In his Ten Conservative Principles, Russell Kirk wrote that “conservatism is the negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.”
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Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s departing press secretary is certainly no conservative, but he’s got the negation part of the argument down cold. Whatever it was, Groucho was against it; whatever it is, Gibbs isn’t it:
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