People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch publishes some comments from unhappy wingnuts concerning 2007. Most amazing, to me, was this admission from Rick Santorum:
Perhaps the most pessimistic response came from defeated Senator Rick Santorum who appeared to be so despondent that he could barely muster a few vague platitudes about making “judicial activism” a bigger issue – and even that was overshadowed by his own apparent sense of hopelessness:
Conservatism, of course, will never be the political disposition of a majority of Americans. Conservative objectives, however, will from time to time find the support of such a majority; the success of the conservative movement depends in large part on leaders taking advantage of such moments.
Did Santorum just admit that most Americans aren't conservatives and that the only way for the conservatives to impose their minority will on the rest of us is to "take advantage" of scams to get most Americans behind some vague "conservative objectives" coughhatethegaycough???
I bet a quick Lexis search would find dozens of Santorum quotes about how liberals are "out of the mainstream," and how conservatives express "the values of the heartland."
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Pardon the semantic hair-splitting but what does he mean by "conservative"?
On the world stage, America is decidedly conservative. I can only understand Santorum to mean an ideological purity that exists only among zealots; not a claim that Americans are secretly "liberal" in the sense most progressives mean.
I took it as an admission that typical, average Americans are not, in fact, crazy wingnuts like himself.
Verification word is "booiaps", which seems somehow vaguely appropriate...
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