If it seems so, it's because Rockwell's gang don't see the complexity and contingency of events. They are dogmatists and view everything through the same oversimplified formulas.
Firm adherence to principle is a good thing, but I'm not sure that continual reiteration of the same arguments is.
For Rockwellites the world is a static system that always works out for the best if it's left alone. But things are always changing, and for the rest of us, everything isn't always for the best, especially not in a world that has seen Hitler, Stalin and now Bin Laden. The idea that peaceful economic exchanges between individuals will always work out for the best may have some validity, but it doesn't apply to crime, war or terrorism.
The Rockwellites do an admirable job countering the liberal cry "We have to do something about this!" But they forget that in the real world, there are some things that we do have to do something about. We can't always just analyze away difficult situations and expect them to resolve themselves on their own. I have no doubt that there are those who would love to impose their power and their idea of order on the rest of us, but I also see that sometimes action now is necessary to prevent future losses. Rockwellites don't know or ignore this.
Rockheads love to debate, but there doesn't seem to be any internal debate in their ranks. None of the usual contributors to their website ever say that Lincoln may not have been a monster or a tyrant or that Pearl Harbor might not have been Roosevelt's fault. To give credit where it's due, they do post those who have attacked them on the website, but the hard core of Rockwellites is quite conformist, and never takes a step out of line.
A lot of crazy things get said and written in times like these, and the rigidity of Rockwell's crew may look comforting and reassuring. But others are trying to make sense of a world in which limits and bounds and definitions no longer seem to fit the old patterns. Maybe they'll succeed in doing so. The Rockwellites aren't even trying and simply attack those who develop views which differ from their own.
It's not that their principles are wrong or unworthy. It's just that they're too quick to assume that things are simpler than they are and that those who don't agree with them have some evil agenda. You have to spend at least a little time in the labyrinth of reality before you can show others the way out.
For my part I would attribute that to the fact that neither of those assertions are true. But more seriously, that would hardly have a place on the site. Lincoln and Roosevelt have been so deified in the popular mind that a necessary balance is needed, it is the place of Rockwell's site to provide that balance, and to take less than an extreme opposite view would hardly serve the purpose. It has always been my practice, when prevalant views seem to me to be excessively one-sided, to take the extreme opposite view, rather than to try, rather than to try at all cost to take some moderate intermediate position. Too many of the people whom I know that do the latter do it more to play the role of the sweet reasonable condescending moderate, than out of genuine principle, and I find that repugnant. That is why I like the Rockwell site. I agree with most of the usual contributors most of the time. Most of the views expressed there are opposite to the unexamined majority view. That makes the site valuable. Particularly now, when people are being stampeded and we keep hearing that now is not the time to reflect or examine our opinions, but we should simply unite behind our leaders and except what they tell us we need to except if we are to be considered loyal citizens. I think LewRockwell.com offers a necessary antidote to that and for that reason it is valuable. And that is what I intended by my statement.