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How the White House won over conservatives for Roberts
If you’re wondering about the chorus-like effusions of praise for Judge John Roberts, whom most of us had never heard of before his nomination to the Supreme Court this week, the answer is provided in an amazing article in today’s New York Times. It’s about how the White House spent an entire year winning over doubtful social conservatives to Roberts’ side.
The first thing that strikes me in this story is the advance planning, the stroking, the manipulation, the politics, that the White House put into this. The second thing that strikes me is how for social conservatives, abortion remains virtually the only issue. That’s why the so-called conservative movement goes nowhere, and why it is so ineffective at stopping the advance of liberalism. It is, for all practical purposes, a one-issue movement. Email entry |