Nolan Finley, Detroit News columnist and editorial page editor, in today's column on Hurricane Katrina.
"... the conservative movement's principles have given way to partisanship. The words 'conservative' and 'Republican' are now interchangeable, and it's more important to protect the party than to hew to core values."
"I don't see anything particularly conservative in the bumbling going on in Washington. If that's what conservative looks like, count me out."
Straight from the bastion of pure, reflexively antigovernment, antitax Midwestern Republicanism. He uses the idea that no private executive who did what Brown did would survive; maybe that's a good talking point to use against Bush himself.
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