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P.J. O'Rourke Explains it all for you

In a piece titled "We Blew It" P.J. has met the enemy of conservativism, and turns out the enemy is us:

Snip:

"In how many ways did we fail conservatism? And who can count that high? Take just one example of our unconserved tendency to poke our noses into other people's business: abortion. Democracy--be it howsoever conservative--is a manifestation of the will of the people. We may argue with the people as a man may argue with his wife, but in the end we must submit to the fact of being married. Get a pro-life friend drunk to the truth-telling stage and ask him what happens if his 14-year-old gets knocked up. What if it's rape? Some people truly have the courage of their convictions. I don't know if I'm one of them. I might kill the baby.I will kill the boy.

The real message of the conservative pro-life position is that we're in favor of living. We consider people--with a few obvious exceptions--to be assets. Liberals consider people to be nuisances. People are always needing more government resources to feed, house, and clothe them and to pick up the trash around their FEMA trailers and to make sure their self-esteem is high enough to join community organizers lobbying for more government resources

End Snip.

In one single article, P.J. manages to distill the essential arguments into two basic pages of text. That's not half bad for a former National Lampoon writer.

P.J. is far more down in the dumps about our future as a country than I am. I'm still in a pretty good mood about our future and our chance to change things for the better, but then again I dont have Hemorrhoid Cancer like he does.

Posted @ November 09, 2008 01:32 PM

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Posted by: thomasMichael at November 10, 2008 08:16 PM