Peggy Noonan has a great essay in the WSJ. Here’s a good pull quote:

But there’s unease in the base too, again for many reasons. One is that it’s clear now to everyone in the Republican Party that Mr. Bush has changed the modern governing definition of “conservative.”

He did this without asking. He did it even without explaining. He didn’t go to the people whose loyalty and support raised him high and say, “This is what I’m doing, this is why I’m changing things, here’s my thinking, here are the implications.” The cynics around him likely thought this a good thing. To explain is to make things clearer, or at least to try, and they probably didn’t want it clear. They had the best of both worlds, a conservative reputation and a liberal reality.

Anyone heard of this book, “Conservatives Betrayed” by Richard Viguerie? Looks to me like he is espousing the same talking points that you see repeatedly here and elsewhere such as the Club For Growth.

The Political Pit Bull has a review.

H/T to Politics1.

Apparently, Jim Webb, Democrat Senate candidate running against George Allen, writes novels that describe in quite a bit of detail sexual acts involving underage children.

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There is something that bothers me about the Stem Cell Research Debate. Proponents of “Embryonic” Stem Cell Research rarely use the word “Embryonic”. Instead they spread false information and purposely mislead.

Take the recent campaign adds done by Michael J. Fox for Missouri Democratic Senate Challenger Claire McCatskill. In the add the visibly shaken Fox accuses Senator Jim Talent and President Bush of not wanting to expand Stem Cell Research. Nothing is further from the truth. What Senator Talent, President Bush and many other Republicans oppose is the expansion of Government funded “Embryonic” Stem Cell Research (ESCR). As for “Adult” Stem Cell Research (ASCR), under this administration government funding has expanded and increased more than any previous administration.

Understand where the line is drawn here. ESCR involves the fertilization of an egg in vitro, and then destroyed to remove the stem cells. Life is destroyed. This is where conservatives and many Republicans draw the line and refuse to allow government funded research. Any private firm is still allowed to research ESCR, but interesting few have chosen too. Either for lack of funding as the left claims or because some scientists believe ASCR is more promising and poses less moral quandaries.

Honestly I don’t know if ASCR is more promising than ESCR. I am not a doctor or a scientist. But for me if ESCR destroys life we as a culture should not support it.