There Is Not Just One "Conservative" Viewpoint

Rod Dreher has a good post up at What is a conservative?

I really wish all the branches of the conservative movement would call a cease fire on each other . I think it is doing a lot of damage. I am not saying there should not be debate but the rhetoric is getting poisonous and destructive and has been for some time.

I got into this argument last night. People were saying John McCain was a moderate or liberal. What? I see this all the time. It is hard to see someone that has an American Union Conservative rating like he does as some moderate. True he took some positions that many disagreed with on immigration(in which there is not one conservative position, drilling in Alaska, the gang of 14(which I supported) etc etc. But his Cardinal sin was campaign fiance reform(which I opposed) that pretty much made him public enemy number 1 among many inside the beltway groups.

Huckabee has been called a Christian Socialist at the National Review and the Club for Growth types call anyone that entertains a gas tax a liberal. I am even hearing this charges against people like Jindal and Palin. It gets all silly after a while.