“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.” IfsYearsI CanCoursesLosesRepublicanDeserveVoteCrisisDemocratCastsConservativeDuesOur TimeVotingVotersWrathInadequateMccainGood FaithWithholding Author:Rod Dreher
“At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.” MenEnoughDemandConscienceMen And WomenConservativeDebateInnocentPenaltiesDeath PenaltySanctityInnocent Life Author:Rod Dreher
“It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move in that direction. It is morally right. It is religiously correct. It is economically prudent. It strengthens national defense. And it makes a better world for our children, and our children's children.” IfsWorldWantChildrenMovingEasyPrinciplesOur ChildrenGreenConservativeDefenseBeing TruePrudentNational Defense Author:Rod Dreher
“...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.” WorldSelfUseChristianValuesLeftNaturalAttitudeImpossibleAbuseConservativeLike MeTraditionalBeing TrueExcessRighteousNatural WorldChristian FaithEnvironmentalistSelf RighteousLaissez FaireConservative ValuesUse And Abuse Author:Rod Dreher
“As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.” IdeasWould BeDesireTurnsAcceptingModernDemandLimitsEternalConsequenceResourcesClimateClimate ChangeConservativeArrogantCatastropheEverlastingRefusalEcologicalInsatiableKirk Author:Rod Dreher
“If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayBelieveHumansStatesHandsLeftInterestCommunityReligiousHuman BeingsSinActingEgoTraditionOriginalsConservativeDrivenContraryDevicesFlawedAbsentIf You BelieveOriginal SinRestrainingDisharmony Author:Rod Dreher
