Conservatives take a stand against Gonzales

It looks as if the leaders of the conservative movement have finally found something between their legs. According to the top story at the New York Times website, prominent conservative organizations and individuals are openly and vociferously warning President Bush that nominating Alberto Gonzales to the Supreme Court would splinter the president’s conservative support. The warners include such figures as Edwin Meese, Boyden Gray, and pundit Paul Weyrich, who in 1999 was talking about separating culturally from America, but who under Bush’s presidency, during which he has gotten weekly meetings with White House staff, decided that America was doing just fine. In any case, I can’t remember a similarly stern message to Bush from the conservative movement during the four and a half years of a presidency that has moved left, sometimes wildly so, on immigration, language, multiculturalism, racial preferences (with decisive input by Gonzales), speeches in foreign countries accusing America of bigotry, rhetorical embrace of Moslem enemies, politically correct airport security, unconstitutional controls on campaign finance, out-of-control spending, the legitimizing of Bill Clinton, and the rest of the Bush agenda, while conservatives consistently muted any unhappiness with the president out of fear of not seeming like team players. (Yes, I know, Bush has done some good things as well. But this is a brief blog entry; balance is not required.)

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 02, 2005 03:35 PM | Send