Reality Based Conservatism LIVES!!!

Passage of the Day:

There is a regrettable part of me that wouldn’t mind seeing President Obama reelected — just so I could enjoy watching the heads of Jennifer Rubin and Glenn Reynolds and Victor Davis Hanson and other right-wing drones explode.

Take this latest tripe of Rubin’s, and cue the diabolical laugh soundtrack:

 President Obama, I have frequently argued, has been fabulous for the conservative movement. He spurred the creation of the tea party. He helped the GOP win the House majority in 2010 and make big gains in the Senate. His Obamacare has helped revive the Commerce Clause and given a boost to conservative jurisprudence. His refusal to support human rights has caused a bipartisan revulsion and reminded us that foreign policy must be girded by American values. He’s sent independents running into the GOP’s arms. He’s forced conservatives to think hard and express eloquently principles of religious liberty, limited government, free markets and Constitutional democracy.

It’s impressive, this mode of thinking that can so monomaniacally overstate the powers of one man and one office — that can so breezily dismiss exogenous factors, that is so utterly incapable of even entertaining notions that require an appreciation of nuance or subtlety.

Rubin’s blogging is like a daily comic strip, a window into the inner workings of the propagandistic mind — except it’s all too real.

 There can be no accurate short-term narrative about the Obama presidency that does not take into account the state of the global economy as well as the successful efforts of a dogged opposition party. And much of the conservative soul-searching she describes, including the Tea Party backlash, would have happened anyway, in one form or another. These were institutional reactions to the Bush years as much as to Obama’s agenda.

Scott Galupo, AmCon Blog

I guess this is reality based conservatism that you don't see very much on the internets.

And I'll admit, one of the benefits of Pres Obama's re-election will be to watch right wing drones go into full melt down.  As far as Rubin and Reynolds are concerned, they are propagandists, who most notably in the case of Rubin, don't likely believe the dribble that they write. Their propaganda is to serve the cause which transcends truth.  The rubes are merely their play things.

Notably, Rubin is a Neocon. A central tenet of neo-conservatism is deception as neocons believe that liberal democracy is too fragile to be entrusted to the hands of the voters. Thus deception is a mainstay of molding public opinion.

Hanson, I believe, may be deranged or, in a best case scenario, just unmoored from reality firmly within the grip of the enchantments of right wing counter-culture.  If the latter is the case, a good stay at Camp Bachmann may be enough to bring him back to reality - if only they existed.   But either way, an Obama win will certainly lead to uncontrolled furious diatribes via the NRO. This will be a sight to behold.