Bradley in DC
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Wanted: A New Conservatism
May 31, 2007
George F. Will, spokesman for the hence-thus-indeed coffee-table school of conservatism, whose utterances seem meant to sound like old translations from some august language, has once more done what he does best: set my teeth on edge with yet another pronouncement on what the contemporary conservative position ought to be.
In recent weeks Will has all but endorsed Rudy Giuliani (whom else?) for president and ridiculed Ron Paul, who takes the U.S. Constitution seriously, as an anachronism. I imagine he slapped his flippers together in glee when Giuliani attacked Paul for saying the obvious, that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by American foreign policy, rather than by virginal American innocence. Paul might have been speaking for Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, men to whom Giuliani would have little to say, unless he could say it with his middle finger. . .
May 31, 2007
George F. Will, spokesman for the hence-thus-indeed coffee-table school of conservatism, whose utterances seem meant to sound like old translations from some august language, has once more done what he does best: set my teeth on edge with yet another pronouncement on what the contemporary conservative position ought to be.
In recent weeks Will has all but endorsed Rudy Giuliani (whom else?) for president and ridiculed Ron Paul, who takes the U.S. Constitution seriously, as an anachronism. I imagine he slapped his flippers together in glee when Giuliani attacked Paul for saying the obvious, that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by American foreign policy, rather than by virginal American innocence. Paul might have been speaking for Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, men to whom Giuliani would have little to say, unless he could say it with his middle finger. . .
