“The Dallas Morning News has a wire story in Saturday's edition ... about neoconservatives running from the policy they engineered to launch a preemptive war against Iraq. The News mischaracterizes Richard Perle, who chaired President Bush's Defense Policy Committee at the Pentagon, as a "conservative." He is no conservative, but a onetime liberal Democrat turned Republican. Another neoconservative leader, Ken Adelman, [is quoted] as blaming Don Rumsfeld for the failure of the war. ... Again the News mischaracterizes Adelman as a conservative. Like Perle, Ken Adelman also is a former liberal Democrat turned Republican.”
Methinks he doth protest too much. Remember, Ronald Reagan was not a conservative. He, too, was a former liberal Democrat. LOL.
Conservatives are scrambling like mad to distance themselves from each other and their failures. Richard Perle, Ken Adelman, and now Tom Pauken are just giving further illustration to Rick Perlstein's rule, describing the right's mind-set, "Conservatism never fails. It is only failed."
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Rod Dreher and Mike Hashimoto are going after each other on Dallas Morning Views today over whether or not Mr Dreher is, in fact, a conservative. The knives are out and the election results haven't even begun coming in. That term "precriminations" was a good one.
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