So I'm reading the latest Vanity Fair... Started off with an article on Delay. It was allright, but way too deferential. Fine. Thumb through the pages and I come upon an article discussing Republican discord. Ooo!
Starts off good enough, discussing Neo vs. Paleo Conservatives, but as I read along, something wasn't right, as if the author were biased or stupid. Then I came upon a side-by-side comparison of McCarthy and Reagan as the respective archetypes of "paleo" vs. "neo" conservatives. My eyes shot up the page to see who wrote this tripe only to learn that the Hitchens had struck once again. Good Lord, when are they going to fire that hack? Reagan is a neoconservative now?
This really completes it doesn't it? All the talk about Reagan's optimism and vision, which magically became the subsequent message de jure of the Bush campaign, and now we learn that Reagan was a neoconservative! Motherf***ers.