Outstanding Writing on the Current State of Conservatism.

George Will is one of the best conservative commentators/intellectuals. He never minces words and says it for what it is even if it means criticizing the current crop of pseudo-conservatives. There are very few of them anymore, another one being David Brooks. There are times I do not agree with them but their erudition and the breadth of their knowledge, especially George Will leaves you stunned. Most of the other conservative commentators have all sold out. Bush, his cohorts and the current crop of Republicans were never conservatives in the true sense. All they needed was a whiff of power and money to sell out. Money quote from George Will's column in The Washington Post today: "Until the Bush administration, with its incontinent spending, unleashed an especially conscienceless Republican control of both political branches, conservatives pretended to believe in limited government. The past five years, during which the number of registered lobbyists more than doubled, have proved that, for some Republicans, conservative virtue was merely the absence of opportunity for vice." You can read the rest of his column here.