More on conservatism

In comment #10 to Krugman's May 19th Blog Post, we find:

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. — John Stuart Mill

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” –John Kenneth Galbraith

Obviously there is no golden age of conservative “intellectualism.”

— Richard Sattler

Same as it ever was.