Posted on 02/26/2018 5:22:52 PM PST by C19fan
I’m used to being vilified by the far left as a bloodthirsty neocon warmonger for the Original Sin of having supported the invasion of Iraq along with 72 percent of the American public. It has been a little more surprising to be simultaneously vilified by the far right as a dangerous left-winger. David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine accused me of going “full leftist” for acknowledging that racism and sexism remain pervasive problems. Breitbart called me, with ironic quotation marks, the “Washington Post’s ostensibly new ‘conservative’ columnist,” because, among other sins, I support gun control and immigration. American Greatness wrote that I am a “soulless, craven opportunist” whose “brain is broken,” because I compared President Trump’s indifference to the 2016 Russian election assault to a president ignoring 9/11. For the same offense, Jack Posobiec — an Internet troll notorious for pushing the theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring out of a Washington pizza parlor — said I was “sick” and a “Russian propagandist.” In the Orwellian language of the far right, someone who wants to combat Russian aggression is a “Russian propagandist,” whereas someone who echoes Russian propaganda is putting “America first.”
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Sorry, Max, we have counted you as a leftwing, statist totalitarian for years now.
If his accusers are accurate, he was never counted in. Max Boob.
Well, yes, racism and sexism do still exist - but this guy pushes false narratives regarding the same using leftist talking points. He doesn’t support the 2nd amendment, supports illegal immigration (which he uses the leftist tactic of just calling it ‘immigration’ which is less than forthright), uses outrageous hyperbole with 9/11 while it was President Obama who essentially ignored it and did nothing while it was going on - Candidate Trump was not even in office, etc.
Conservatism has ‘become’ nothing, Mr. Boot - your comments across the board have never been anything but leftist demagoguery.
This guy is in the game, the life, of throwing and taking punches in print.
Now he wants to cry because the game and players have changed? Sheesh...
Another hysterical whiner.
Newsflash, the Russia involvement is bullshit. They did a lot more in putting anti fracking money into Dem hands to stop our development. Not a word of that. This Mueller indictment is crap and they way you caterwaul about it like it was Pearl Harbor only let’s the world know you are full of shit.
We know you hate Trump, and all the rest is bullshit.
The right isn’t Orwell, but Benghazi is Orwell, a video is Orwell, the IRS is Orwell, Bob Creamer is Orwell, the FBI doing DNC goon work is Orwell. Get your definitions straight if you gonna play for the wrong side.
The only thing cool about Max Boot is his name.
He thinks the country is tainted due to racism and sexism. Wants gun control and open borders. What about this shares any commonality with conservatism. Nothing. He’s a leftist with a different title to get a salary bump.
Jennifer and Max—we need to put a Boot up your asses!
99% of racism is from minorities or Whites who hate themselves. It might even be more than 99%.
Sexism is a similar story.
Did anyone ever count Max, IN?
Boot, Rubin, George Will and Bill Kristol can all go to hell.
At least he admits he’s not a conservative.
Mr. Boot, comparing any 2016 Russian election “assault” to 9/11 is asinine.
Those of us who are real Republicans have achieved what has been needed for 20 years - we gave Max and the other warmongering but draftdodging neocons “the Boot”. Let the Democrats have him; have no doubt they have no use for either him or his interventionist ideas, either. He can join the Kasich movement - their next meeting is in a phone booth.
Neocons are simply NOT conservative. Never have been.
That’s reserved for us Paleocons.
Neocons are just low life forms of another type.
They are neocons. BIG difference. Ron Paul is not popular here, but a re-read of his neo-conned speech is indispensible to understanding these revolutionary Trotskyites. At one time I read The Weekly Standard - their flagship. Stopped that when they started advocating for “national greatness conservatism”, which to me sounds a lot like...”national socialism”.
NeoCons are not American firsters. They are someone else firsters.
Being called names is a good reason to become a leftist. They want everybody but themselves to shut up. Kind of like Muslims in a way.
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