Conservative Policies = Failed Policies (again)

One of my most common disagreements with conservatives is about the very viability of their theory of governing. They believe that if Conservative governing is allowed to run uninterrupted, everything will be just perfect. Any failure, they love to suggest, is a result in deviations from pure conservative ideology. Like the movement itself, that line of thinking is just a fraud.

I am old enough to remember that after the Reagan presidency, when things were in disarray, it was claimed that it was because Reagan wasn't a real conservative. (Yeah, right!) Same thing with the first George H.W. Bush. He lost, they claimed, because he strayed from the faith. (Uh huhhh!) Today we hear as an excuse for the failed presidency of George W. Bush that he was not a real conservative. (Fool me thrice??) This is what conservatives do - sell a dream that cannot work and then claim it all fell apart because they didn't really do what they said they were doing. Well here's an opinion piece that sums up all this quite nicely. The main point of it all can be gleaned from this conclusion:

Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is not my beautiful Right.” They may ask themselves: “My God,what have we done?”But their movement is the same as it ever was. And Mr. Bush is movement conservatism’s true, loyal heir.