On social issues, most Americans reject Republican dogma. They support early abortion. They oppose a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. They don't feel unsafe that the death penalty is used half as often as it was eight years ago and don't fear gun control.
Keep dreaming. Just try rounding up our guns.
Anybody who thinks George Bush is a "conservative" is just a mindless noisemaker anyway.
What you're misreading in your leftist fantasies are a couple important factors:
Most Americans rely on the establishment media for what information they do get, and while they may indeed form opinions, the strength of their convictions do not translate into the tireless activism needed to win the day for their positions.
Yet even with this, we see two-thirds believe in an individual right to own a gun.
I don't know where he gets the figures to back up his other assertions--they sound like wishful thinking--but I will say the ascendancy of Ron Paul, along with the enthusiastic support he's garnering, indicate a growing body of people hungry for solutions not from the iron fist of the state, what Andrew Cohen's neo-Marxist cheerleading urges us to embrace, and more toward innovative solutions possible only in a climate of individual liberty.
[Via Bruce Mills]