What is wrong is that paleoPaulie is a crackpot whose policy is hate and blame America First. He won't be getting elected to Congress any more since Texas Republican state legislators have done their patriotic duty and eliminated his district. He then announced that, ummmm, he would not run again for Congress so that he could concentrate on his run for POTUS. Yeah, that's the ticket!!! We don't need the craven cowardice of the foreign policies of George McGovern and Neville Chamberlain and Sean Penn and Code Pink and Ramsay Clark grafted and transplanted onto the GOP. Nor shall we have it.
And again the phony misuse of the "neocon" label (shared by New Republic, the Nation and Paulistinians who all needed a common term to try to tear down the popularity of actual conservatism) . Neocons are a group of aged or dead formerly leftist (mostly) New York City intellectuals who fled the Demonratic Party when it was seized by anti-American communists under George McGovern, had its party rules changed to prevent patriots from being able to be nominated by the Demonrat Party conventions, and (mostly) transferred their allegiance to the GOP. Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Daniel Bell, Alexander Bickel, Sidney Hook, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and other giants of their generation. Most are gone now but they have left a stronger movement and a great legacy behind and they understood foreign and social policy far better than airhead hereditary Republican trust fund babies like James Baker, Upchuck Percy (actually a hand-chosen but windtunnel poor kid funded by the Rockefellers), anything named Romney, Muffy at the yacht club, Skipper at the polo club, the Junior League generally, and the delusional Troofers, Libertoonians and Holocaust deniers of the El Run Paulie "movement."
Ron Paul and his merry band of leftist college antiwar, antiAmerican, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, dope-smoking or snorting college trash and refugees from Woodstock are NOT going to alter the terms of the political discussion much less elect their hero to ruin the USA as POTUS. There are libertarians who have not lost their minds but Ron Paul is not a very good example. Don't paint all libertarians with the delusional paleoPaulie brush. He is a peace creep. He is a crackpot. He is the Harold Stassen of faux libertarians, an irritating dishonest dimwit and nothing more. No more deserving of conservative respect than was Cynthia McKinney.
For every alienated libertarian we lose, we will gain ten socially conservative and militarily aggressive working class Democrats who will be the next generation of Reagan Democrats. So long, Paulie! Take Chuck Hagel, Weepy Walter Jones and Jimmy Duncan with you when you go.
BTW, in nearly fifty years of conservative activism, I have yet to meet a single conservative who admired rather than despised Woodrow Wilson. We are no more enthusiastic for his League of Nations than we are for the United Nations, not fans of his Ku Klux Klan views as an historian, or his generally useless progressivism.
We take nothing for granted but I would not assume a close election. It looks right now as though Obozo will be Carter II in more ways than just policy failure. How did libertarians vote in 1972, 1980 and 1984? Did anyone bother to notice? Libertarians can get SOME of what they want on taxes and business regulation from the GOP but they need not hallucinate that they will be the tail that wags the dog (particularly on military, on interventionism, on the mass slaughter of innocent babies and on homosexual anything. Expansionism???? What expansionism? Try tobacco. Even tobacco is better for you.
Let me guess, you have every issue of Commentary magazine back to 1945 and you were up in the attic thumbing through a few. :-)
That post was awesome. You have a way with words and I’ll be looking for more of your jeremiads.
“Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she is become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she has not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter...”