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The Neocon Moment is Over
Star-Ledger ^ | May 23, 2007 | Paul Mulshine

Posted on 05/25/2007 10:13:26 AM PDT by Irontank

So-called "neo" conservatism has its roots in a Marxist view of the world. So it is not surprising that the neocons are trying to silence their most prominent conservative critic.

That would be Texas Rep. Ron Paul. He outraged the neocons during the Republican presidential debate last week by advocating that the GOP return to the traditional conservative stance of noninterventionism. Paul invoked the ghost of Robert Taft, the GOP Senate leader who fought entry into NATO. And he also pointed out that messing around in the Mideast creates risks here at home.

That prompted Rudy Giuliani to interrupt Paul and demand that he retract his remarks. Paul not only refused to bow to Il Duce, but after the debate, Paul told the TV audience that the self-appointed saint of 9/11 might consider reading the report of the 9/11 commission, which makes the same point in some detail.

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I put in a call to Andy Napolitano, the Fox News legal analyst and my brother's old buddy at Notre Dame Law School. In addition to appearing on TV, Andy co-hosts a talk show called "Brian and the Judge" on Fox radio.

"Our calls have been going 10 to one in favor of Ron Paul," said Napolitano, a former Superior Court judge in New Jersey who supports Paul's libertarian views.

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Clearly, the doctor had hit a nerve. The neocons are fond of arguing that we can't simply retreat into "fortress America," as they call it. But the impulse to do so is deeply ingrained in the American psyche. If you doubt that, look at the polls on immigration. The neocon in chief is an open-borders guy, but that view has no support in the base of the GOP.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: conservative; constitution; ilduce; libertarians; marxism; marxists; mulshine; neocons; neoconservatism; patriot; patriotpaul; paulistas; paulmulshine; ronpaul; ronpaulcult
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1 posted on 05/25/2007 10:13:28 AM PDT by Irontank
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To: Irontank
The Neocon Moment is Over

Said the man who can look out his office window at the Star-Ledge in Newark and see 20 ft high fences with razor wire at the top around all the parking lots, abandoned buildings, street crime, etc.

Someone tell him the Dem decades are over - I can't bear to deal with him anymore.

2 posted on 05/25/2007 10:16:04 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Irontank

I’m confused, I thought neocons were the Jooooooooooooooooooz?!


3 posted on 05/25/2007 10:16:15 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: Irontank

Why doesn’t he just call Rudy the “d-word” and get it over with?


4 posted on 05/25/2007 10:17:25 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Irontank
Tripoli

Nonintervention was never linked to conservatism or liberalism historically. Lame try.

5 posted on 05/25/2007 10:17:58 AM PDT by MrEdd (L. Ron Gore creator of "Fry-n-tology" the global warming religion.)
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To: Irontank

Is this guy’s name really “Muleshine”?


6 posted on 05/25/2007 10:18:10 AM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Irontank; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Rodney King; OrthodoxPresbyterian; Remember_Salamis; ...

Ping


7 posted on 05/25/2007 10:18:33 AM PDT by Irontank (Ron Paul for President)
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To: RexBeach

Oh, I get it. “Mulshine”. Not much of an improvement.


8 posted on 05/25/2007 10:18:41 AM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Irontank

I’ve seen JFK labelled as a “neocon”.

The term is pure psychobabble.


9 posted on 05/25/2007 10:19:27 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: RexBeach

Moonshine?


10 posted on 05/25/2007 10:20:20 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: Irontank
Paul invoked the ghost of Robert Taft, the GOP Senate leader who fought entry into NATO. And he also pointed out that messing around in the Mideast creates risks here at home.

Yep, shoulda waited until the entire world was speaking German or Japanese before getting involved.

Yep, shoulda waited until the entire world was ruled from Moscow or Beijing before getting involved.

Yep, should definitely wait until the world courts are under Sharia law before getting involved.

11 posted on 05/25/2007 10:20:53 AM PDT by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Irontank
Paul Mulshine:
"...Paul not only refused to bow to Il Duce, but after the debate, Paul told the TV audience that the self-appointed saint of 9/11 ...."


I think Paul Mulshine is a FReeper

12 posted on 05/25/2007 10:22:14 AM PDT by Condor51 (Rudy makes John Kerry look like a Right Wing 'Gun Nut' Extremist)
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To: Irontank

What’s a ‘neocon’?


13 posted on 05/25/2007 10:22:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Irontank

Rep. Paul doesn’t call himself a conservative by the way. Read his House Bio. http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml


14 posted on 05/25/2007 10:22:37 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: BenLurkin
What’s a ‘neocon’?

It's the trendy word for 'boogeyman.'

15 posted on 05/25/2007 10:24:38 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: Irontank

I think this writer is on crack. Marxism is an economic theory and the neocon movement is a belief that we should act preemptively in the world.


16 posted on 05/25/2007 10:25:20 AM PDT by byteback
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To: BenLurkin
What’s a ‘neocon’?

Anybody who's not a moonbat.

17 posted on 05/25/2007 10:26:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder." --Frederic Bastiat)
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To: Egon

He wants to leave the fight to our children and grandchildren. You know, when the islamderthals are for more powerful and have had a couple decades to seize technological advantages from nations they overrun.

Who knows, some of our descendants might even die in the last stand for freedom.


18 posted on 05/25/2007 10:27:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: BenLurkin
What’s a ‘neocon’?

I think the current usage is a term used by liberals to slander anyone who agrees with Bush. But neocon had a far different meaning before liberals hi-jacked it.

19 posted on 05/25/2007 10:28:09 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: BenLurkin
What’s a ‘neocon’?

Anyone who is willing to support Israel. The Neocons are basically the Jooooooos and the friends of the Jooooooos.

In practice, the people who use the word Neocon, do so in a negative way and their basic point is that our support of Israel is the root cause for the problems in the Middle East.

20 posted on 05/25/2007 10:29:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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