Conservative compromise...

(in response to Andrew Coyne's "Selling the Conservative soul" N.P. 01/20/07)

How tempting the current climate of conservative compromise, getting caught up in our own cleverness, and at the end of the day losing both principles and popularity, equally as empty as any Liberal.

The column was like the sudden sound of a bagpipe from the turret of the ivory tower, piercing the grey fog of day-to-day politics.

Mr. Coyne must be re-reading an Ayn Rand novel...