Now I know that Lew Rockwell is a Libertarian(I probably should have put libertarian in all caps), but he does have several cogent points to make. One little gem: "Conservatism seeks power, adores power, exalts power, and has only one agenda: more power."
The title is "Shills, Paid and Unpaid" and is about the "journalists" who have sold out for money or career advancement to George's cult of personality. And the ones who take the money aren't the worst of the lot.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/shills.html"The sickening personality cult that has formed around Bush is only one aspect of this, but it is an inevitable one. No matter what form of government, whether monarchical, democratic, or communist, the belief that the person at the top is more godlike than the rest of us is everywhere a feature of what Mises called statolatory, the view that the state is an "eternal and superhuman institution beyond the reach of earthly frailties."
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The obvious examples of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini stand out, but to a much lesser extent even the local mayor of your town benefits from the glow of power. People exaggerate the personal merits of people with power, romanticizing their personal histories and fantasizing about their "vision" of the future. This has been true from the ancient world to our own, and probably stems from some madness in the soul of man. (The really smart political leaders feign to repudiate these cults, as Caesar pretended to refuse the crown.)
Intellectually, the tendency toward power worship was torn asunder by the great liberal revolution that began in the middle ages and culminated in 1776, with the generation that proclaimed that political rulers were worthy of distrust, in need of being restrained, and ultimately dispensable. This attitude toward politics came about not because the liberals hated the people with power, but because they saw power itself as destructive of the order that liberty itself creates. They came to realize that the good society is not created by great leaders but by the coordinated actions of all individuals in society in their private and commercial lives. It was this revelation that pulled back the curtain and showed the whole world what power has always conspired to hide: the people at the top are pretentious fools, and a source of disorder.
The problem with Gallagher and Williams is not that they were paid to say what they believed. It is what they believe, namely that the person of George W. Bush will restore the family and that the person of George W. Bush will make sure that no child is left behind. These are the views of totalitarians, not advocates of a free society. If you are going to sell your soul to the state, and try to fob off state control and war as the essence of freedom, it makes sense to at least have something to show for it. The overwhelming number of Bush worshipers get nothing in exchange for their sacrifice of heart, mind, body, and soul."