Can That Old-Time Religion Rescue Conservatism?
By Kevin Lamb The latest round of restlessness on the Rightthe widespread dissatisfaction with the Republican Party and the disastrous legacy of the Bush Administrationis astutely captured in Tom Paukens new book, Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back. Pauken, a Goldwater-era conservative activist and veteran of the Nixon and Reagan administrations, was the chairman of the Texas Republican Party during George W. Bushs governorship, much to the latters disquiet, and is also the author of The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sixties Generation. Pauken launched his book at the National Press Club before a small gathering of reporters and conservative activists earlier this montha day before the release of fellow Texan and arch-nemesis Karl Roves much-hyped memoir, Courage and Consequence. My former Human Events colleague John Gizzi [email him] asked Pauken if his criticism in his book of the neoconservatives would unfairly shove individuals
