Just because the Republican Party is considered the "BIG" conservative political party about America does not make it so. Michael Rivero is not a liberal, BTW; he is more conservative than even your favorite past time, Rush Limbaugh.
Actually, a couple of centuries ago, one commentator, describing the law itself, gave us the best word picture to describe the likes of Michael Rivero and Justin Raimundo: Each is "a ass, a idiot," or Shakespeare might have described each as "sound and fury signifying nothing." Constitution worship, as such, or republic worship, as such, is not conservatism. It is not even a love of freedom. The idea of a "republic" was also the goal of the notorious French Revolution. Burke had no trouble distinguishing between our revolution which he supported even as a member of Parliament and the French Revolution. The Soviet Union also had a constitution and it guaranteed free speech and freedom of religion and what not. Wise subjects of the Soviets knew better than to take those guaarantees seriously. As long as Roe vs. Wade is the "law of the land" courtesy of the US Supremes (our ongoing extralegal constitutional convention in no apparent need of ratification), we have no republic and we have no constitution.
All that having been said, may God bless Dubya with every success in his ongoing and impressive effort to search out and destroy the SOB's who were responsible for the 9/11 attack on our nation and its citizens. May the neo-isolationist poseurs or neo-ostriches such as Rivero and Raimundo obtain the obscurity they so richly deserve. May they soon be gone and be forgotten with the rest of their ilk.
And finally, puhleeze give a rest to the bilge that those who support the current military effort are somehow dupes of a vast conspiracy or inferior intellects because they do not agree with little Justin and Rivero.
"Michael Rivero is not a liberal, BTW; he is more conservative than even your favorite past time, Rush Limbaugh"You're right. Rivero's writing makes him sound like psychologically-challenged Libertarian, far-right-wingut.
My apologies in advance to those many moderate libertarians who post to this forum: your opinions and insights are invaluable.
I'm working my way through all the replies...I've read about a half dozen really nasty ones...they HAVE NOT BEEN DELETED.
NO reply I have read so far as been deleted. Of course, I'm only up to #150, but so far, the lack of deleted threads of the strongest possible proof of FR's - and Jim Robinson's - openness to civil debate.