tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post7325576015853131627..comments2024-01-02T20:31:43.915-06:00Comments on In Medias Res: George F. Will and the Decline of the ToryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-10625445988397380202011-10-19T01:01:06.758-05:002011-10-19T01:01:06.758-05:00As a person who likes "Burkean" conserva...As a person who likes "Burkean" conservatism, the left is a more comfortable place than the right.Badenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971386762291001799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-78930183902697194222011-10-13T11:33:13.636-05:002011-10-13T11:33:13.636-05:00My hunch is that because "Burkean" conse...My hunch is that because "Burkean" conservatism is more of an attitudinal pose than a concrete political program, it will always lose out to the relatively more well defined libertarian nostrums of conservative orthodoxy. Irving Kristol seemed to follow a similar trajectory.Leehttp://www.thinkingreed.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-91551507896957264512011-10-13T06:23:27.670-05:002011-10-13T06:23:27.670-05:00I was never the close observer of Will that you we...I was never the close observer of Will that you were, but I too have been puzzled by why, during the current administration, he's now become Tucker Carlson with a fancier vocabulary. But sharper conservatives face a genuine dilemma these days: Stay true to their values as conservatives and get slammed by Tea Party types for doing so, or attempt to stay relevant by parroting party lines.<br /><br />Just yesterday on <i>Marketplace</i>, David Frum told the host that he (Frum) could no longer present the conservative economic counterpoint to Robert Reich's progressive arguments, even though Frum still believed that conservative solutions for government and the economy were the better ones. The reason: given what passes for conservative orthodoxy on the economy these days, Frum says he cannot speak persuasively on behalf of that orthodoxy. Less politely: In matters of the economy, at least, "conservatives" have lost their collective minds, and Frum refuses to argue on behalf of their madness. <br /><br />So, Will and Frum represent those two choices open to the conservative intelligentsia. Not much of a choice, if one hopes to gain/retain an audience.John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.com