http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Goldwater Posts tagged with 'Goldwater' at MetaFilter. Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:31:19 -0800 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:31:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/49121/Hijacking%2DConservatism What unites hardliners like Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh -- their uncompromisingly conservative take on politics? In a provocative blog post titled <a href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/02/do-bush-followers-have-political.html">Do Bush followers have a political ideology?</a>, Glenn Greenwald persuasively argues otherwise. He believes that the conservative movement -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater">traditionally</a> against <a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/13803507.htm">big government</a>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/MNG41H78RK1.DTL">excessive spending</a>, and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902514.html">federal intrusion into the private lives of Americans</a> -- has been hijacked by something much more dangerous: an authoritarian <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0107064/MyImages/bush-lord.jpg">cult</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality">personality</a>, or as Greenwald puts it, "a form of highly emotional mass theater masquerading as political debate." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49121 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:31:19 -0800 Bush Cheney conservatism conservative Coulter cultofpersonality Goldwater GOP Hitler Limbaugh Malkin Mao O'Reilly Republicans Rove Stalin digaman