Y’know, I can’t shake my fascination with the Terri Schiavo case. Not the actual case per se, since I didn’t give a shit last week, but the political maneuvering involved and what effect it may have on the Republican party. That said, I’ve spent the last couple days trying to come up with something semi-original to say about the situation. My original plan for this post was to link to all the disgruntled conservatives and throw in the standard “It looks like they’re finally starting to get it.” Then to mix things up a bit I was thinking of linking approvingly to this poll that’s appeared on every other liberal blog and figure out a way to include the phrase “jump the shark”. That would have been a great post, but I changed my mind for two reasons :

Writing a meta-post about the process of writing a post would make me look smarter than I really am and be quicker to write. Why bother with finding interesting ways to restate the obvious when you can just type stream of conscious bullshit and pretend to deconstruct the post writing process instead?

More importantly, the whole “even conservatives can see how horrible things are” thing is a bunch of crap anyways. I remember reading conservative columnists grapple with themselves over the 2000 election fiasco, Bush’s tax cuts, Enron, the Iraq war, missing WMD’s, the Medicare bill, Abu Ghraib, Administration propaganda, etc. but in the end their criticism doesn’t do much good if they’re still willing to support the Republican party.

For all the crocodile tears shed over the death of traditional conservatism, it should probably be noted that the conservatives themselves are to blame for letting their party go off course without paying any political price. Traditional conservatism is on life support right now and they’re married to a political party that wants to pull the plug. Unless they’re okay with being put out of their misery, they’d be better off getting a divorce. (I’m going to stop now before this metaphor completely falls apart)