dangers of compassionate conservatism

[Brad De Long]

>[The WSJ editpage is truly a demented place.]
>
>Wall Street Journal - September 14, 1999
>
>THE DANGERS OF CONSERVATIVE COMPASSION
>
>By David Frum, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author
>of "How We Got Here," a history of life in the 1970s, forthcoming
>from Basic Books.

I am amazed. Where do they find them? (I know: they import them from 
Toronto...) Don't they know that they are supposed to wait until 
*after* the candidate has won the election before the true believers 
start tearing him limb from limb?

Brad DeLong