Hey, Christo! Long time no see. I know how you feel, and to nobody’s surprise, I agree with this statement entirely:
While I regret this development [leaving National Review], I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.Â
So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me. Â
