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If this is what conservatism has become, count me out
Washington Post ^ | February 25, 2018 | Max Boot

Posted on 02/26/2018 5:22:52 PM PST by C19fan

I’m used to being vilified by the far left as a bloodthirsty neocon warmonger for the Original Sin of having supported the invasion of Iraq along with 72 percent of the American public. It has been a little more surprising to be simultaneously vilified by the far right as a dangerous left-winger. David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine accused me of going “full leftist” for acknowledging that racism and sexism remain pervasive problems. Breitbart called me, with ironic quotation marks, the “Washington Post’s ostensibly new ‘conservative’ columnist,” because, among other sins, I support gun control and immigration. American Greatness wrote that I am a “soulless, craven opportunist” whose “brain is broken,” because I compared President Trump’s indifference to the 2016 Russian election assault to a president ignoring 9/11. For the same offense, Jack Posobiec — an Internet troll notorious for pushing the theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring out of a Washington pizza parlor — said I was “sick” and a “Russian propagandist.” In the Orwellian language of the far right, someone who wants to combat Russian aggression is a “Russian propagandist,” whereas someone who echoes Russian propaganda is putting “America first.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: betamale; lowt; maxboot; neocons; soyboy
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Jennifer Rubin has competition as to the most nasty "neo-con" at the Washington Bezos. The only thing I know about Boot was his cheerleading of Bush the Younger's wars to make the Muslim world safe for democracy.
1 posted on 02/26/2018 5:22:52 PM PST by C19fan
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I never counted Max Boot or Jebbifer Rubin as conservatives.

I know they tried to pass themselves off as such, but not many bought it.


2 posted on 02/26/2018 5:24:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

I love it when Leftists claim to be Conservatives, and they get bashed by everyone.

Cool!

I don’t know about this guy, but Jennifer Ruben is no Conservative by ANY stretch of the imagination.


3 posted on 02/26/2018 5:24:50 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: C19fan

Anyone who supports enacting more gun laws, which will do nothing but disarm law abiding Americans, is no Conservative.


4 posted on 02/26/2018 5:25:21 PM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: C19fan

Sounds like another butthurt Hillary voter.


5 posted on 02/26/2018 5:25:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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You’re a liberal,Max because you support gun confiscation, full stop.

Well, uh - bye.


6 posted on 02/26/2018 5:25:37 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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Anyone who doesn’t know the left is a far bigger threat to everything good about America than the right should just go be a liberal.


7 posted on 02/26/2018 5:26:08 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
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8 posted on 02/26/2018 5:26:21 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Almost sounds like an FR Opus but Maxie is even more stupid and whiny than most of the Opussers....


9 posted on 02/26/2018 5:27:24 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Jane Long

See ya’ around. Bye.


10 posted on 02/26/2018 5:27:38 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: Jane Long

there it is.


11 posted on 02/26/2018 5:27:43 PM PST by delapaz
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To: C19fan

Bye bye, don’t let the door hit you on your brain. Oh that’s right you lack a brain.


12 posted on 02/26/2018 5:27:55 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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Alternate title for the article: Me me me me me!


13 posted on 02/26/2018 5:27:58 PM PST by EdnaMode
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I am trying to understand where her conservative credential are coming from. With the litany of her beliefs she must be standing right next to that great conservative Hillary Rodham Clinton.


14 posted on 02/26/2018 5:28:55 PM PST by dirtymac
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We never counted you in you foul scum Boot.


15 posted on 02/26/2018 5:28:55 PM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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I’m OK with you joining the other side Max.


16 posted on 02/26/2018 5:29:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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So exactly what Republican ideas does he support? He’s anti gun, pro illegal, anti Trump and into social justice warrior politics of sexism and racism. He likes the military I guess?


17 posted on 02/26/2018 5:29:33 PM PST by Dragonspirit (President Trump do not give CNN a debate in 2020)
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I used to be a neocon.

But its hard to tell them apart from liberal these days.

And their backing of Hillary Clinton for me, was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

NeverTrumpers don’t appreciate Trump is more conservative than them.


18 posted on 02/26/2018 5:29:49 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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Sayz a Never Trumper Rooskie ‘Rat Utopianist.


19 posted on 02/26/2018 5:33:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fightin Whitey

There were some pretty epic flameouts during the primary.
I don’t remember the poster’s name but one of the threads went 1,000 posts.
Lot’s of inflammatory language.


20 posted on 02/26/2018 5:33:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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