Case in point is conservative Professor Stephen Bainbridge who laments on “What might have been” for the conservative movement without Bush’s optional invasion and occupation of Iraq: “It’s time for us conservatives to face facts. George W. Bush has pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent. We control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and (more-or-less) the judiciary for one of the few times in my nearly 5 decades, but what have we really accomplished? Is government smaller? Have we hacked away at the nanny … Continue reading Some Conservatives are Beginning to Awake from the Nightmare