“The practitioners’ bludgeoning style of politics, their self-serving manipulation of the political processes, and their policies that focus narrowly on perceived self-interest — none of this struck me as based on anything related to traditional conservatism. Rather, truth be told, today’s so-called conservatives are quite radical. For more than 40 years I have considered myself a “Goldwater conservative,’ and am thoroughly familiar with the movement’s canon. But I can find nothing conservative about the Bush/Cheney White House, which has created a Nixon “imperial presidency’ on steroids, while acting as if being tutored by the best and brightest of the Cosa Nostra.” (Boston Globe op-ed) John Dean’s eloquent crucifixion of the Bush regime, one conservative to another.