Leftist: Patterico’s Views “Almost OK”
A left-leaning friend of mine, who reads Andrew Sullivan regularly, asked me my opinions on a few topics like Libby, the U.S. Attorney scandal, GTMO, and the like. My opinions on these matters are well-known to most regular readers, who know that I support the Administration on some of these issues, but not all. At the end of the exchange, my friend e-mailed to say:
I’m fine with being corrected by an informed, principled viewpoint. Your brand of conservatism is almost OK.
Heh. If I can get most left-leaning readers to agree that my views are “almost” reasonable, I think I’m doing pretty well.
Heh. It sounds like this guy’s brand of left-winged-ness is almost ok.
And “conservatism” nowadays really is just trying to conserve classical liberalism. We should re-appropriate the label.
I wonder if that’s the distinction underlying McCain’s “liberal” comment? A “conservative liberal” … makes sense to me.
Joe M. (5d215f) — 3/1/2008 @ 3:49 pmNevertheless, this should not become your goal, in and of itself.
Beldar (098090) — 3/1/2008 @ 4:06 pmOf course not. My goal is and always will be to call ’em as I see ’em.
Patterico (be2ccd) — 3/1/2008 @ 4:09 pmThis is similar to when Dennis Prager gets a caller who calls him to account on his belief that most people are “conservative”. Dennis always just asks them a series of questions as to whether they support, or oppose, certain beliefs: Most of the questions are straight out of the Left/Lib playbook.
Another Drew (8018ee) — 3/1/2008 @ 4:27 pmAfter his caller has opposed, in one way or another, most of the positions that Dennis has advanced, they are absolutely floored when he tells them that they are, in fact, conservative, and that what they have stated their oppostition to, are the bed-rock beliefs of the hard-core Left in America.
Most “liberals”, just cannot comprehend that they hold conservative positions, because they have been told throughtout their lives that “Conservatives” are cretins and knuckle-dragging Neanderthals; and, of course, they just couldn’t be that retarded.
Yes I can! 😉
Maybe we can get Obama to read this site?
Stashiu3 (c8e98a) — 3/1/2008 @ 4:45 pmStashiu3…
Another Drew (8018ee) — 3/1/2008 @ 4:54 pmObama would do himself a favor by doing so, but would probably undergo brain-lock, as the rationality found here fights with the crap-locker he calls a brain.
> At the end of the exchange, my friend e-mailed to say:
> I’m fine with being corrected by an informed, principled viewpoint. Your brand of conservatism is almost OK.
That means he’ll be happy if you’re the last one sent to re-education camp. [g]
Arthur (4b7bf7) — 3/1/2008 @ 5:13 pmYou are impure. We must purge you.
See-Dubya (7f702c) — 3/1/2008 @ 5:49 pmYa betcha!!
Sue (4177f3) — 3/2/2008 @ 8:51 amGeneral consensus among lefties I know that read political blogs is that this is one of the reasonable righty sites. So the friend’s comment doesn’t surprise me in the least.
jpe (bd88bc) — 3/2/2008 @ 9:26 amjpe – that’s why we’re here. Patterico runs a tight ship when it comes to facilitating open-minded ideological discussion.
Leviticus (3c2c59) — 3/3/2008 @ 10:21 am