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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,

Don’t worry princess. Conservatism will be happy to count you out.


61 posted on 02/26/2018 6:24:10 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: C19fan
The doofus...


62 posted on 02/26/2018 6:24:35 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

They are for America Last.


63 posted on 02/26/2018 6:24:39 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: C19fan

Why aren’t they investigating Obama for trying to influence the Israeli elections?


64 posted on 02/26/2018 6:45:37 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Life Matters. :))
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“I never counted Max Boot or Jennifer Rubin as conservatives.”

Two of Hugh Hewitt’s favorite fake conservative, never-Trumper guests. I remember when these people were hysterically calling Trump a fake conservative, and my reply was that if Trump isn’t conservative, I don’t care if I am one either, at least he’s a nationalist. Not globalist statists like those two.


65 posted on 02/26/2018 6:52:37 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Nifster

I often do not agree with your posts, but on this one, I think you captured the prevailing conservative sentiment perfectly


66 posted on 02/26/2018 7:02:03 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: C19fan

Fake news.


67 posted on 02/26/2018 7:03:49 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Hugin

The misspelling on Jebbifer was intentional, she is so smitten with Yeb!

Hewitt and Medved are two other fake conservatives that still inexplicably have an audience. They have been amnesty pimps for decades.

The common thread through all the NeverTrump fake conservatives is their commitment to open borders/amnesty.


68 posted on 02/26/2018 7:12:06 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan
, I support gun control

Do ya, now?

Quit calling yourself a "conservative", ya slimy communist son of a Hillary!

69 posted on 02/26/2018 7:14:13 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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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. 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.

Sure sounds like a lib to me.

70 posted on 02/26/2018 7:26:57 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: C19fan

My problem with Max Boot, Rubin, and others being labeled conservative is that people this is what conservativism should be. Screw the fake conservatives, the neocons.


71 posted on 02/26/2018 7:31:36 PM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: Mariner
What am I? I'm an all-out Zionist and 2A supporter (SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED,) who also believes we're creating a creepy slave state with all the illegals working here... I think we should have LEGAL immigration, and liberally so, from countries like Mexico, less so from countries where people don't want to work (like, say, Chicago, Gary, Baltimore,) and drastically revise our union-rotten educational system and free crap EBT card welfare giveaway. What am I? a Jew-con? A Honkey-con? It's all so confusing.
72 posted on 02/26/2018 7:45:11 PM PST by golux
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To: C19fan

Another Old Media Repub who has never voted for a Repub in their life.


73 posted on 02/26/2018 7:51:26 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: C19fan

He is a globalist, and our founders fought a war for independence against that sort of thing. I don’t see this man as a classical liberal because those were the guys dumping the tea in Boston Harbor, which I can’t see him doing. I could see him running to the Brits to rat out the founders for dumping the tea, however.


74 posted on 02/26/2018 8:09:07 PM PST by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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To: C19fan

Neo-con means globalist with a warmonger twist.


75 posted on 02/26/2018 8:10:32 PM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: golux

Conservatives are nationalists that believe in protecting the borders, and the language and culture of our founders.

They believe in the Rule of Law above the passions of the day. And Law and Order in the streets.

They believe in Private Property.

They believe in strident enforcement of the Bill of Rights.

They believe in small government and low taxes.

They believe we have plenty to fix at home before we go looking to fix things elsewhere.

They believe war is a last resort, but when it is necessary, total and complete destruction of the enemy is the objective.

They believe in taking care of those who cannot take care of themselves, but would leave the indolent, drunk and lazy to their own devices.

I don’t believe Zionism is related to Conservatism, or America...though they are not hostile belief systems.


76 posted on 02/26/2018 8:12:09 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: aquila48

Looks like he spends cold winter days with Matt Drudge.


77 posted on 02/26/2018 8:16:43 PM PST by Rastus
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To: C19fan

Your HTML suck there for you have zero credibility!


78 posted on 02/26/2018 8:17:15 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: goldstategop

And collective punishment.


79 posted on 02/26/2018 8:17:32 PM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: Reno89519

I don’t know Max Boot. I don’t recall ever agreeing with Rubin on even the most minor of issues.

You’ve been telling me you were conservative since you were seventeen
In all the time I’ve known you, I still don’t know what you mean


80 posted on 02/26/2018 8:19:21 PM PST by Rastus
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