The Latest from Christopher Bu T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII

by Little Miss Attila on March 8, 2009

His [my father’s] beloved sextant is a constant reminder of my grave responsibility as conservatism’s new helmsman, and a testament to the timeless truth that fate favors the bold—and the well-bred.

This was, as you know, the theme of the National Topsider’s exclusive January conference at the private Breakers Club in Nassau where I hosted a veritable murderer’s row of top tory thinkers to diagnose the troubles with conservatism. Dame Peggy Noonan was there, of course, along with Kathleen Parker, Douglas Kmiec, and those two mighty Davids of conservative intellect, Brooks and Frum. But enough of the namedropping.

The order of the day, after mixed badminton doubles, was to formulate an Rx for our ailing patient. In this regard we were in surprising accord: in order to survive, conservativism simply must start appealing to a better class of people. The sad fact of the matter, as we noted, is that one no longer finds admitted conservatives in any of America’s prestige zip codes nor the faculty redoubts of her selective academies. During our Bahamian summit many gambits were proposed to win back America’s elite electoral precincts from the left; sponsoring various hip hop colloquia at the better Ivies, supporting integration of gays into Nascar, endorsing state ownership of the means of production. Rod Dreher, whose sensational exegesis “Crunchy Cons” sold well over 200 copies last year, recommended a full embrace of the environmental movement, which as I understand is quite the rage among youthful voters and the trendsetting thespians of Hollywood. Good and bold ideas all, and necessary steps to get the movement started again. But there remains a daunting obstacle—namely, the benighted rubes who constitute so much of our so-called “base,” and whose existence make it nigh on impossible to recruit their social betters.

It turns out that a big part of the problem is this Rush Limbaugh person. Who knew?

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adagioforstrings March 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Completely, or mostly, ott, but on the topic of iowahawk. Who is the guy in the back seat of his mock photo:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/02/with-apologies-to-magaret-bourkewhite.html

Obama & Nancy Pelosi are in the front seat. Reid is in the back seat, but who is sitting next to Reid? I don’t recognize him & it has been bugging me….it doesn’t look like BIden, who would be the obvious choice

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I R A Darth Aggie March 9, 2009 at 6:49 am

Is it Geithner?

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adagioforstrings March 9, 2009 at 9:26 am

Aha! It just might be Geithner! Perhaps he’s there to pay the gas bill, since he doesn’t pay his taxes…

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