A complete non-sequitur. "Pay[ing] lip service to the forefathers" and the ME do not naturally flow. Why should anyone pay more than "lip service" to the forefathers? They were men, afterall. It amuses me how some deify them. That's not to take away from the accomplishments they achieved. But they were men. Nothing but men. But you wouldn't know that listening to some people.
While an enlightened group of intellectuals will tolerate debate, the Neo-Cons have a policy of excommunicating any group that threatens their desire for ideological purity, thus fracturing the potential might of a truly Rightwing government.
I know you didn't. Look at FR, for example. If anyone desires ideological purity it's the far-Right! I, for one, am not having any of it.
NR's Bill Buckely excommunicated the Randians, Libertarians, and John Birchers in the '60s, and when Pat was making the most meaningful challenge to the ruling class in 1992, he was wheeled out to call Pat an anti-Semite.
JBS? You mean the ones who find a communist behind every tree? Spare me. "Ruling class?" Now you sound like a Marxist. And what do we have to do with libertarians?
By the way, Buchanan EARNED the label which you hate he has by what he said out of his own mouth. He has no one to blame but himself.
If their is a definable Rightist in this country, it is a person who believes that the current ruling elite needs to be replaces wholesale.
Shibboleth. Cornel West would agree with you about the replacing bit. That's not saying much, believe me.
The far-Right has no use for me and I for damn sure have no use for the far-Right.
Those men understood that which is why they made the Constitution amendable. You're right, they should not be deified but respected for what they did correctly.
They also knew that men were endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights and the three they spoke of were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That they didn't all practice it makes those words no less important. That one they got right.