Conservatism can win: Interesting article from Slate about how the latest scandals show that "Conservatives" were... fb.me/JGEi9Cu8
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 15, 2013
◼ Justifiable Cause: The Obama administration is making the case for conservatism better than Mitt Romney ever did. - John Dickerson/Slate
The Obama administration is doing a far better job making the case for conservatism than Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, or John Boehner ever did. Showing is always better than telling, and when the government overreaches in so many ways it gives support to the conservative argument about the inherently rapacious nature of government....
If these scandals are indeed affecting the ideological landscape, this is bad news for liberals. It’s not just that the opposite ideology is getting some help from government bunglers, but the media is exacerbating the problem. Liberals believe that there is a role for government to play in mediating market failures, and there are plenty of stories of areas where the safety net is thinning as a result of sequestration—from cancer treatments to Head Start to Meals-on-Wheels—where government should step in. But those stories get lost in the scandal coverage of an administration, making it look like conservatives fundamentally understand something that liberals do not.
