and more thin these days- his idea of a conservative runs to Karl Rove and John McCain. Basically Medved spends his time trying to push the GOP to the left.
Agreed. Lets win the senate and then purge them all.