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.
"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, February 4, 2013
The "kept conservative"
Jerry Bowyer, in this piece at Forbes, does a good job in sizing up the Vichy conservatives.
Vichy, or Quisling?
ReplyDeleteNot that there's much of a difference in the end.....
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?
ReplyDeleteSay, what is all that? The script from Downfall?
ReplyDeleteMy German is too rusty for an easy translation, Paco, so I hit an on-line translator.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: Spam for some game.
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