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If this is what conservatism has become, count me out
Washington Post ^ | February 25, 2018 | Max Boot

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: betamale; lowt; maxboot; neocons; soyboy
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To: C19fan

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.


41 posted on 02/26/2018 5:48:09 PM PST by robel
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To: C19fan

“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?


42 posted on 02/26/2018 5:49:18 PM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one party control of communications.)
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To: C19fan
I had these big-government globalists pegged as frauds years ago.

Like his fellow globalist pr!cks, Max Boot never met a foreign war he didn't want someone else's kids to fight.

43 posted on 02/26/2018 5:49:30 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: yetidog

“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.


44 posted on 02/26/2018 5:49:39 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Mariner

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.


45 posted on 02/26/2018 5:50:14 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: C19fan

Don’t let the door hit your sorry azz on the way out!


46 posted on 02/26/2018 5:51:08 PM PST by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is 60 times worse than DACA)
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To: robel
This is just further confirmation that Hillary Clinton was the "neo-con" candidate in the 2016 election.

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.

47 posted on 02/26/2018 5:53:56 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: C19fan

I compared President Trump’s indifference to the 2016 Russian election assault to a president ignoring 9/11.


You’re more of a fool than a conservative, anyway.

To the extent any conservative is a NeverTrumper, (ie, George Will, National Review, the Weekly Standard) he/she is a righty tiny-tent Utopian.


48 posted on 02/26/2018 5:55:09 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: C19fan
I support gun control and immigration.

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.

49 posted on 02/26/2018 5:59:15 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: C19fan

This reminds me of when atheists tell Christians what their religion demands of them.


50 posted on 02/26/2018 6:00:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: C19fan

Adios, Mofo.


51 posted on 02/26/2018 6:02:24 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

Judging from the comments at the source, Boot has no conservative readers.


52 posted on 02/26/2018 6:03:48 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: goldstategop

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.


53 posted on 02/26/2018 6:05:18 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: yetidog

Heh. To me, Max Boot is a cross between a German U-boat and the man who put Franz Kafka into print.


54 posted on 02/26/2018 6:09:34 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: C19fan

Boot is a slimy weasel who lists himself as a Russian American. Any conservative who claims hyphenated status should be shot


55 posted on 02/26/2018 6:14:04 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Fightin Whitey
Almost sounds like an FR Opus but Maxie is even more stupid and whiny than most of the Opussers....


56 posted on 02/26/2018 6:14:15 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: yetidog

“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.


57 posted on 02/26/2018 6:15:36 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C19fan

“If this is what conservatism has become, count me out”

Glad to.


58 posted on 02/26/2018 6:17:04 PM PST by aquila48
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To: C19fan
racism and sexism remain pervasive problems.... because, among other sins, I support gun control and immigration.

So what exactly makes this clod a "conservative"? Does he wear bow ties and drink hot toddies?

59 posted on 02/26/2018 6:22:13 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: C19fan

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.


60 posted on 02/26/2018 6:22:33 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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