The end of liberalism: the president's convention speech is a conservative charter.

WHAT if they held a revolution, and nobody noticed? Most pundits have said that President Bush, in his convention speech, got bogged down in a "laundry list" of domestic-policy proposals. These proposals were generally understood merely as an answer to criticisms that Bush had not set forth his second-term agenda. Even conservatives sympathetic to the president have complained about the various spending initiatives contained in the speech. (The five or six conservatives proud to support big government applauded the same things.) These sorts of commentaries have missed a rather…