{"id":1564,"date":"2005-03-31T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/having_the_answers\/"},"modified":"2005-03-31T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T19:16:51","slug":"having_the_answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/having_the_answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Having The Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleavelin.net\/archives001\/00000208.html\">Brock<\/a> highlights this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2005\/03\/31\/reynolds\/\">Professor Reynolds nugget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the defining characteristics of conservatism, I thought, was a belief that one didn&#8217;t know all the answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That may be true of some economic conservatives.  But sadly it&#8217;s not the case for the moral rightist conservatives, who believe they <i>do<\/i> have the answers for what ails America.  And they&#8217;re not going to let pesky laws, courts, or constitutions get in their way.<br \/>\nReynolds speculates this Schiavo matter may signal a rift in the Republican party.  I&#8217;m less optimistic.  Certainly the GOP powers that be will soon hoist a less divisive banner (the flag, pledge of allegiance, the Beatitudes, apple pie) under which the troops will regroup.  As the <i>Daily Show<\/i> recently pointed out, there&#8217;s a principle for every occasion.  And I&#8217;m sure someone will be pulling another out of the hat shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/having_the_answers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Having The Answers\"><p>Brock highlights this Professor Reynolds nugget: One of the defining characteristics of conservatism, I thought, was a belief that one didn&#8217;t know all the answers. That may be true of some economic conservatives. But sadly it&#8217;s not the case for the moral rightist conservatives, who believe they do have the answers for what ails America. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}