The Reluctant Conservative

April, 1996

As I Watch America start to move away from our centuries-old practice of having only two political parties, I feel compelled to add one more: the Reluctant Conservatives. We are the ones who think that Phil Gramm was way out of line when he crowed, "I was conservative before conservative was cool."Phil, you miss the point completely: Conservatism is never cool. It's all about hunkering down and staying static, or even going backward. The state of the union today is conservative---as it...