Comments on: Party of Palin: Update

By: BeerdedOne

BeerdedOne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:36:54 +0000

Barry/Marion,

You may be interested in reading this Brad DeLong critique of Lilla’s conservative intellectuals:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/11/american-right.html

Might disagree with some of his conclusions about Palin, but this is not the primary thesis. Good read.

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:40:34 +0000

Bolshevism? Deconstructionism?

Really?

The anit-intellectuals running the country just nationalized the banking, brokerage and insurance inudstries, and are about to nationalize the auto industry, and your biggest concern is Bolshevism?

What century are you from . . . ?

By: loan shark

loan shark — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:34:53 +0000

Anti-intellectualism? You mean the kind of intellectuals that have given us things like deconstructionism/living constitutionalism? Bolshevism, National Socialism and all the other rationales for top-down statism? Save us from your intellectuals.

By: janchup

janchup — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:20:45 +0000

Sanctity of Marriage will be the primary theme for the G.O.P. Now that is a serious issue that needs our full attention.

By: mitchn

mitchn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:10:43 +0000

@Tony says:
> …the conservative intellectual tradition sold out to the yahoos about 10 years ago and we are all poorer for it.

I would say the sellout occurred with Ronald Reagan’s nomination in 1980.

By: MaxLdaMan

MaxLdaMan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:03:14 +0000

Ah, for an intelligent conservatism instead of knee-jerk, simple-minded sloganeering. I can dream, can’t I?

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:56:10 +0000

Landmark realization in the aftermath of the “War to End Conservatism as We Know It.” What rise from the ashes? A Republican party taken back by the Buckleys and Kirkpatricks, or will it continue to descend into it’s Palin-induced coma of idiocy?

As Lilla stated at the end: “The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.”

I would argue the conservative intellectual tradition sold out to the yahoos about 10 years ago and we are all poorer for it.

By: joemccann

joemccann — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:12:20 +0000

After a quarter-century of neo-conservative ideology, supporting Palin appears to be the straw that broke the back, and yet it’s fitting that she is now an ideal scapegoat for such a conservative bunch…