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Jonah talking sense
[Caleb Stegall 03/15 03:03 PM]Here’s Jonah in the Corner attacking Jeff Hart’s capitulation on abortion: As for the "demand" for abortion justifying abortion, this is really outrageous coming from someone who claims to despise populism. Indeed, he rests much of his criticism of Bush on the charge that Bush is a populist. But, simply because a large number of people want something he advocates — in this case abortion — pro-life conservatives should simply bow to "reality." By what standard of intellectual rigor should conservatives draw a line between what is right or wrong and what is merely popular if Hart is willing to cave to this logic on abortion? Well well. If only Jonah et al. would show a little consistency. His last question is perfectly valid, and, I might add, so is its reverse: If conservatives cave to the logic of “reality” (as Gallagher does, for example, and JPod and other’s critical of Rod have) in everything from religion to the market to the built environment to technology to upward mobility, by what standard of intellectual rigor will they draw a line between what is right or wrong when it comes to abortion or homosexual marriage?
Then again, when serious questions are dismissed with off the wall non sequiturs, we may presume that there is very little intellectual rigor left.
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