If not, he certainly believes that things like the Internet can be created by expert-politicians. That is horrifying. That is where traditions come from. This natural self-regulation of society is where manners, culture, and language come from. Al Gore is like the suit from marketing who keeps coming down to your offices with a new memo explaining why you shouldn t write the best code, but the best-selling code.
Conservatives have no such illusions about managing the Internet.
Conservatives view the Internet as another market, and we don t like messing with markets except in dire circumstances. On the one hand, I think it is unseemly for people who owe their success to a president to badmouth that president while he s still in office. I don t like it now. But then, some people point out that loyalty isn t inexhaustible. This president doesn t deserve a fraction of the loyalty he has received.