Stephen, I nearly blogged about this but decided it would just raise my blood pressure for no good reason. The least of the problems with this doll is that this self-proclaimed champion of conservatism is portrayed wearing a skirt that two generations ago even a leftist wouldn’t have been caught dead in. Way to resist cultural degradation, O icon of conservatism.
But it’s the comments that this doll makes that defy belief. (I refuse to insert a link to this thing. One example: “Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?”) Here is what conservatism has become: an ideology for 10-year-olds, and/or for people who never ask any fundamental question, never have a single original thought, and who believe that being “conservative” means being a shill for the establishment. Or that it’s “conservative” to want to spread chaos in two different countries, and then, absolutely refusing to learn any lessons from those fiascoes, continue to salivate over the prospect of spreading more destruction to half a dozen more countries — all the while maintaining the eerily Orwellian claim that this insane strategy will make us “safer.”
How would Russell Kirk have felt about that, do you think? Richard Weaver? Any conservative with an IQ over 60?
3:42 pm on October 24, 2003
