Quoth the non-sequitur: "Squack! Tu quoque! Tu quoque!"
Oh, and BTW, Masters wrote for H.L. Mencken and is almost universally recognized as having political views that were "Jeffersonian." Says Matthew Norman in a University of Illinois publication:
"Masters thought Jefferson was the greatest American statesman, and he viewed American history as a continuing struggle between Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian principles. This Manichean interpretation of history is evident in Masters's writing as early as 1904, when he published a collection of political essays entitled The New Star Chamber. In those essays, Masters praises Jefferson as the man "who gave form and purpose to the republic," while Hamilton is condemned as a monarchist whose policies amounted to nothing less than "imperialism."14 As early as 1904, Masters feared that the republic of Jefferson had decayed into a corrupt Hamiltonian empire."
His politics were also characterized by a belief in isolationism - traditionally a conservative viewpoint. So, non-seq, are you telling me that Jefferson, H.L. Mencken, and all the right wing isolationists of the early 20th century were communists?
Well if it isn't the tu quoque boss himself. I was wondering when you would show up.
So I'll take this post to mean that in GOPcapitalistland it is perfectly OK for someone to be a Communist so long as he has got his head right on the Lincoln issue? Something I had long suspected but it's nice to have it confirmed.