Ex-Nat'l Review Publisher: McCain's "conservative" credentials are B.S.
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Finally, someone with serious conservative credentials speaks up and points out what I've been saying about the Religious Right/NeoCon/'Wouldn't Know What Conservatism Was if It Hit Them Upside the Head' goons who've taken over the Republican Party… That's right folks, a former Publisher of the National Review (invited to join the staff by William F. Buckley Jr. himself) stands up and says it: McCain/Bush et al. are NOT conservatives, and it's idiotic to vote Republican if you're actually a political conservative. Wick Allison is voting for Obama … because Obama is more conservative than McCain.
Conservatism to me is less a political philosophy than a stance, a recognition of the fallibility of man and of man’s institutions. Conservatives respect the past not for its antiquity but because it represents, as G.K. Chesterton said, the democracy of the dead; it gives the benefit of the doubt to customs and laws tried and tested in the crucible of time. Conservatives are skeptical of abstract theories and utopian schemes, doubtful that government is wiser than its citizens, and always ready to test any political program against actual results.
"Liberalism always seemed to me to be a system of “oughts.” We ought to do this or that because it’s the right thing to do, regardless of whether it works or not. It is a doctrine based on intentions, not results, on feeling good rather than doing good.
"But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask."
Wick Allison ~ former Publisher, National Review
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this just shows that modern republicanism is the party for unthinking individuals, and extremist nutjobs. too stupid to realize that the people you want to vote for are going to fuck you over? Republican.
or, you can go with W's: i used to be high on drugs, but now i am high on god.
seriously, google '"george w. bush" "dry drunk"'. it's really interesting
http://www.counterpunch.org/wormer1011.html is the article
it's really accurate, which is kinda terrifying.
20th September 2008 at 9:16 pm | permalink |@grizzlybaer: Oh yes, I've read the dry drunk theory … it does fit to a T, doesn't it?
21st September 2008 at 3:40 pm | permalink |I have a friend who is a republican, and even HE thinks that McCain is unfit to lead the country. unfortunately, he feels that Palin would make a good pres. if McCain bites it.
24th September 2008 at 11:22 am | permalink |@abitch: you have to post something about the so called financial crisis in the world, brought to life by the Bush administration and the right wing follower’s lust for more money, more money, more money… And the fact that these capitalist motherfuckers are turning to the little people for help when their whole ludicrous system goes banana…
25th September 2008 at 1:52 am | permalink |(Just a little sidetracking)
@bill: Yeah, I do, but I'm currently trying to catch up with enough work that I'm not completely screwed when I leave for the UK on Sunday. :-)
25th September 2008 at 12:51 pm | permalink |@grizzlybaer: What possible reason could he have for thinking Alaska Barbie could do any kind of a decent job in the White House? Christ, being President is a little more complex than fixing your hair and getting your teeth polished regularly …
25th September 2008 at 12:53 pm | permalink |