Posted by
The Vehement Moderate on Monday, August 20, 2007 3:02:50 AM
As a moderate, I try to include views from both sides. In fact, I was really pondering whether or not to become a conservative in the last decade, but I had a lot of doubts, beginning with the State of the Union Speech in Winter 2002. As soon as I heard that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were all being lumped together by the president in one group, I was certain that some sort of foreign policy disaster was inevitable. I didn't expect domestic policies to take such a terrible nosedive as well.
Anyways, the direction of Conservative Politics has been so utterly shaken in the last two years, that the Republican party can no longer function as a proper representative of the will of its constituents. I never imagined that I would see such a profound political disintegration in my life, but after the 2006 elections, it all came true. Even worse, nobody in the Republican Party seems even remotely willing to re-unite the scattered interests, or to lead them into the future.
I saw a comic strip with a funny take on the whole thing, check it out:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/08/20/tomo/