Too Far East Is West

Enter Stage Right ^ | May 25, 2003 | Carol Devine-Molin

[GOPBlonde]

Political junkies are tremendously fascinated by the ongoing trench warfare between the paleoconservative and neoconservative camps. That said, this is as good a time as any for this writer to jump back into the fray.

There is an old Irish adage: "Too Far East Is West". It simply means that if you continue to move East on the globe, you'll inevitably wind up in the West. Ironic, isn't it? Of course, it can be a terrific metaphor for so many situations. For instance, in his diligent pursuit of personal beauty, singer Michael Jackson has accomplished something quite the contrary; creating a grotesque visage for himself. Sorry, I digress. In any event, politics are not all that different. In the case of radical right-wing ideologues, they begin to morph and resemble their radical left-wing counterparts after awhile. Most mainstream conservatives are well aware that the fringe right and the fringe left are kindred spirits in some respects, and have demonstrated a willingness to work in tandem on occasion. In recent times, their shared antiwar sentiments have given rise to short-term collaborative endeavors.

But I'm particularly appalled by paleoconservatives who have cooperated with libertarian and hard-left types in efforts to vilify both Christians and Jews as "warmongers". Moreover, just look at the "antiwar" radicals that paleoconservative leader Pat Buchanan has been linked with during the course of his political career,

[GOPBlonde]

The paleoconservatives are a bunch of malcontents that do everthing possible to strike out against the GOP.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do.

[steve50]

The paleos must be getting more followers , the hit pieces are flowing again. So much for re-uniting the party.

[D. Brian Carter]

Paleo? Neo? These silly fad-ish labels are driving me crazy. As in a previous thread, this is about all I see any more when I read these articles:

Blah neo-conservatives blah blahbl ah bla hblah blahbl ah blahbl ahbl ah neo-conservatives bla hblah blah blah neo-conservatives blahbl ablahbl a neo-conservatives h blah blahbl a neo-conservatives hblahbla bla hblahblahbl neo-conservatives bl neo-conservatives ahblahbl ah bla hblahbl a hbl ahblah neo-conservatives.

I guess I can revise that to:

Blah paleo-conservatives blah blahbl ah bla hblah blahbl ah blahbl ahbl ah paleo-conservatives bla hblah blah blah paleo-conservatives blahbl ablahbl a paleo-conservatives h blah blahbl a paleo-conservatives hblahbla bla hblahblahbl paleo-conservatives bl paleo-conservatives ahblahbl ah bla hblahbl a hbl ahblah paleo-conservatives.

When does the attack of the meso-conservatives begin? Or the ceno-conservatives? What a bunch of silliness.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Americans are engaged in warfare for one simple reason – we are taking the necessary actions to ensure our safety and security.

One good example would be Bosnia. Kosovo, an even better one.

But I like it how she phrases it. It was 'Americans' were the one who begged BJ Clinton to bomb Yugoslavia.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

It's more accurate to think of the right-left political spectrum as a sphere, with the pinnacle, or the zenith of the sphere, representing the political center, and with movement to either the right or left.

And, at the pinnacle, a gorgeous DemoGOP amalgamation of amoral, power-hungry, corrupt, unprincipled professional politicians and their dummies, in an ethernal, interchangeable and unseparable embrace (posing as a struggle), making sure that they always call their partners 'adversaries'. Otherwise, G.d forbid, the 'average voter', also known as 'the consumer' or (yummy) 'the tax payer', may realize one day that choosing between the 2 evils is not that much of a choice and may kick off that deflated 'shpere' out of their home yard and into the dustbin of history.