Ever since a bunch of big government liberals switched over to the Republican Party in the 1960s because they hated the Democrat's personal freedom and hippie movements, they have been a thorn in the side of the conservative mainstream... growing more and more belligerent and unconservative, and the poster-child of this, is the past Republican red-headed stepchild himself: Pat Buchanan.
What many people don't understand is the so-called neocons are NOT a wing of the conservatives- they are the movement and always have been. The pissy conservatives who hate the neocons -like Buchanan- were always there, and there's always been a healthy debate within the Right... there are many types. But since 9/11, the Liberals and Big Media have jumped on this imaginary conservative crisis in attempts to build it up, exagerate it, and portray the Right as being deeply divided and Bush as someone who has lost his party. The facts speak otherwise.
We know that Bush has shored up support within his base very well... better than Kerry has with his base in fact. Considering there are more registered Democrats in the US, it's revealing that Bush is consistently polling even or slightly ahead... which means, who's supporting him? But I thought all those true conservatives hated him? Wrong... just a few here and there don't support him, just like what happens in every election. So even though we are barraged by anti-Bushers with streams of supposed conservatives and Republicans who disagree with the Bushwacker's policies, the fact that the race it very tight -just like it was in 2000, even though these people say he's lost SOO much support- says otherwise. Besides, it's common knowledge that the DNC has openly and actively engaged in this 'divide and conquer' strategy to gain political ground.
Personally, I am happy with those Buchanan type isolationist-Rights bitching about the way the conservative movement is today, and fanticizing about their "New Nationalism" dreams. Let them branch off and be exposed for what they are. Their interpretation of conservative/Republican history is ignorant, as are their prescriptions for the future. Their 'live and let live' foreign policy is a joke and not a foreign policy at all... it's a lack of one. In a perfect world that may look appealing, but reality is quite different. They can stick their head in a hole, but there's a world out there and it's impact on us is undeniable, huge, and often deadly.
Look at the man who speaks for this group. Buchanan himself effectively left the Repubs in 1999, a year before the Evil Bush and 2 years before 9/11 and our new-found "assertiveness". Even before that he was on the outs... talk of his extreme weirdness and speculation of him bolting go back to 1991. And his ideas represent all too much how these types of people think. This is the guy who allied himself with fringe groups on the left and right, socialists, white-supremacists, anti-Semites, and whose statements have been strongly anti-gay, sexist, Hitler-praising, and some good Holocaust Revisionism for good measure. This is the guy who thinks we could have stayed out of WWII. And he's as hypocritical as the next politician, demonizing corporations as he earns huge bucks from his multi-million dollar stock portfolio.
Pat, and all the other neo-nationalists: We've been waving bye to ya for years now... don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. (note: this is not to mean some people don't have genuine and reasonable differences within the Right... but this little class of quasi-racist, hyper-nationalistic kooks don't fit that bill)
What many people don't understand is the so-called neocons are NOT a wing of the conservatives- they are the movement and always have been. The pissy conservatives who hate the neocons -like Buchanan- were always there, and there's always been a healthy debate within the Right... there are many types. But since 9/11, the Liberals and Big Media have jumped on this imaginary conservative crisis in attempts to build it up, exagerate it, and portray the Right as being deeply divided and Bush as someone who has lost his party. The facts speak otherwise.
We know that Bush has shored up support within his base very well... better than Kerry has with his base in fact. Considering there are more registered Democrats in the US, it's revealing that Bush is consistently polling even or slightly ahead... which means, who's supporting him? But I thought all those true conservatives hated him? Wrong... just a few here and there don't support him, just like what happens in every election. So even though we are barraged by anti-Bushers with streams of supposed conservatives and Republicans who disagree with the Bushwacker's policies, the fact that the race it very tight -just like it was in 2000, even though these people say he's lost SOO much support- says otherwise. Besides, it's common knowledge that the DNC has openly and actively engaged in this 'divide and conquer' strategy to gain political ground.
Personally, I am happy with those Buchanan type isolationist-Rights bitching about the way the conservative movement is today, and fanticizing about their "New Nationalism" dreams. Let them branch off and be exposed for what they are. Their interpretation of conservative/Republican history is ignorant, as are their prescriptions for the future. Their 'live and let live' foreign policy is a joke and not a foreign policy at all... it's a lack of one. In a perfect world that may look appealing, but reality is quite different. They can stick their head in a hole, but there's a world out there and it's impact on us is undeniable, huge, and often deadly.
Look at the man who speaks for this group. Buchanan himself effectively left the Repubs in 1999, a year before the Evil Bush and 2 years before 9/11 and our new-found "assertiveness". Even before that he was on the outs... talk of his extreme weirdness and speculation of him bolting go back to 1991. And his ideas represent all too much how these types of people think. This is the guy who allied himself with fringe groups on the left and right, socialists, white-supremacists, anti-Semites, and whose statements have been strongly anti-gay, sexist, Hitler-praising, and some good Holocaust Revisionism for good measure. This is the guy who thinks we could have stayed out of WWII. And he's as hypocritical as the next politician, demonizing corporations as he earns huge bucks from his multi-million dollar stock portfolio.
Pat, and all the other neo-nationalists: We've been waving bye to ya for years now... don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. (note: this is not to mean some people don't have genuine and reasonable differences within the Right... but this little class of quasi-racist, hyper-nationalistic kooks don't fit that bill)
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