There was a time when I would have treated this sort of post half-seriously, as if it were making arguments that needed to be answered. Frankly, life is too short to waste more than a few minutes on such things. In the post, Donald Douglas makes all the usual moves impugning my patriotism because I do not sign off on illegal and immoral wars and do not indulge in displays of nationalistic self-congratulation, and he offers rehashed “new fusionism” as the true path. Following his guidance, pro-lifers can waste their political energies defending aggressive warfare and the national security state just as they have for the last few years. There is something sad and rather pathetic about a so-called “core values conservatism” that is so completely hollow. There is also something a bit amusing about a self-styled neoconservative rejecting Frum, Brooks and Perle (!) because they are clearly uninterested in going through the social conservative motions that the “new fusionist” scam requires.