Conservatives

Much of the content of faith is counterintuitive, or more accurately, counter-conventional-wisdom like this experience of an English teacher in Damascus in which Arab Muslims express support for President Bush because he's " a strong leader, an honest man, and, most of all, a believer." There may be quite a few Iraqis who privately agree.

Many of the values held in contempt by the likes of Michael Moore, used to be the conventional wisdom and form the core of what conservatives want to conserve, rather than the straw-man positions typically ascribed to them by liberals. Many others are just the lessons of experience and logic from which our affluence has isolated us. Otherwise, socialism, entitlement programs and platitudes like the War on Poverty and the New Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society would be taken about as seriously today as Stalinism.