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I know a bunch of their leaders personally and I am not missing anything about paleos. They are eccentric characters not at all consistent with the conservative movement of modern times that nominated and elected Reagan. They constantly flirt with questions of ancestry and ethnocentrism. Real conservatives favor a strong military used as regularly as necessary or desirable to destroy the enemies of our nation and our civilization. Unlike Cain, we are often called upon to be our brothers' keeper.

Conservatives are pro-lifers and really mean it. They are not faux "constitutionalist" evasion artists like paleoPaulie. Real conservatives support the institution of the family against attempts by Lance and Bruce to play marital make-believe. Or Lance and Bruce and their dog Gruff. Not even if they include the "family" goldfish and turtle. There are just some places where our toys do not belong.

Globalism is internationalism. Conservatism is interventionism. Wimpy cowardice in matters foreign and military is paleowhateverism.

Real conservatives do not pose for holy pictures as fiscal conservatives while stuffing appropriations bills with massive pork for their districts, while voting against the bills for cosmetic purposes, while more honest thieves pass the bills and the Galveston pork along with their own.

Actual pro-lifers and conservatives do not pose for holy pictures on the one hand, while denying federal jurisdiction over abortion (wink, wink, folks, no worry that the libertoonians will lose their precious "rights" to kill their innocent unborn under SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade), while nonetheless filing pro-life bills in Congress which will go nowhere just because the paleowhirlingdervish is the sponsor. I would think that you would agree that this is not an issue where such dishonesty and fraud are tolerable.

I did not realize that El Run Paulie had a gang. They certainly were not very visible in last year's primaries, despite the anti-American media's best efforts.

You misunderstand what "paleoconservative" means. Definitions:

1. A phony and a fraud posing as "conservative" i.e. Ron Paul; and

2. Political dead meat.

Oh, and since you brought it up, "neoconservative" means one of a number of octogenarian and nonogenarian mostly NYC intellectuals formerly associated with socialism and a moderately hard left who fled the Demonrat Party and their own leftist views on many things when the soviet Americong seized the Demonrat Party under McGovern, circa 1972. Most are dead now (Sidney Hook and others). Some are still with us: Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol? and a few more. They are a remarkable group who were willing to defect to our side. They are not notable UN lovers or internationalist anythings. They simply do not stick their heads in the sand hoping that the baaaaad men will just go away. As one of them (Walt Whitman Rostow) said to LBJ in response to the wimpy dreamy nostrum of seeking to reach the "hearts and minds" of the reds in Vietnam: "Grab them by their short hairs and their hearts and minds are sure to follow." Rostow had it right on that score. El Run Paulie, Al Qaeda spokesman in Congress and his paleopals do not get it and probably never will.

I am one conservative who had a bellyful of peacecreep scum thirty some odd years ago and I will not change my mind about them or their successors now or ever.