by David Safier
What, I’m quoting conservative columnist Kathleen Parker again? Favorably? We live in strange times, my friends.
Today, Parker, who earned a truckload of virulent email for saying Sarah Palin is not fit to be VP, is now defending her fellow thoughtful conservative, Christopher Buckley, for saying he’s voting for Obama. Listen to her in today’s column:
What does it mean that the right cannot politely entertain dissenting opinions within its ranks?
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The well-fed Right now cultivates ignorance as a political strategy and humiliates itself when its brightest sons seek sanctuary in the solitude of personal honor.
The truth few wish to utter is that the GOP has abandoned many conservatives, who mostly nurse their angst in private. Those chickens we keep hearing about have indeed come home to roost. Years of pandering to the extreme wing — the “kooks” the senior Buckley tried to separate from the right — have created a party no longer attentive to its principles.
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Republicans are not short on brainpower — or pride — but they have strayed off course. They do not, in fact, deserve to win this time, and someone had to remind them why.
They, meaning Republicans (note she doesn’t say “we”) do no deserve to win this time, according to Parker. Be still, my heart!
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