Has Kathleen Parker always been a “conservative”? She is always referred to as a “conservative” columnist, but is she really? What’s her history? What have her columns been like in the past?
My point is that you cannot point to the fiscal policies of W. and use them as a definition for “conservative” as a basis for your attack on conservatism. That’s a fallacy of logic I believe is called a Strawman Argument.
With the beginning lines of this column, I may only conclude she too tasted some Kool-Aid and has joined the cult. Whatever she’s written in the past is part of her former life.
She's strictly 50/50 for every 'conservative' column she writes another which is mainstream democrat left wing. I've been reading her for years on-off since I stumbled upon a very common sense column she wrote opposing women in combat. I like to think of her as the greatest pundit that ever straddled both horns of a dilemma. But, make no mistake,and I wish I could find the column where she stated this succinctly, she is a democrat and after all her self-described conservatism she will party vote for the democrat.
She is what I might call a distaff conservative; daddy’s girl, mommy-pleaser, self-educated conscience-awareness-raiser.
She mostly writes controversial columns with a conservative theme as though she were describing the terrain.
She fills a void that embarrassed editors felt Martha Stewart was too housewifey for.
A deep thinker, she ain’t - a wordsmith with a cold flame and a clunky hammer willing to hold the same horseshoe for days..