Karl Rove is a smart guy, but he’s a businessman whose business is influencing elections on behalf of his business-oriented donors. In our observation Rove has no intellectual or personal commitment to a grassroots political movement based limited government constitutional conservative principles – and that’s perhaps as it should be – since his donors do not necessarily benefit from a government of strict constitutional limits and advancing his donors’ interests is Karl Rove’s job in what is essentially a commercial transaction. Including any establishment Republican on a list of those “on the Right” merely because of Party affiliation, not the policies they pursue, misses the fundamental fault line at work in the Republican Party today and dilutes the definition of “conservative” to the point that it no longer distinguishes conservatism as a principle-based movement. Conservatism is, and should be, a broad-based popular movement open to all who share a commitment to the governance of this country according to strict constitutional limits. John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Karl Rove are Republicans all right, but grassroots conservative voters, who at the end of the day are those who define what it means to be conservative or “on the Right” long ago decided these Republicans aren’t conservatives.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:05:52 +0000
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