Conservatives & "Liberals"

"...As David Brooks writes in today's New York Times:

"Conservatives have thrived because they are split into feuding factions
that squabble incessantly. As these factions have multiplied, more
people have come to call themselves conservatives because they've found
one faction to agree with."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/opinion/05brooks.html?ex=1270353600&en
=95b8e0d5b311e9b1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

By contrast, fewer people have come to call themselves liberal in part
because liberals are eager to cast out heretics. As Marc Cooper of The
Nation writes for The Atlantic:

"I've heard liberals, in their post-election malaise, obsess just as
much over who they don't want in their ranks, culturally speaking, as
over who they'd like to recruit. After some polls suggested that Bush
won in November because a large percentage of Americans voted their
"moral values," I was involved in discussions with dozens of panicked
progressives who openly feared that someone, somewhere in the Democratic
Party, might actually try to accommodate these lunatics."

http://www.powells.com/review/2005_03_15.html

Developing a political majority is a matter of addition, not
subtraction, and the GOP's openness to a variety of viewpoints is a
strength, not a weakness." [John Kerry ** had Great Trouble
understanding that. ---- DSH

"** The haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way
promised 65 days ago to release his military records."

James Taranto
The Wall Street Journal
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Yes, the same John Kerry who served in Vietnam for about four months --
and then turned traitor.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

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