Conservative movement dying?

If property rights advocates thought they would find a friend in the new Bush administration, they certainly thought wrong. After eight years of socialistic policies from the Clinton administration, property owners were eager to support Bush. After all, candidate George Bush often trumpeted the themes of more freedom and less government while on the campaign trail. However, as pro-life and pro-family conservatives have discovered, so too property rights advocates must be realizing that Bush’s commitment to the conservative agenda is non-existent.

After betraying the pro-life cause by authorizing federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, Bush just last week betrayed the pro-family cause again by appointing another open homosexual to his administration. Furthermore, what has Bush done to assist the struggling farmers in the Klamath Basin? One word from Bush would turn the water back on and save 1,000 farms – however, Bush would rather put hard working farmers out of work in order to maintain a socialist, protect-the-fish policy enacted by his predecessor, and it just keeps getting worse.

MSNBC recently reported that the Bush administration is expanding the Endangered Species Act to protect such things as the pygmy rabbit in Washington State, the Tumbling Creek cave snail in Missouri and the arson wandering skipper butterfly in California and Nevada. Bush is also proposing that eight additional species be added to the endangered species list. Did I mention that Bush also wants to carve out “habitat” (from private property) for the Gila chub in New Mexico and Arizona and for freshwater snails in New Mexico. He does.

What is worse is that many professing conservatives have been taken in by Bush’s charm and are bending over backwards to accommodate his left-wing policies. Alan Keyes was right when he said, “The Bush administration is skillfully lobotomizing the moral conservative cause in America because it is unwilling or afraid to take the positions that are best for America.”

After only a few months in office, President Bush has abandoned the conservative position on virtually every principle worth noting. Whether the issue is the sanctity of human life, the pro-family cause, property rights, education, affirmative action, “new world order” policies, China, federal law enforcement abuses or limited government, Bush has surrendered conservative principles.

In fact, Bush is running away from conservative, constitutional policies faster than the Iraqi army ran out of Kuwait. Bush – not Hussein – has orchestrated the “mother of all retreats.” It is now time for conservatives to retreat from him. If conservatives stick with Bush, the conservative movement (if there is one anymore) is dead.