Why I Left the Anti-War Right

FrontPageMagazine ^ | 2/09/04 | Anthony Gancarski

[George W. Bush]

Quite a lot of words here when all that was needed was: "I'm irrelevant and politically confused. Won't someone hire me to write political commentary?"

A sad repetitive spectacle of recycling failed Left writers to the neo-con camp with the standard mea culpa. Next he'll be weeping a confession of how he cheered when the Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia or some such rot.

[tdadams]

Maybe this guy is sincere, but a few things strike me.

1) He's 30-something and just changed his ideology a few months ago. What and when will his next flight of fancy change him into?
2) One of the predominant points of his article seems to be emphasizing how influential he is.
3) Perhaps he's had this change of heart because, by his own admission, the leftist stuff he was writing didn't pay very well. Maybe he's seeing a better paycheck writing for the right.

[ChadGore]

there's an anti-war right ?

[hotpotato]

This author sounds completely confused and dangerously malleable.

My thoughts exactly. I wonder when the pendulum will swing again.

[Atlantic Friend]

Well, as you very nicely and very rightly put in a former post, foreign Freepers tend to defend their country through thick and thin. Barring extraordinary circumstances, I favor working hard for your own country over turning your back on it and look for other shores. I gather this must have been a difficult decision to the expat Freepers that come here

Plus, even if such a mass emigration was to take place, I would stay a Frenchie in my heart and in my soul. And so would most of these immigrants. What would you think of people whose love for their country could be discarded so easily ?
But thanks, man, it's nice to be appreciated !

[Lee'sGhost]

"Why I Left the Anti-War Right"

What the hell is that? I didn't know such a thing existed.

[Ichneumon]

He's 30-something and just changed his ideology a few months ago. What and when will his next flight of fancy change him into?

Actually, 30-something is an age when it's not uncommon for people to alter their ideologies, as their growing real-world experience overtakes their youthful but naive ideals.

[Poohbah]

But in the end, it wasn’t Ismail Royer that hastened my departure from Antiwar.Com. It was the suspiciously overexposed Groucho-Leninist Michael Moore.

BWAHAHA!

[hellinahandcart]

I don't know if he's as tapped into the "antiwar right" as he claims. He professes admiration for Pat Buchanan, and then can't get the name of his 2000 running mate right. It was a lady named Ezola Foster. I believe he was endorsed by Fulani or made an appearance with her or something, but this is like saying Dean's running mate was Al Gore .(Question: are there no editors at Front Page who could have caught this one?)

And what more can be said about a guy for whom no "alarms" were ringing about Justin Raimondo until November of 2003? Hoo boy...

[risk]

I was mostly joking, but in a half-serious way :)

Hey, we are so proud of ourselves here that we're sure everyone would want to come here and be one of us. Or at least we were. I've given up on that idea by now. I've had too many candid conversations with immigrants and guest workers who pretty much prove that they're here for the money, the fun, and the liberal social values.

We actually appreciate having both of you at home, defending what's politically best for your own countries, and helping Americans build a better image among your own peoples.

But I still wish we had more Americans like you.

[Poohbah]

Buchanan actively courted Lenora Fulani in his bid to take over the Reform Party.

That was when I realized that Pat Buchanan is no conservative. He's just a nationalist socialist.

[hellinahandcart]

2) One of the predominant points of his article seems to be emphasizing how influential he is.

And here I've never heard of him. Heh...

[Poohbah]

Actually, 30-something is an age when it's not uncommon for people to alter their ideologies, as their growing real-world experience overtakes their youthful but naive ideals.

There's a reason why "young" and "stupid" go together as felicitously as "Mom" and "apple pie."

[Publius6961]

I played into the can-you-top-this? mentality common among polemicists of the political extremes in the US. But the self-satisfaction among those who opposed the war in Iraq (whether from the right or left) and trumpeted every piece of bad news about the Administration or US soldier movements -- as if missteps validated their position! – began to strike me as misguided at best, and treasonous at worse.

This fellow is that rare bird, capable of having an epiphany based on what he has learned that he can't ignore, and the realization that people like Justin Raimondo suffer from a deep-rooted, irrational and (as yet) unexplainable mental illness.

[hellinahandcart]

Nevertheless she was not his running mate. If the author had talked about Buchanan courting Fulani, flirting with Fulani, playing footsie with Fulani, I'd have no complaint. But calling her his running mate is a factual error. Journalists are supposed to avoid those. Editors are supposed to catch them.

I have the same problem with Chuck Baldwin insisting that Ozzy Osbourne was invited to dinner at the White House by President Bush, when he was only invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner by Greta Van Susteren. Baldwin never corrected it either; probably because the "error" was an important part of his "Is Bush the Anti-Christ?" rant, so he let it stand.

[BadAndy]

Reading this article was a complete waste of time.

[wayoverontheright]

Who was Justin Raimondo? Why was he so lacking in respect for a sitting President?

The epiphany apparently began with Raimondo's personal attack on W.

I realize this guy is wordy but I was interested in the process by which he was delivered from the dark side, insight which might guide us as we try to create more converts.

It is obvious that at some point Bush's personality connected in such a way that Tony couldn't join in the bashing. Watch for Bush's poll numbers to go up after yesterday, he may be halting and lacking verbally, but his conviction and simple logic both resonate with ordinary people, and his exposure to the public in this type of forum is a good thing for our side, IMHO.

[Ichneumon]

I realize this guy is wordy but I was interested in the process by which he was delivered from the dark side, insight which might guide us as we try to create more converts.

Exactly. I was thinking the same thing.

[dirtboy]

I moved over to Antiwar.com to write a weekly column for them at $25 per pop.

We can see what the marketplace of ideas thinks of Antiwar.com.

[dirtboy]

With this guy's inability to be concise, he's working for about .0000000025 per word.

Justine Raimondo has always about quantity over quality.