Monday, February 4, 2013

The "kept conservative"

Jerry Bowyer, in this piece at Forbes, does a good job in sizing up the Vichy conservatives.
The kept conservative’s announced job is to represent the conservative point of view, but their real job is to give the illusion of balance without really challenging any of the core tenets of liberalism. They spend lots of time ‘reinventing’ the Republican Party, and the new invention is always the same: more liberal. They live among liberals, their friends are liberals, and, of course, they are paid by liberals.

4 comments:

JeffS said...

Vichy, or Quisling?

Not that there's much of a difference in the end.....

Spiny Norman said...

The GOP House is Vichy, "Weepy" Boehner is Marshall Pétain, Chuck Hagel is Quisling (wannabe), and Brooks, Frum, Scarborough, et al are Tokyo Rose / Lord Haw Haw?

Paco said...

Say, what is all that? The script from Downfall?

JeffS said...

My German is too rusty for an easy translation, Paco, so I hit an on-line translator.

Bottom line: Spam for some game.

Bitte schöne!