Leonard Pitts, a liberal columnist I rarely agree with – is absolutely right here. This also appeared in today’s Post & Courier:
“There was once a day when conservatism was driven by principles: smaller government, less-intrusive government, strong national defense, fiscal sobriety. But in the years since that day, the putative heirs to Reagan have trampled not just those principles, but also principle itself.
The ideology that wanted small government now presides over expanded government, the one that wanted less intrusion now seeks to regulate bedroom behavior, the one that demanded strong national defense has run the military into the ground, the one that championed fiscal sobriety turned a $236 billion budget surplus into a $400 billion deficit. And if thoughtful conservatives see the disconnect, if they have the intellectual integrity to find it shameful, the newsflash is, thoughtful conservatives no longer predominate their ideology.”
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“Leonard Pitts, a liberal columnist”
I’m sorry but Pitts is more then just a “liberal writer”. He is a racist prick who if he was white would never be able to say half of what he does.
This quote couldn’t be more accurate.
Just because you can’t see the garbage that black people have gone through, which he has lived, not to mention his family, doesn’t make him racist. He’s trying to open the eyes of the fools like you that are too naive to think there’s still racism in America.