Kerry’s the One (American Conservative Magazine – Bush “unworthy of any conservative support)

The American Conservative ^ | November 8, 2004 issue | Scott McConnell

[Lady Jag]

Reason one of hundreds

KERRY WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-WAR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF OUR ARMED FORCES.

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He feels he has to burn the party in order to save it.

Luckily, he has zero influence on anybody's vote.

[CWOJackson]

The PRETEND they are conservative; they aren't.

[Pyro7480]

The Bush foreign policy also surfs on deep currents within the Christian Right, some of which see unqualified support of Israel as part of a godly plan to bring about Armageddon and the future kingdom of Christ. These two strands of Jewish and Christian extremism build on one another in the Bush presidency—and President Bush has given not the slightest indication he would restrain either in a second term.

For once, I agree with you sinkspur. With the above statement, it seems like the paleos have taken up not just an anti-Israel position, but an anti-Red states position. Are they brain-dead?

[awelliott]

Too bad I don't subscribe to this one. It would really be a pleasure to cancel my subscription.....

[malakhi]

So they ignore the fact that they are endorsing the most liberal member of the US Senate, and justify it with arguments from the left.

"PALEOCONSERVATIVE" = "NEOLIBERAL".

[goldstategop]

The paleos have nothing in common with conservatism. Do I agree with all of G.W's policies? Of course not. But next to a fire-breathing radical like Kerry, Bush is downright conservative. What the paleos would like is to see Bush go down just so they can feel superior after spending years on the margins. Fortunately, American voters aren't inclined to grant them their wish. Heck, even crusty paleo Pat Buchanan has come on board the Bush Express. What's stopping the American Conservative from following suit?

[sinkspur]

Scratch these paleo-cons and you'll find anti-semitism.

Find one column, book, or story written by any of these guys, and Jews somehow or other will figure prominently and negatively in it.

[gaspar]

Leadership is not a popularity contest. I can remember Europe in the 60s and 70s, and the Middle East in the 80s and 90s: Americans were hated then, too. And there were always American cowards with Canadian flags stitched on their backpacks. We were just so damned successful (and worked too hard). The fact that much of Europe hates us I take as a badge of honor because most of the good root stock left that miserable continent long age.

[badgerbengal]

Your right but it makes me so mad when they complain when we try to protect ourselves and they gripe about religious people and Isreal.

[goldfinch]

So....are these fools so confused they think the choice is between Bush and someone more conservative than Bush? Do they not care about the damage our nation would face with Kerry at the helm.

Conservatives who vote against Bush are cutting off their nose to spite their face.

How childish can you get.

[CWOJackson]

"McConnell managed Buchanan's Reform Party foray."

I for one am glad McConnell wrote this POS. The more that McConnell and his ilk reveal themselves the quicker everyone realizes these people ARE NOT conservative.

[Se7eN]

"If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A Bush defeat will ignite a huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of Republicandom: a quest to find out how and where the Bush presidency went wrong. And it is then that more traditional conservatives will have an audience to argue for a conservatism informed by the lessons of history, based in prudence and a sense of continuity with the American past—and to make that case without a powerful White House pulling in the opposite direction."

Has this inept moron been asleep at the wheel since 9/11? So he wants the liberal to win so the GOP gets some interior reform... excuse me while I roll my eyes and curse the malformed sperm that somehow managed to outswim the healthy ones during the conception of the author in question.

[conservativepoet]

Scott McConnell(alleged author) must be the ghost writer for Kofi Annan. He's in trouble, you know, since Clinton wants his job.

[malakhi]

Scratch these paleo-cons and you'll find anti-semitism.

Which has also become the hallmark of the loony left. Ironic how that works.

[sittnick]

I was an early subscriber to the American Conservative, and wrote them a letter when I did not renew after their coverage of a split on immigration within the "venerable" Sierra Club. Anyone who calls this anti-human zero-population growth cabal of tree-huggers "venerable," the same term used on NPR, has no right to the word conservative. Raimondo, McConnell and Samuel Francis are not God-fearing men; Raimondo doesn't fear anything but girls. While I appreciate much about Taki, he is a little too proud of his petty vices and a little too descriptive in recounting them, to take seriously when he talks about courtesy and good taste.

Good conservatives can have different opinions on how best to deal with terrorist attacks, and on policy related to it. Unfortunately, The American Conservative cannot really be called a conservative publication.

One last point: I strongly considered voting for Peroutka, as I am in a non-swing state (Illinois), but as it is clear that the Democrats will stop at nothing to undermine the legitimacy of a Bush election, I will do my small part to make the margin of victory nationwide as large as possible, and I will encourage my friends to do the same.

On this board, too often the old canard of "wasting your vote" is thrown to attack those who are voting Libertarian or Constitution. I am voting for Bush, not because of those attacks, but despite them. It is Mr. Kerry and his gang who have convinced me to mark my ballot "W."

To win the votes of Constitution Party-friendly voters, just repeat the following: "Supreme Court Justice Hillary Rodham" "United Nations Secretary General William Jefferson Clinton" Don't tell them they are voting for Kerry; don't tell them they are wasting their vote. Just repeat the mantra.

[Moral Hazard]

"He endorsed Gore last time."

I would have guessed that Buchanan endorsed himself in 2000.

[Eastbound]

Surprising to me that so many 'pundits' still see this election as a political thing. I doubt that they will wake up even when the blood in the streets is splashing over their lawns.

[badgerbengal]

The political spectrum is a circle and everyone lands somewhere on it. if you go to the far right or left you end up in the same place. Take Hitler and Stalin for example. Opposites with the same outcomes for their nations.

[WOSG]

REPOST of a lousy article.