Posted on 05/03/2003 8:44:59 AM PDT by quidnunc
It is really annoying. Some right wingers used to complain that Jews are too liberal (basically true), but when there are right-wing Jews they're excoriated too.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's almost like what Emporer Hadrian said about the Jews, "it doesn't matter what they do I still hate them."
Yes, the Paleocons are the Buchanan types who sound more like raving Leftists, KKK members, and Muslim extremists at this point. Like most all of the former-Freepers like Arator who after being banned from FR, went off to form Bush-bashing sites like Liberty Forum and Liberty Post. Sick, twisted conspiracy types who love to talk about "golems" and like to label our goverment as "ZOG".
You are correct. Before Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh, all the true conservatives in the country could have gathered for cocktails on the poop deck of William F. Buckley's yacht, Cyrano.
In fact, they often did! Now, condemned as "Paleo-Conservatives," it is quite understandable that their silken knickers occasionally get in a bit of a twist. I mean after all, "Who the Hell are all these new people in the club!"
Oh yeah, IMHO, they are also quite uncomfortable with actually winning elections.
Take a jaunt over to LibertyPost.com and LibertyForum.com where the self-identified Paleo's hang out and tell me I'm wrong.
No, it's a label the liberals and paleo-cons use to describe Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and other conservatives who have supported the War on Terror but who didn't fight in Vietnam.
I disagree insofar as Raimando, along with Pat Buchanan and others, write for "The American Conservative", which labels itself a paleo-conservative publication, and all other conservatives as neocons who have "hijacked" the conservative movement. Well, that may indeed be a compliment.
Now...if you can find evidence that paleocons actually consider Duke to be a compatriot. Right now, you have nothing but sleaze
The guy who thinks we should have competing governments and supports the PLO and the former Soviet Union?
There are sickos in every bunch. And according to David Blum he's not the father of the ["Jews took our jobs"] Paleos.
Ron Paul doesn't belong in that group. Ron Paul would never be opposed to free trade for instance.
Pegging Reagan as a paleocon is highly dubious. Yeah, he left the Democratic party before the main exodus of neocons began, but he did so for the same reasons, indicative of the fact that California Democrats veered left earlier than their East coast counterparts. It's also hard to reconcile with Reagan's strong belief in free trade, or with the enthusiasm with which neocons flocked to his banner and the importance they played in his administration.
Oh, I guess you are referring to our formerly-communist Polish allies, who supplied special forces troops in Iraq?
Does this mean you supported the France/Russia/Germany view, as did other paleocons like Pat Buchanan? If so, do you support his attacks on neocons? Isn't that a "McCarthyite" attack?
Now...if you can find evidence that paleocons actually consider Duke to be a compatriot. Right now, you have nothing but sleaze
The paleocon worldview has a compatriot in Duke. There is not a need for them to openly consider him as such. Buchanan and "The American Conservative" (the self-proclaimed home of Paleoconservatism) rallies against anything that remotely helps the Jews. Their articles have included dismissive arguments against the Holocaust, and criticized the War on Terror as an Israeli proxy war. They have also aluded to the often debunked theory that Israel was behind 9/11. Since David Duke spouts the same nonsensical arguments and supports the Arabs over the Jews... you fill in the blank.
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