National Review Cruise to Cruise Missles

Get a CLUE!

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth – and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's practically a holiday camp... The annual cruise organised by the 'National Review', mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.

We are NOT Republicans nor conservatives. However, we do pine away for the conservatives of old...those we can recognize. Like Goldwater, Nixon, William Buckley, George Will. You know, the good old days. Now the conservatives and Republicans are dirtied by the neoconartist rhetoric that is fear mongering and ugly - and slipping into the American discourse via right wing talk radio. Here's one of the best articles we've seen in ages exposing the failings of the current batch of conservative sheep who are following a broken leader. Read the whole thing-it's very enlightening.

Rod Dreher's neocon mea culpa

National Review conservative is having misgivings about his allegiance:

I did not expect Vietnam.

...As I sat in my office last night watching President Bush deliver his big speech, I seethed over the waste, the folly, the stupidity of this war.

I had a heretical thought for a conservative - that I have got to teach my kids that they must never, ever take Presidents and Generals at their word - that their government will send them to kill and die for noble-sounding rot - that they have to question authority.

On the walk to the parking garage, it hit me. Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation that? Why had we scorned them so blithely?

Will my children, too small now to understand Iraq, take me seriously when I tell them one day what powerful men, whom their father once believed in, did to this country? Heavy thoughts for someone who is still a conservative despite it all. It was a long drive home.