Posted on 11/12/2014 2:23:26 PM PST by Eva
So Rush Limbaugh is a little upset with your favorite correspondent today, because of some remarks I made on the Bill Maher program on Friday. Rush, usually an astute observer, is off-target here: He has simply misunderstood what I said. .....
...My advice to Rush is to take a minute, have a cigar, and read my new book on the transformative and revolutionary powers of capitalism, which I suspect he will find useful, as he so often has in the past, back when National Review used to be conservative.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Kevin Williamson has said repeatedly that he is a Pauler, more libertarian than conservative, but I was not aware that the whole magazine had jumped on the Rand Paul band wagon. I will be removing National Review from my bookmarks.
Is there a lesser penalty?
back when National RINOview was conservative...
lol
Kevin Williamson is the voice of the GOPe at National Review, a formerly conservative publication.
Read the first paragraph of the article (not included in your excerpt). Rush accused NR of no longer being conservative; Williamson explains why Rush is wrong, and then makes a joke about it.
Pauler is all ya need to know about this guy......
There’s nothing even remotely Paulian in anything I’ve read from Williamson. I’m calling bull***t on the whole thread.
Why do you think that they reposted that article recently? Some of the comments include the mention that Mark Steyn was let go, as well as someone else.
Goldberg is still there, although not writing as much.
There was no other first paragraph. I did see a blurb when I read the article this morning, but none this afternoon.
It doesn’t matter, Williamson has said repeatedly that he is more in tune with Rand Paul than any “other” conservative. LOL! Paul is no one’s idea of a conservative.
Oh I don't know about that, Ron Paul might consider him conservative.
/s
Kevin Williamson is referencing the complaint Rush and others have been making about NR for a long time now, but giving it a knowing wink (or smirk if you don't like him that much). I doubt he wrote the line intending it to be taken wholly seriously.
Williamson has been on the front lines of the political/cultural wars for a while now. He's done commendable work but it's made him a little punch-drunk lately.
I know your article was written last year, but judging by all the controversies he's gotten into lately, he may need to take a little time to regroup.
You're right, it wasn't the first paragraph. But this is a paragraph from the article you omitted, and what Williamson is echoing in his last line:
"I don’t mind that Rush misunderstood my point, which is the sort of thing that happens all the time, but I could do with a good deal fewer butt-hurt lamentations from him and his radio brethren about how National Review “used to be a conservative magazine.” Given that Rush has filled up many minutes of his precious airtime reading my work to his audience, it is strange that he would think of National Review, or me, as something other than conservative."
White trash?
Do Freepers still believe in free market capitalism?
I am starting to wonder if that is on the list of priorities. It’s #! on my list.
So...? Williamson states all the time that he disagrees with conservatives. He is not a conservative. If you read the article, he even reflects the Rand Paul thinking that conservatism is not a winning ideology, so why go there because conservatives are mostly bumpkins who can’t get their thoughts across.
Williamson justifies the flip flopping and the lack of deep seated core political philosophy as the only way to win. That sounds an awful lot like Gruber and needing to lie to the stupid voters to get Obamacare passed.
The big difference between conservatives and Libertarians is that the ends do not justify the means for conservatives. Rand Paul needs to learn that. I don’t care if Williamson learns it or not.
Free market capitalism, hmm, when was the last time that there was anything like that in the US?
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