Why Conservatism Fails Now

I don't know why we listen to the conservatives who seem to want to find any way to defend their policies and to attack the Democrats. There is never a sense of seeing that they have made a very huge mistake in the ways in which the country and the world have been altered according to their own false perceptions. Michael J. Gerson has been on the airwaves too much lately talking up his new book with its "brave" title. I have a feeling this man would like to run for office himself. Unfortunately, he is as incapable of reversing the image of the conservative movement as anyone else who takes on that task and the reason is simple--they have completely failed to both move this country forward in any kind of meaningful way and when it comes to trying to discuss the problems they have created, they refuse to see why their ideas didn't work and just want more chances to fail more.
I realize that there are times when healing is an important issue in any time of great upheavel. However, the upheavels have not ended. We are not finished with the kinds of empty rhetoric accompanied by the narrowly defined reasons for hopeful assessments of the what the Bush administration has bequeathed us all. There is nothing but disaster after disaster to look at no matter which way you turn and that is not some partisan jab at the conservatives in this country but an honest assessment of what conservatives have failed to do and have failed to correct for. By asking us to also place blame on the Democrats when they had a majority in the House and Senate while this train wreck was occurring and then to say there was inaction in the Congress is like asking us to look in the mirror and not see ourselves. They continue to posit these Alice in Wonderland statements and to lie as if there were no reason to tell the truth and then expect us all to fall in line and continue these policies that are pointing to nothing but their own shame and failure.
It really doesn't matter that the "surge" is working in Iraq because the numbers of people who have been destroyed, the amount of property destroyed, the infrastructure destroyed, the faith in their own futures destroyed and you really think we can sit down and talk rationally about the effectiveness of the "surge."
What we can talk about is how every one of their policies was wrong to begin with, that they lied and falsified everything in order to go to a war that never should have been fought. I don't care how they justify it now and tell us what a great job they are doing now. They never should have been there to begin with and had they told us from the start why, the real reasons we had to go to war and let us honestly vote on it, then we could all say, yes, it was a failure that we all participated in. But no! Their idea of democracy is to get their way anyway they can and never mind what others with opposing views feel or think.
So, yes, conservatism is dead, thank God for that. It has died and those trying to resurrect it like Michael going on the radio and television to plug his awful book with its "daring" title, ought to be glad that it has failed and find something more suitable to the real world in which we all live that meets the needs of everyone not just themselves and their friends.
After all, had they really cared about any kind of fiscal or governmental responsibility we most likely would be sitting here talking about things with our budgets at surplus levels and our world not quite so fractioous a place.