After reading this work, I wonder whether I might be a conservative after all! Edwards provides a very thought provoking look at what is means to be a conservative (versus a neo-conservative and modern-day Republican). Paralleling Alterman's Why We're Liberals, Edwards provides a summary description of conservative thought and how the current Republican party, Post-Bush I, has veered far from the standards of this thought.

As someone who is not a conservative, it is difficult to clearly judge the accuracy of Edwards' account; however, if his description (essentially Goldwater-esque) is accurate, than it makes sense that most Americans probably are conservatives. ( )