Internal debate a conservative strength

There has been a lot of debating amongst conservatives this year on a varirty of issues (see Harriet Miers). While many of us have found this discouraging at times, Jonah Goldberg makes an excellent point about the big picture:

If liberals really want to emulate conservative successes, I have some advice for them: Get into some big, honking arguments — not with conservatives, but with each other. The history of the conservative movement's successes has been the history of intellectual donnybrooks, between libertarians and traditionalists, hawks and isolationists, so-called neocons and so-called paleocons, less-filling versus tastes great. Liberals would be smart to copy that and stop worrying how to mimic our direct mail strategies.

Well said.