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To: KonKilo who wrote (12586)	2/18/2006 8:30:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541346

I found that piece interesting. He makes a number of good points, I think, as he develops his idea but there is has a flaw that is just so fundamental it ruins everything. He seems to think that conservatism is ideologically monolithic and that's just not the case. Nadine spoke recently to the various ideologies that comprise it and some of them are very much at odds with one another. The left may be a collection of "disparate concerns" but at least they are not at odds with one another as they are on the right. The main thing, IMO, that the right has in common and what most holds it together is it's aversion to the progressive movement. If the author called this a "Republican Movement" rather than a conservative movement, I think his idea would work better. He makes the excellent point of how much Bush has deviated from conservative doctrine yet you don't find herds of conservatives jumping ship. If conservatism is so monolithic, why is that? IMO it's because the cult he sees is more a Republican or perhaps simply anti-Democrat cult than it is a conservative cult. The problem for Dems with this kind of thinking is that to obscures the fissures on the other side, fissures they perhaps could take advantage of if they were smart about it. Instead they circle the wagons and become more purely progressive. That just feeds the movement. P.S. I award point to any article that presents to me a new word. I don't think I've ever seen "limning" before. Perhaps I have and just forgot it because it isn't a very useful word, but in any case it sent me to the dictionary.