Crunchy Madness
Written by Jack O'Reilly on March 19th, 2006So, my view on “Crunchy Conservatism” has shifted from annoyed/slightly amused, to simply angry when I read this in Jonah Goldberg’s excellent column in National Review: “Dreher embraces a smorgasbord of popular liberal-Left assumptions about the environment, organic foods, and what-not and says that, since he’s a good conservative, these things must be conservative too. This narcissism caused him to support a pro-choice liberal Democrat over Joe Barton, the incumbent pro-life conservative in his congressional district, because Barton is ’soft’ on pollution” (emphasis mine).
And John O’Sullivan, in the same issue, adds that Dreher and friends argue that “conservative support for free markets should be tempered by concern for nature, family life, religion, and social stability. My sense is that conservatism, as opposed to libertarianism, has always accepted such limits to pure capitalist competition” (emphasis mine).
Well said.
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I apologize for this comment that is completely unrelated to the above post, but I know of no other way to reach savethegop readers.
A letter to the editor of mine was just published by Duke’s student newspaper.
http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/paper884/news/2006/03/20/Letters/Double.Standards-1690487.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
If that link doesn’t work, please go to http://www.dukechronicle.com, click on opinion, and read “Double Standards”. Also, check back in the next few days to see the ridiculous amount of backlash that this letter will likely generate.
Please read it and let me know what you think. Thanks, all, and I’m sorry again for the completely unrelated comment.