Pat Buchanan wrote an interesting article at Townhall about Media Bias. He uses the same flawed test that conservatives always used to prove media bias; which percentage of the newspaper community endorsed Gore vs. Bush? Of course, as you all know, that's not an ideal test. In truth, the main conservative bias is a bias in favor of corporations and against workers. But let's let that one go, and move on to the interesting part of Buchanan's essay.
He writes, "The House of Conservatism is a house divided. Conservatives of today are not the conservatives of yesterday. Many embrace the foreign policy of Wilson, the trade policy of FDR and the immigration policy of LBJ. They have made their peace with Big Government.
Can anyone name a federal agency George W. Bush or his father shut down, or a single federal program they ever abolished?"
Some of you may not remember it, but Pat Buchanan ran against President Bush and Gore in the last election. He didn't get as much press as Nader, but he was there. He left the Republican party to seek the Reform nomination (and had the honor of presiding over the Reform Party meltdown). Some would say, including Rush Limbaugh, that he left conservatism behind when he did that (of course he also had the nutty idea that shipping jobs overseas willy-nilly might be bad for America). So it's easy enough to read in this condemnation of President Bush an attempt to be more conservative than thou.
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