Conservatives Without Conscience (39 page)
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Authors: John W. Dean
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Rhodes, John
Rice, Condoleezza
Rights and the Common Good: The Communitarian Perspective
(Etzioni)
Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, The
(Micklethwait & Wooldridge)
Right-wing authoritarianism
Right-Wing Authoritarianism
(Altemeyer)
Right-wing authoritarians (RWA)
characteristics of
as conservatives without conscience
followers, authoritarian.
See
Followers, authoritarianleaders, authoritarian.
See
Leaders, authoritarianmotivations of
profile of
scale
Rikan, Heidi.
See also
Dieter, Cathy
Risen, James
Roberts, John
Roberts, Pat
Robertson, Pat.
See also
Christian Coalition
anti-Semitism
attempts at molding Supreme Court
calls for assassination
comments on Ariel Sharon
as Double High authoritarian
hypocrisy of
preaching of fear
presidential campaign
support for Israel
support for Republicans in 1994 elections
view of racial equality
view of women
Robertson, Willis
Roe v. Wade
Rogers, Joel
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, James
Rosenbaum, Ron
Rosenfeld, Sam
Rossiter, Clinton
Rove, Karl
Rudy, John
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusher, William
Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
RWA.
See
Right-wing authoritarians (RWA)
Safire, William
Salazar, Ken
Samples, John
Santorum, Rick
Sasser, Jim
Saucier, Gerard
Savage, Charles
Scalia, Antonin
Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, The
(Sider)
Scanlon, Michael
Scarborough, Melanie
Schardt, Bill
Schiavo, Terry
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Schlessinger, Laura, Dr.
Schneider, Gregory L.
Schoenwald, Jonathan M.
Scopes trial
Scotchie, Joseph
Scott, Hugh
Scowcroft, Brent
SDO.
See
Social dominance orientation (SDO)
Senate
authoritarian conservativism in
cloture vote
Gang of Fourteen
rules governing
September 11 terrorist attacks.
See
9/11 terror attacks
Sessions, Jeff
1776
(McCullough)
The 700 Club
Shachtman, Tom
Shadegg, John
Shafritz, Jay
Sharon, Ariel
Shays, Chris
Sidanius, Jim
Sider, Ronald J.
Silberman, Laurence
Silent Coup: The Removal of a President
(Colodny & Gettlin)
Simon, William
Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right
(Coulter)
Smith, Christian
Smith, R. Jeffrey
Snowe, Olympia
Social conservatives.
See also
Christian conservatives
authoritarian origins of
examples of
irrational thinking of
J. Edgar Hoover
Paul Weyrich
Phyllis Schlafly
Spiro T. Agnew
Social dominance orientation (SDO)
survey
Social dominators.
See also
Leaders, authoritarian
Bill Frist.
See
Frist, Billcharacteristics of
as conservatives without conscience
Newt Gingrich.
See
Gingrich, NewtPat Robertson.
See
Robertson, PatTom DeLay.
See
Delay, Tom
Sociocons
Sodaer, Abe
Souter, David
Southern Manifesto
South Park
conservative
Spong, Shelby
St. Clair, James
Starr, Kenneth
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
(Risen)
Stefancic, Jean
Stern, Seth
Stevens, John Paul
Stevens, Ted
Stevenson, Richard W.
Stewart, Scott
Strauss, Leo
Strict Father model
Submission to authority
Sullivan, Andrew
Sullivan, William
Sulloway, Frank J.
Summers, Anthony
Supermajority
Supreme Court
Chuck Colson’s attempt to nullify decisions of
current makeup of
George W. Bush appointments
Harriet Miers nomination to
Pat Robertson’s attempts at molding
Surveillance of Americans
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Sylvester, Peter
Taft, Robert
Taft, William Howard
Tajfel, Henri
Take Back the Right: How the Neocons and the Religious Right Have Betrayed the Conservative Movement
(Gold)
Talk radio.
See also
Limbaugh, Rush
Taney, Robert
Taranto, James
Taylor, Stuart, Jr.
TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP) survey
Terrorism
from a “detached perspective”
effect on policies of Bush administration
fear of terrorism as recruiting tool for Republicans
foreign-sponsored terrorism
libertarian response to
9/11 terror attacks.
See
9/11 terror attacksOklahoma City bombing
realists response to
risk of
Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC)
Theocons
Theoharis, Athan G.
Thomas, Cal
Thomas, Clarence
Thomas, Evan
Thornberry, Homer
Thurmond, Strom
TIPP survey.
See
TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP) survey
Torture
Abu Ghraib
Dick Cheney’s support for
John McCain’s amendments
“Toward an Understanding of Religion and American Public Life”
Tower, John
Traditional conservatism
compared to libertarianism and authoritarian conservatism
development of
Transplant: A Heart Surgeon’s Account of the Life-and-Death Dramas of the New Medicine
(Frist)
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
(Coulter)
Treaster, Joseph B.
Trilling, Lionel
TRMPAC.
See
Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC)
Turner, John C.
Typologies
USA Foundation
USA Patriot Act
Van Biema, David
VanDevender, Karl
Vaughn, Robert G.
Ventura, Jesse
Viereck, Peter
Viguerie, Richard
Wagner, David
Wallace, George
Wallace, Mike
Warner, John
Washington, George
Watergate
60 Minutes
story onstudies of
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Weaver, Richard
Webber, Mildred
Weisskopf, Michael
Welch, William M.
Westin, Alan
Weyrich, Paul
as Double High authoritarian
Whitewater
Why Americans Hate Politics
(Dionne, Jr.)
Why I Am a Reagan Conservative
(Deaver)
Wilkinson, Laurence
Will, George
Williams, Juan
Will
(Liddy)
Wilson, Clyde
Wilson, James
Wilson, Joseph
Wilson, Marc Stewart
Wilson, Woodrow
WMD.
See
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Wolfe, Alan
Wolfowitz, Paul
Woodard, J. David
Woodward, Bob
Wooldridge, Adrian
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
(Dean)
Wright, Betty
Wright, Jim
Ydstie, John
Yoo, John
Young, C. W. Bill
*
I do not record telephone calls. I do make notes, and after the conversation, if appropriate, I reconstruct the call. Most of the conversations relating to
Silent Coup
were written up within twenty-four hours of the conversation. In reporting them I have employed Bob Woodward’s technique of converting them back to dialogue and the salient points.
*
Throughout I use the term “cultural conservative” interchangeably with “social conservative.” While I am aware of efforts to define them separately, conservatives, the news media, and others use them interchangeably. So I have done likewise.
*
E. J. Dionne, Jr., pointed out in his book on American political history,
Why Americans Hate Politics
(1991), that Buckley wrote in
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?
that Richard Weaver’s definition of conservatives was “as noble and ingenious an effort as any I have ever read.” Buckley was referring to Weaver’s definition when responding to Chris Matthews.
*
Jay M. Shafritz (ed.),
The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics
(1993) defines “ideology” as
(1) A comprehensive system of political beliefs about the nature of people and society; an organized collection of ideas about the best way to live and about the most appropriate institutional arrangements for society…. But the term has evolved to mean the philosophical bent of true believers of whatever belief. The mainstreams of American politics have never been rigidly ideological; only the extremes of both major parties—on the far Right and far Left—are much concerned with correct rules of thought for the party’s most faithful…. But ideology seems to be making a comeback with the new Right. (2) Whatever one believes about the political process, whether it is articulated or not. (3) An interrelated set of ideas or a world view that explains complex social phenomena in a relatively simple way. (4) The selected and often distorted notions about how society operates. A group may adhere to such notions as a means of retaining group solidarity and of interpreting a world from which they have become alienated.