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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Max writes like a leftist, his friends are probably all leftist, and now he’s officially transitioning from conservative to liberal. He’s like the guy everyone always knew was gay, but thought he was fooling everyone. He should ask Jeff Flake to go out for a drink.
“David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine accused me of going “full leftist” for acknowledging that racism and sexism remain pervasive problems.”
Idiot thinks “acknowledge” is a synonym for “push a despicable lie.”
Why, oh why, do I never come face to face with despicable filth like Boot?
Like his fellow globalist pr!cks, Max Boot never met a foreign war he didn't want someone else's kids to fight.
“The only thing cool about Max Boot is his name.”
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It would be more appropriate and accurate if his name was Max Dung.
They’re just like the trannies..they define a term to mean what they want it to mean and then use it to justify their outrage against those of us who still believe it means what it has always meant. Just like there are only two “genders” the term “conservative” has a specific meaning. and believing what he says he believes makes him something else, but certainly not a conservative, no matter how he tries to re-define it.
Don’t let the door hit your sorry azz on the way out!
The great news was that a lot of Democrats recognized that, too. I'm sure a lot of them stayed home because they realized that Hillary Clinton would be identical to George W. Bush on about 95% of the issues -- including the wholesale sellout of the U.S. to foreign and corporate interests.
I compared President Trump’s indifference to the 2016 Russian election assault to a president ignoring 9/11.
To the extent any conservative is a NeverTrumper, (ie, George Will, National Review, the Weekly Standard) he/she is a righty tiny-tent Utopian.
Then you're not conservative.
I spent years writing for conservative [sic] publications such as the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Commentary magazine and working as a foreign policy adviser for three Republican presidential campaigns.
None of that makes you a conservative.
This reminds me of when atheists tell Christians what their religion demands of them.
Adios, Mofo.
Judging from the comments at the source, Boot has no conservative readers.
I thought I was a neocon, too, during the Iraqi war. It’s a slippery, protean term, to be sure, but Bush’s New Wilsonian dreams of exporting democracy at gunpoint turned out to be a failure. I think it has to do with thinking, at some primal leverl, perople are all the same and want the same things out of life. Islam proved that dog won’t hunt.
In today’s terms, neoconservatism is the intersection of imperialism and compassionate conservatism. Yes, it’s that ugly.
Heh. To me, Max Boot is a cross between a German U-boat and the man who put Franz Kafka into print.
Boot is a slimy weasel who lists himself as a Russian American. Any conservative who claims hyphenated status should be shot
“The only thing cool about Max Boot is his name.”
Boot is a boat in German. A dinghy in his case which in my youth meant a cock.
“If this is what conservatism has become, count me out”
Glad to.
So what exactly makes this clod a "conservative"? Does he wear bow ties and drink hot toddies?
I’m thankful that most Republicans now oppose pointless wars in the Middle East, realizing that spending billions of dollars to replace one Islamic regime with another Islamic regime never turns out well.
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