Today's Conservative Movement: Can't see the Forest for the Sleaze Posted by Lorelei Kelly

So Sunday I went over to the Omni Shoreham hotel for the waning hours of the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference. I got there right when Gingrich was speaking...Lots of geeks and weenies in the lobby ( I say this with fondness, as one who has the trifecta of dorkiness in my past: Model UN, Future Problem Solvers of America and Dungeons and Dragons) It was a melancholy atmosphere, really, interspersed with defensiveness and nostalgia maybe? I got a conference package.... Reading through it, one can really see the angst and divisions in the conservative movement. Which is good. But still, the movement is rife with contradiction. For them to allow Ann Coulter on the same stage as Republican presidential candidates (she was introduced by Mitt Romney) shows that the conservatives aren't serious yet about reclaiming some responsibility for public policy.(although these ad pulls are a good start) The screeching harpy lounge act was the same as usual, offensive comments, lots of notoriety....and media scavenging.

Here's a post by Mark Steyn about why this contradiction works for the Right. They see the Left as actually worse than themselves, as this angry caller demonstrates, hence the rationalization that anything goes. I must admit, having done my share of lefty talk shows...that he's got somewhat of a point here. I don't agree that the Left is as anti-social as the Right in these cases, but I do agree that ideological laziness is a huge problem. Especially on national security issues. Maybe its just the rhetoric. Having studied conflict resolution, I've never met anyone who has worked in the field who thinks hardened violent intentions can be met with negotiations, but the sorts of easy answers that he says he gets on "liberal" talk radio (although I consider NPR to be very mainstream) are pretty inadequate.

Here's an excerpt:
“I didn’t mean that,” she said. “I meant going on those shows doesn’t sell a lot of books.” As she sees it, your nutso right-wing author does ten minutes on WZZZ Hate-Talk AM at three in the morning and the local Borders sells out the next day. Whereas he’s interviewed for an hour by Terry Gross on NPR, and it sends precisely two listeners out to their bookstore, and only to buy that Andrew Sullivan doorstopper on everything that’s gone wrong with conservatism."

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