The Washington Times
In an interview with the Washington Times, Pat Buchanan the conservative movement fracturing due to "phonnies" who act like conservatives to reach a level of power.
Sadly, a lot of what he says is right. When you look at the main base of conservatism, you see the the Republican Party. When you see the republican party, what do you see? A bunch of cowering moderates in the senate, a President who is excellent on forign policy(For a lot of people anyways), but weak on spending; who is strong on values in the campaigns, but fails to act strongly durring his term. What you see is a fractured party whose leadership is either not very conservative anymore, (Heck, Delay is the only strong conservative I can think of at the moment), or is no longer being followed due to a fracturing of it's base.
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What Buchannan sees as weakness, I see as the strength of the Republican party. While the Democrats pride themselves on "diversity" and excoriate Republicans as "Narrow-mined bigots", it's the Demmocratic Party that will brook no dissent within its ranks. Look at how they've turned their back on liberal hawks like Joe Lieberman, or more conservative Dems like Zell Miller. Try going some place like DU and even suggesting for a moment that anything but the most stridently leftist position might be a valid point, and see how you're treated. The Republican party seems "fractured" because it has room for so many different views. And that also hones the political and philosophicalskills of Republicans, since they must not only debate the left, they must debate different issues within their own ranks, and learn how to manage to maintain party unity when it comes to matters on which they DO agree.
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