Samuel

Re: “South Park Republicans”

As somebody who calls himself “conservative” (my sister, otoh, has described me as “somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun”), let me say that there are some “conservatives” who I “really can’t stand” either!

The Republican Party is no more monolithic than the Democrats were in the old days. There’s aleays been a “South Park Republican” contingent, but you usually don’t hear about them because (1) the South Parkers would just as soon not be bothered– they’d rather be watching football, (2) the activists (lacking a better term: I don’t mean just the Falwell folks, and I don’t just mean the Christian Right) tend to be noisier and make more outrageous statements, and (3) the MSM and the Democratic Party have found it politically advantageous to maximize the influence of (2) and minimize the influence of (1), the better to scare folks like you

I agree with Terry’s analysis and predictions re the Bush (Republican) domestic policy, espeically that the paleo-conservative stuff won’t pass anyway. That’s the political reality.

Meanwhile, there’s plenty of room. Welcome aboard.