A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Unhappy conservatives

The American Conservative asked an eclectic group of thinkers on the Right (broadly speaking) to offer their endorsements for the election. Interestingly, by my count there are four Obama voters, two McCain voters, and twelve people who say they will either vote third party, write someone in, or not vote at all. This isn’t too surprising given that TAC leans paleocon and John McCain tends to push paleo buttons, especially on foreign policy and immigration questions. It remains to be seen whether the fractious dissident conservatives (a curious amalgam of realists, disillusioned neocons, libertarians, and traditionalists) can make some impact on the direction of the American Right after the election and the (presumed by nearly everyone at this point) GOP bloodbath.

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