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I think it's a significant oversimplification to equate conservative political thought with support of George W. Bush. You're absolutely right that conservatives are posting less and less in Tilted Politics, but I think this has more to do with TFP than with anyone's opinions about the President. In my personal experience, posting in Tilted Politics is exhausting because very nearly everyone disagrees with my positions on any issue I might care to discuss. The fact of the matter is that dialogue only happens when people disagree over at least some debatable points. Hence, the fact that fewer conservative posters results in less heated debate. As I learned to my sorrow last September, a very large number of TFP members have some extremely flawed fundamental assumptions about politics that they do not wish to have challenged. Consequently, I have not again felt the need to engage in any sort of radical critique of the leftist thought that is taken for granted in this forum.
What I'm really trying to say is that the liberal majority in Tilted Politics is interested in discussing only a narrow range of issues that are predicated on false assumptions about the nature of politics. Sound like fun to you? Me neither.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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