The Tearing of the Conservative Fusion
By George Will
TownHall.com
WASHINGTON -- Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives, many of whom share Huckabee's desire to "take back this nation for Christ," have collaborated with limited-government, market-oriented, capitalism-defending conservatives who want to take back the nation for James Madison. Under the doctrine that conservatives call "fusion," each faction has respected the other's agenda. Huckabee aggressively repudiates the Madisonians.
He and John Edwards, flaunting their histrionic humility in order to promote their curdled populism, hawked strikingly similar messages in Iowa, encouraging self-pity and economic hypochondria. Edwards and Huckabee lament a shrinking middle class. Well.
TownHall.com
WASHINGTON -- Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives, many of whom share Huckabee's desire to "take back this nation for Christ," have collaborated with limited-government, market-oriented, capitalism-defending conservatives who want to take back the nation for James Madison. Under the doctrine that conservatives call "fusion," each faction has respected the other's agenda. Huckabee aggressively repudiates the Madisonians.
He and John Edwards, flaunting their histrionic humility in order to promote their curdled populism, hawked strikingly similar messages in Iowa, encouraging self-pity and economic hypochondria. Edwards and Huckabee lament a shrinking middle class. Well.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 7:32 PM
1 Comments:
So the bottom line is that Huckabee and Edwards are essentially the same candidate. I can see that. Both are socialists, with Edwards being the more Marxian of the two.
Fortunately, Americans have a long habit of rejecting populists who run for the Presidency, Jimmy Carter and Teddy Roosevelt being the only two I can think of during the 20th Century. Were one of the two of them to actually be elected, the only thing that would save us from certain disaster would be a nearly evenly split Senate.
If they each fail to gain the nomination of their respective parties, maybe they should run together as independents. It would certainly provide some comic relief this fall.
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