Lean Left

From The Memphis Flyer:

The conservative movement is wobbling like a punch-drunk boxer in the wake of Barack Obama’s knockout victory and widespread public eagerness to say farewell to President Bush and his disaster of a presidency. It is grasping at the thinnest of straws. (I’m still getting e-mails saying Obama was born in Kenya and therefore unqualified to be president.)

The thing is, we need strong, smart conservative voices in the U.S. (Paul Craig Roberts comes to mind.) Democrats are just as capable of screwing up the country as the Republicans and, as we know, absolute power corrupts absolutely.^* The last eight years have made that quite clear. But as long as the public face of conservatism consists only of clowns and Bush sycophants — Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Coulter, Joe the Plumber, et al. — the movement is doomed to prolong its temporary irrelevance.

^*Or, as Countertop would say, pigs get slaughtered.