Charles M. Blow: Back to the Future

My web site and company is named Kindred Minds.

This article by Charles M. Blow definitely establishes him as a Kindred Minds. His article is a reinforcement of my Weekly Ezine #36.

". . .earlier this week, the Republican governors whisked themselves away to Miami to lick their wounds. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota assured the morose assemblage that all was not lost. “We can be both conservative and we can be modern at the same time,” he said.

Yes you can, but first you have to dismantle the current definition of what it means to be conservative.

While the ideals of fiscal conservatism like lowering taxes and smaller government are timeless tenets, strict social conservatism is troglodytic because it desperately clings to outmoded mores and rigid restrictions."

Read the full article at the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/opinion/15blow.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

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