Moral Relativity
Oct 31st, 2006 at 9:21 am by Susie
I liked this little dig from E.J. Dionne’s column this morning:
Conservatives should be embarrassed by Allen’s last-minute sliming of Webb’s books, since conservative critics have been among their biggest fans. In 2002 a writer for National Review, one of the nation’s leading conservative publications, said Webb’s “Fields of Fire” was “still the finest novel yet written about Vietnam.” Reviewing Webb’s novel “Lost Soldiers,” a writer for the conservative Weekly Standard warmly praised the book’s moral message and called it “an affecting and taut tale.”
Are such views now inoperative because Republicans desperately need to hold on to Allen’s Senate seat?
