Cloudy Fortunes for Conservatism

[Xiahou]

Here's a thoroughly depressing article about apparent collapse of the Conservative movement.

Cloudy Fortunes for Conservatism

An excerpt:

In other words, there's a huge crowd of self-described conservatives standing around the Republican elephant shouting "Do something!" But what they want the poor beast to do is very unclear. And it doesn't take an expert in pachyderm psychology to know that if a big enough mob shouts at an elephant long enough, the most likely result will be a mindless stampede -- in this case, either to general election defeat or to disastrously unconservative policies, or both.

The traditional conservative believes that if you don't have a good idea for what an elephant should be doing, the best course is to encourage it to do nothing at all. Alas, the chorus shouting, "Don't just do something, stand there!" shrinks by the day.

Personally, I blame Bush and his "compassionate conservatism" for much of this.