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.
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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.
I’m confused, I thought neocons were the Jooooooooooooooooooz?!
Why doesn’t he just call Rudy the “d-word” and get it over with?
Nonintervention was never linked to conservatism or liberalism historically. Lame try.
Is this guy’s name really “Muleshine”?
Ping
Oh, I get it. “Mulshine”. Not much of an improvement.
I’ve seen JFK labelled as a “neocon”.
The term is pure psychobabble.
Moonshine?
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.
"...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
What’s a ‘neocon’?
Rep. Paul doesn’t call himself a conservative by the way. Read his House Bio. http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml
It's the trendy word for 'boogeyman.'
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.
Anybody who's not a moonbat.
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.
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.
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.
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