Stanley Kurtz weighs in (at the Corner) about the of conservatism. I fisk.

I may not be a professor of “symbology,” but I have taught at Harvard and studied religious symbolism.

Translation: I'm a pompous ass from Haaarvaard. Has he published anything in this field? He doesn't say.

So I feel in a particularly strong position to reveal the entirely unsecret conspiracy against patriotism, tradition, and religion hiding in plain sight on our movie and television screens, in our universities, and on the pages of the mainstream press.

Same old song and dance. Everything is politics, and everyone is against us reds.

Conservatives have forgotten just how precarious our position is. One cable news channel, talk radio, and the blogosphere do not an invincible army make.

Oh, wait, we're in charge of the actual army. And the congress. And the judiciary. And the oil companies, and every other big company in America.

It only seems that way because we also have nominal control of the reigns of power. But lose our foothold in government, and conservatives are up a creek. The other side controls the levers of cultural power in this country, and we are the enemy in their eyes (and on their screens).

So, how's that conservative mandate working? Let's see, Iraq is pretty FUBAR, thanks to the admin's lack of a plan and lack of reconstruction.

Iran has or will have nukes, and we don't do anything about that.

Our deficit has soared, and we're in a serious energy crisis, because of shortsidedness and good old fashion congressional greed.

Yeah, they're hurting. My take, vote all the republicans out of power in 06 and 08, and elect real fiscal conservatives. Maybe I'll vote for McCain in 08.