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| American Conservative (Pat Buchanan's rag) calls Guliani a "Fascist" |
| 2007-12-22 |
| David Frum, National Review The American Conservative magazine has a cover illustration on Rudy Giuliani that depicts him in fascist pose and costume: black shirt, bandolier, jutting Mussolini jaw. In the past, garb like that shown on the mayor would have made the hearts of the editors of the American Conservative go pit-a-pit. . . . And yet oddly enough, this time the fascist posture is not offered by the American Conservative as an endorsement. Instead, author Michael Desch - a professor at Texas A&M best known till now for his work publicizing and defending the "Israel lobby" writings of Profs. Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, wants the world to know ... well, let's let the man speak for himself. (several block quotes later) . . . Giuliani is "the clear favorite of the party's top Jewish activists."The author also criticizes Guliani for favoring democracy in the Middle East. Yes, well obviously we cannot have that. Have we really reached the point where a magazine that masquerades under the label of "conservative" thinks that the very worst possible allegation to throw against a president is that he has advisers who admire Israel and support democracy, that he knows his own mind, and that he is ready to defend the country against his enemies? If this is the American Conservative's idea of criticism, God save the Republican party from ever deserving its praise. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Pot kettle black Buchanan calling someone "fascist" ... that's rich. Speaking of fascists, I saw a Ron Paul demonstration today in a nearby town. Looking at the signs they were carrying, it seems that Paul has picked up all the old Lyndon LaRouche supporters. I wished I had a big Lincoln with blacked out windows and I was wearing a black suit and sunglasses with a big Nikon and huge lens ... so I could have stopped the car and taken some pictures of them and set some of the little paranoid scum into a tizzy. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-12-22 19:26 |
| #6 Cool it worked! I can now post from my blackberry via a proxy at my house! I'm sitting outside Nordstroms guarding the bags I have been portering, and the herd here is huge. All I want for Christmas now is to get out of this mall wihtout losing it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-12-22 12:31 |
| #5 well... cryptofascist means he only wears the swastika on his underoos, instead of on his sleeve. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-12-22 12:26 |
| #4 OldSpook, I disagree. There is nothing crypto about Buchanan. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-12-22 12:14 |
| #3 can't remember who, but someone said PB's '92 Campaign Speech "sounded better in the original German" - heh. He's a populist isolationist jerk that never got above a small core group of support, yet MSNBC and others continue to parade him as a Republican and Conservative representative figure. I'd hope he'd retire and STFU or die |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-12-22 10:46 |
| #2 Buchanan is a shittly little cryptofascist and populist and isolationist who calls himself a so-called "paleo-con". He is an ass. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-12-22 10:35 |
| #1 Funny that only this week I've seen pictures of both Ron Paul and Buchanon with White Supremecists. Seems the Conservative movement is gonna have to clean house adn get these bad apples as far away as possible. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-12-22 09:39 |