{"id":4340,"date":"2011-11-17T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/conservatives-mindless-opposition\/"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:57:37","slug":"conservatives-mindless-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/conservatives-mindless-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives&rsquo; mindless opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/conservatives-mindless-opposition\/2011\/11\/11\/gIQAa33BJN_story.html\">Conservatives\u2019 mindless opposition &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<h5>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ej-dionne-jr\/2011\/02\/24\/ABhJNkM_page.html\">E.J. Dionne Jr.<\/a>, Published: November 13<\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]hat\u2019s the problem for conservatives.<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"> Their movement has been overtaken by a quite literally <em>mindless<\/em> opposition to government.<\/font> Perry, correctly, thought he had a winning sound bite, had he managed to blurt it out, because if you just say you want to scrap government departments (and three is a nice, round number), many conservatives will cheer without asking questions. \u2026 At their best, conservatives forced us to think harder. Now, <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">many in the ranks seem to have decided that hard and nuanced thinking is a telltale sign of liberalism<\/font>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Bennett from another context, where\u2019s the outrage about a conservatism that is losing both its intellectual moorings and its moral compass?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/conservatives-mindless-opposition\/2011\/11\/11\/gIQAa33BJN_story.html\">Conservatives\u2019 mindless opposition &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives\u2019 mindless opposition &#8211; The Washington Post&#160; By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: November 13 [T]hat\u2019s the problem for conservatives. Their movement has been overtaken by a quite literally mindless opposition to government. Perry, correctly, thought he had a winning sound bite, had he managed to blurt it out, because if you just say you want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/conservatives-mindless-opposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conservatives&rsquo; mindless opposition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}