Inside the beltway
Posted at 8:56am on Jun. 9, 2008 Conservatism Is Not For Sale
Regardless how much it's been rented out of late
By haystack
Our own Ben Domenech has an editorial up at the Washington Times that is especially well-timed. Entitled "Conservative seeds of destruction", Ben reminds us of a fundamental truth about the so-called Conservative movement:
[I]f conservatism is to have any future, it is as a movement that does not put too much faith in the individuals who claim to espouse shared ideology.
Responding to McClellan's book, Ben suggests this:
[H]is tell-all book operates on the oldest of Washington principles: that everyone inside the Beltway has their price. His original book proposal reads like so many other axe-grinding reputation savers that will emerge from loyal out of work ex-Bush appointees over the coming year. Pedantic and uninventive, it has the same vibrant, colorful, and innovative personality Mr. McClellan brought to the press office podium: that of stale unleavened bread.
Unleavened bread indeed.
The book itself has faded from the headlines a week running, the number of Google hits dropping steadily, and McClellan will soon achieve the state of nothingness that always follows such adventures. He leaves behind some food for thought, however, in the larger context.
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