St. Rudy's Attempt at a Godless Right

[rusty charly]

Ms. Mac Donald is a heroine to many in the conservative movement, in part because of her robust attacks on everything from feminist ideology (“lunacy”) to The New York Times (“a national security threat”).

She is also, not incidentally, a self-described nonbeliever.

“Skeptical conservatives—one of the Right’s less celebrated subcultures—are conservatives because of their skepticism, not in spite of it,” she wrote in the Aug. 28 issue of The American Conservative. “They ground their ideas in rational thinking and (nonreligious) moral argument. And the conservative movement is crippling itself by leaning too heavily on religion to the exclusion of these temperamentally compatible allies.”

The article ignited a firestorm that continues to sweep across conservative opinion journals and Web sites. Pundits including John Podhoretz, Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg have, to varying extents, made their disagreement plain. Philosophy professor (and Opus Dei member) Michael Pakaluk has complained that Ms. Mac Donald’s “mockery of common religious sensibilities … is so unfeeling as to border on the inhuman.”

http://www.observer.com/20060911/20060911_Niall_Stanage_opinions_wiseguys.asp

[MADem]

1. Well, that's one way of screwing him royally!

The thrice married bastard is reaching out to the XTIANS, while his conservative pal is beating the shit out of them...

That's not triangulation, that's tipping the cash cow!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Who wants to bet...

That the religious reich drives Ms. MacDonald to renounce either her conservatism or her lack of religious belief within a year? And any side bets as to which will be the one to go?