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To: BlackElk
Socially, they are far more comfortable with Franklin Roosevelt than with Ronald Reagan

Of all the clueless statements in your last couple of posts, this one stands out the most. The paleos, pretty much by definition, were FDR's arch enemy when it came to foreign policy. It was they who obstructed his highly ill-advised attempts to get us involved in WWII prior to Pearl Harbor.

133 posted on 05/03/2003 3:53:13 PM PDT by inquest
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To: inquest
I said socially, not ideologically. However, since you insist, I don't know how anyone can imagine Justine Raimondo (McGovern in drag) having much to offer Ronald Reagan ideologically either. Nor would the following have much to offer to any genuinely conservative administration: Tom Fleming, Joseph Sobran, Samuel Francis. They are cranks. They are eccentrics. You cannot dress them up and take them out into polite society.

If you have a problem with American involvement in World War II at this late date, you are not ideologically related to Charles Lindbergh or John Flynn. Stop suggesting otherwise. Both Lindbergh and Flynn folded the isolationist tent immediately upon the Pearl Harbor attack and Lindbergh begged and obtained the opportunity to serve in the war. I also think Chesterton would find your position unsupportable and your political bearing alien to his own.

I don't think you want to pursue the position that I am clueless. I am very patient and willing to defend.

142 posted on 05/03/2003 5:06:19 PM PDT by BlackElk (Viva Cristo Rey! Neville Chamberlain lies a moulderin' in his grave and a good thing too!)
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