Bwaaaaaaaaah hahahahahahha- From neocons to crazy- cons

[malaise]

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/01/opinion/la-oe-klinghoffer-conservatism-20100801
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From neocons to crazy-cons
Once the conservative movement was about finding meaning in private life and public service. But it has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism.
August 01, 2010|By David Klinghoffer

Once, the iconic figures on the political right were urbane visionaries and builders of institutions — like William F. Buckley Jr., Irving Kristol and Father Richard John Neuhaus, all dead now. Today, far more representative is potty-mouthed Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, whose news and opinion website, Breitbart.com, is read by millions. In his most recent triumph, Breitbart got a U.S. Department of Agriculture official pushed out of her job after he released a deceptively edited video clip of her supposedly endorsing racism against white people.

Buckley's National Review, where I was the literary editor through the 1990s, remains as vital and interesting as ever. But more characteristic of conservative leadership are figures on TV, radio and the Internet who make their money by stirring fears and resentments. With its descent to baiting blacks, Mexicans and Muslims, its accommodation of conspiracy theories and an increasing nastiness and vulgarity, the conservative movement has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism. Once the talk was of "neocons" versus "paleocons." Now we observe the rule of the crazy-cons.

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It's your party Klinghoffer. You remained silent while the neocons and crazy-cons took over. Indeed you supported the neocons.

[babylonsister]

1. And think about this; 'some' of the conservatives are the

rational folks. :scared:

Edit to add an example; Frum has been fairly reasonable on occasion:

http://www.frumforum.com/jeffrey-lord%E2%80%99s-embarrassing-attack-on-sherrod

[malaise]

2. Here's another one

Just google crazy-cons and have fun


http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2010/08/01/crazy-cons-embarass-serious-conservatives/
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# A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a — if not the — leading prospect for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential nomination.
# Tom Tancredo calling President Obama “the greatest threat to the United States today” and arguing that he be impeached. Bad public policy is not a high crime nor a misdemeanor, and the casual assertion that pursuing liberal policies–however misguided–is an impeachable offense is just nuts.
# Similar nonsense from former Ford-Reagan treasury department officials Ernest Christian and Gary Robbins, who IBD column was, as Doug Marconis observed, “a wildly exaggerated attack on President Obama’s record in office.” Actually, it’s more foaming at the mouth.
# As Doug also observed, “The GOP controlled Congress from 1994 to 2006: Combine neocon warfare spending with entitlements, farm subsidies, education, water projects and you end up with a GOP welfare/warfare state driving the federal spending machine.” Indeed, “when the GOP took control of Congress in 1994, and the White House in 2000, the desire to use the levers of power to create “compassionate conservatism” won our over any semblance of fiscal conservatism. Instead of tax cuts and spending cuts, we got tax cuts along with a trillion dollar entitlement program, a massive expansion of the Federal Government’s role in education, and two wars. That’s not fiscal conservatism it is, as others have said, fiscal insanity.” Yet, today’s GOP still has not articulated a message of real fiscal conservatism.
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I'm lovin' it. :rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Sympathy can be found in the dictionary...

but I doubt a real teabagger could or would read, much less retain anything he or she might by some "miracle" decipher from their slightly used funkin' wagnalls.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R

[izquierdista]

5. Iconic figures

Not icons, just your run-of-the-mill privileged wealthy who never had to work, so they typed out screeds fawning over Ayn Rand and sent them off to the printer. They are the intellectual heirs of Louis XIV, a corpulent boob who had the best tutors money could buy so he wouldn't appear as dumb as he looked. They advance the view that the masses can never be educated and would waste any money they had, so they might as well accumulate all the wealth in society. It's amazing that they can regularly scrape up a plurality of votes from those unwashed masses and win elections.

There never has been any love between the wealthy and the people they can con into voting for their interests. They have always regarded them as foul-mouthed coarse people, fit only to do menial service jobs. But with avarice and greed, a large number in the lower classes are fooled into thinking that yes, one day they might win the lotto and be able to join the wealthy, so better keep those wealth preservation laws in place. Don't vote for progressive taxation, because one day, someday, it may come back to diminish your own ill-gotten stack.

[malaise]

6. And Klinghoffer facilitated the process

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36871_Klinghoffer_Is_Embarrassed_by_All_The_Craziness
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The Discovery Institute’s David Klinghoffer says it’s embarrassing to be a conservative, and he should know — as one of the most embarrassing public examples of conservative anti-science creationist bad craziness on the Internet.