(X-posted to ACT NOW)
It is possible, although decreasingly so in American politics, to admire, if disagree with, your political opponents. I keep a dwindling collection of conservatives, who are not preoccupied with vengeance, destruction, pledges and sexual politics. I call them "thinking conservatives" and perhaps the matters where we disagree would come down to economics and foreign policy. David Frum is on that list. So is David Brooks. William Buckley, the lucid founder of conservative magazine National Review, whose son Christopher Buckley famously left his father's venue and voted for Obama in 2008, was a pleasure to read before he passed away, if not for agreement but for his deft command of English. I can hardly imagine a current day conservative publicly criticizing Ayn Rand, as well as denounce the John Birch Society as "far removed from common sense". Who does the Right have now to carry the torch -- Rush Limbaugh? Charles Krauthammer? It's beyond embarrassing!
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