By Mr. Curmudgeon
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat paid America's conservative movement (read Tea Party) the ultimate compliment. Regarding Harry Reid's admission that cap-and-trade carbon emissions legislation is dead, Douthat writes, “If their bill is dead, it was the American conservative movement that ultimately killed it. Climate legislation wasn't like health care, with Democrats voting 'yes' in lockstep. There was no way to get a bill through without some support from conservative lawmakers. And in the global warming debate, there's a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the conservative movement and the environmentalist cause.”
In what has to be a major blow to the New York Times, Beltway Republicans appear to be more frightened of the Tea Party than a verbal knuckle-wrapping by columnists at the Times. Environmental supporters of the legislation blame “…figures like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, erstwhile supporters of cap-and-trade who have steadily backpedaled away from it.” It just underscores the importance to the Republican cause for voters to “backpedal” from accomodationist Beltway Republicans in the primaries.
Douthat makes the usual mainstream media claim that to be a Republican automatically makes you a conservative. John McCain? Lindsey Graham? Conservatives? Really? Mavericks, certainly. And by mavericks, I mean the kind of Republican that has compromised with every damaging big-government enterprise that now brings our once great country to the brink of collapse. This brand of Republican conservatism hasn't the stones to perform the duty implied by its very name...to conserve. They are too busy helping Obama's Democrats deconstruct America into a leftist banana republic.
It's bad enough that Beltway Republicans let the New York Times define conservatism. The question that puzzles me is - why do Republican voters?
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