The Conservative Crack-Up

Rating:
Summary: Funny, insightful, self-delusional
Review: Pretty good wrap-up of a movement going nowhere fast--an irrelevant coterie of windbags though it does seem likely that a "conservative" will buy and slickly charm his way into the White House in 2000. The howler is that the author thinks that the modern conservative movement was led by Ronald Reagan, Irving Kristol and himself (and not necessarily in that order) and a few lessers. Further, Reagan and Kristol abandoned the game; Reagan, by being re-programmed by Nancy and her astrologer and Kristol, through Kristol's inordinate attention to the plight of the New York Knicks basketball team. Only the self-important Tyrrell was willing to fight the KULTURSMOG; everyone else was AWOL. The conservative reader would have thought Tyrrell had never heard of Patrick Buchanan.