Interesting post ... the neo-cons infected the Republican party and have become the open-borders interventionist RINO’s that are so eager to get us into conflict with Russia at the behest of Saudi Arabia .. we’ve spilled enough blood for the Saudi aligned sphere of influence . Trump will put an end to it ,and I will add, Buchanan was right all of these years .
Do you know who Donald Kagan, presently of Hamden, Connecticut (born and brought up in Brooklyn, NY), is?
What are his accomplishments?
Are you glad he has stopped being a socialist and become an enthusiastic Reagan Republican? Why? Why not?
The foregoing questions will also be asked as to several other specific individuals by reference to this post substituting only the name of another individual.
Jeanne Kirkpatrick;
Norman Podhoretz;
Gertrude Himmelfarb;
Midge Decter;
Robert Bork;
Same questions as #75 except the following abandoned the Demonrat left without becoming actually Republican:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan;
Martin Diamond;
Alexander Bickel;
Jaroslav Pelikan. That is a short list. I can add more names in both categories.
Final question for extra credit or extra ignominy:
For the conservative movement, which Democrat's foreign policy views do you prefer be adopted: Henry Scoop Jackson or George McGovern and why?
Answers to such questions will garner a LOT more respect for you than will throwing insults. I am what many paleos would call a neo-con. I reject that label. I am a CONSERVATIVE. I have never been an outstanding New York City Jewish intellectual nor a close friend of any, just a blue collar working class Catholic kid by birth and upbringing who benefited from a Jesuit prep school education sooooooo long ago that the Jebbies were still Catholics. Along the way, I had the privilege of becoming acquainted with Bill Buckley, Bill Rusher, Robert Bork, John Bolton, Phyllis Schlafly, John Chamberlain, Frank and Elsie Meyer, John Ashbrook and a lot of other folks you have heard of. I also know Tom Fleming, Chris Check and others at Rockford Institute on the paleo side and their less paleo rivals across the driveway at the Howard Institute as well.
I enjoy Pat Buchanan's books and writing while often disagreeing with my fellow Jesuit prep school alumnus. He was NEVER a movement conservative. He came in through the St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper, and his long association with the decidedly non-conservative Richard Milhous Nixon, then worked for Reagan in the White House and then became an eccentric. His last great effort was a failed but noble attempt to pin the tail on GHWB, globalist extraordinaire.
As to our enemies, as a nation, we can stick our heads in the sand until they slaughter us, we can send caviar gobbling diployakkers to sell us down the river to our enemies but what a swell party it is, or we can be interventionists, kick their asses, shutter Foggy Bottom, and get each conflict the hell over with. That last one is called interventionism and also CONSERVATISM.