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HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!!
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YeeeHawww!!!!
10/24/2004 9:13 PM
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oh, its a very grudging endorsement, back handed if you will, but they CANNOT stand another term of George Bush!!
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KERRY´S THE ONE.....
By Scott McConnell
There is little in John Kerry’s persona or platform that appeals to conservatives. The flip-flopper charge—the centerpiece of the Republican campaign against Kerry—seems overdone, as Kerry’s contrasting votes are the sort of baggage any senator of long service is likely to pick up. (Bob Dole could tell you all about it.) But Kerry is plainly a conventional liberal and no candidate for a future edition of Profiles in Courage. In my view, he will always deserve censure for his vote in favor of the Iraq War in 2002.
But this election is not about John Kerry. If he were to win, his dearth of charisma would likely ensure him a single term. He would face challenges from within his own party and a thwarting of his most expensive initiatives by a Republican Congress. Much of his presidency would be absorbed by trying to clean up the mess left to him in Iraq. He would be constrained by the swollen deficits and a ripe target for the next Republican nominee.
It is, instead, an election about the presidency of George W. Bush. To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. Because he is the leader of America’s conservative party, he has become the Left’s perfect foil—its dream candidate. The libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has mischievously noted parallels between Bush and Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II: both gained office as a result of family connections, both initiated an unnecessary war that shattered their countries’ budgets. Lenin needed the calamitous reign of Nicholas II to create an opening for the Bolsheviks.
Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail.
During the campaign, few have paid attention to how much the Bush presidency has degraded the image of the United States in the world. Of course there has always been “anti-Americanism.” After the Second World War many European intellectuals argued for a “Third Way” between American-style capitalism and Soviet communism, and a generation later Europe’s radicals embraced every ragged “anti-imperialist” cause that came along. In South America, defiance of “the Yanqui” always draws a crowd. But Bush has somehow managed to take all these sentiments and turbo-charge them. In Europe and indeed all over the world, he has made the United States despised by people who used to be its friends, by businessmen and the middle classes, by moderate and sensible liberals. Never before have democratic foreign governments needed to demonstrate disdain for Washington to their own electorates in order to survive in office. The poll numbers are shocking. In countries like Norway, Germany, France, and Spain, Bush is liked by about seven percent of the populace. In Egypt, recipient of huge piles of American aid in the past two decades, some 98 percent have an unfavorable view of the United States. It’s the same throughout the Middle East.
Bush has accomplished this by giving the U.S. a novel foreign-policy doctrine under which it arrogates to itself the right to invade any country it wants if it feels threatened. It is an American version of the Brezhnev Doctrine, but the latter was at least confined to Eastern Europe. If the analogy seems extreme, what is an appropriate comparison when a country manufactures falsehoods about a foreign government, disseminates them widely, and invades the country on the basis of those falsehoods? It is not an action that any American president has ever taken before. It is not something that “good” countries do. It is the main reason that people all over the world who used to consider the United States a reliable and necessary bulwark of world stability now see us as a menace to their own peace and security.
These sentiments mean that as long as Bush is president, we have no real allies in the world, no friends to help us dig out from the Iraq quagmire. More tragically, they mean that if terrorists succeed in striking at the United States in another 9/11-type attack, many in the world will not only think of the American victims but also of the thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians killed and maimed by American armed forces. The hatred Bush has generated has helped immeasurably those trying to recruit anti-American terrorists—indeed his policies are the gift to terrorism that keeps on giving, as the sons and brothers of slain Iraqis think how they may eventually take their own revenge. Only the seriously deluded could fail to see that a policy so central to America’s survival as a free country as getting hold of loose nuclear materials and controlling nuclear proliferation requires the willingness of foreign countries to provide full, 100 percent co-operation. Making yourself into the world’s most hated country is not an obvious way to secure that help.
I’ve heard people who have known George W. Bush for decades and served prominently in his father’s administration say that he could not possibly have conceived of the doctrine of pre-emptive war by himself, that he was essentially taken for a ride by people with a pre-existing agenda to overturn Saddam Hussein. Bush’s public performances plainly show him to be a man who has never read or thought much about foreign policy. So the inevitable questions are: who makes the key foreign-policy decisions in the Bush presidency, who controls the information flow to the president, how are various options are presented?
The record, from published administration memoirs and in-depth reporting, is one of an administration with a very small group of six or eight real decision-makers, who were set on war from the beginning and who took great pains to shut out arguments from professionals in the CIA and State Department and the U.S. armed forces that contradicted their rosy scenarios about easy victory. Much has been written about the neoconservative hand guiding the Bush presidency—and it is peculiar that one who was fired from the National Security Council in the Reagan administration for suspicion of passing classified material to the Israeli embassy and another who has written position papers for an Israeli Likud Party leader have become key players in the making of American foreign policy.
But neoconservatism now encompasses much more than Israel-obsessed intellectuals and policy insiders. The Bush foreign policy also surfs on deep currents within the Christian Right, some of which see unqualified support of Israel as part of a godly plan to bring about Armageddon and the future kingdom of Christ. These two strands of Jewish and Christian extremism build on one another in the Bush presidency—and President Bush has given not the slightest indication he would restrain either in a second term. With Colin Powell’s departure from the State Department looming, Bush is more than ever the “neoconian candidate.” The only way Americans will have a presidency in which neoconservatives and the Christian Armageddon set are not holding the reins of power is if Kerry is elected.
If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A Bush defeat will ignite a huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of Republicandom: a quest to find out how and where the Bush presidency went wrong. And it is then that more traditional conservatives will have an audience to argue for a conservatism informed by the lessons of history, based in prudence and a sense of continuity with the American past—and to make that case without a powerful White House pulling in the opposite direction.
George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American armies—a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky’s concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft. His immigration policies—temporarily put on hold while he runs for re-election—are just as extreme. A re-elected President Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of low-wage immigrants to do jobs Americans “won’t do.” This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support.
November 8, 2004 issue |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Buchannan HATES Bush with a passion |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
whos buchanan? |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Kerry is no prize.
What you have with Bush you will get with Kerry. They both serve the same master. |
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Ron R.
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Any average American who does any thinking and who checks out the facts of his Policies at all should hate George W. Bush.
For Bush is enept, a flunky, a disgrace to all of America and all that America at one time stood for, before he came into office. |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Sure-theyre both the same-but Ill vote for Kerry anyway-just for a change of scenery |
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david
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
"Sure-theyre both the same-but Ill vote for Kerry anyway-just for a change of scenery"
Brilliant ambition friend. |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Bwahahahahaha! |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
FATBOY-Got your cyanide? |
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freaky
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Although impossible to understand, Buchanon more or less states that the Neocons deserve a second chance to get us out of the war. From the cover of the American Conservative magazine on the same date as the above article, Buchanon wrote the following article:
[link to amconmag.com]
Coming Home
By Patrick J. Buchanan
"There is a final reason I support George W. Bush. A presidential election is a Hatfield-McCoy thing, a tribal affair. No matter the quarrels inside the family, when the shooting starts, you come home to your own. When the Redcoats approached New Orleans to sunder the Union and Jackson was stacking cotton bales and calling for help from any quarter, the pirate Lafitte wrote to the governor of Louisiana to ask permission to fight alongside his old countrymen. “The Black Sheep wants to come home,” Lafitte pleaded." |
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Lane
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
I never thought id live to see this... |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
HA-even the Conservatives cant stand Bush! |
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MT
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
That´s a kick in the old squirrel nuts. |
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Cats, dogs, you know the drill
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
The FOP 300,000 strong endorsed Bush but the International Firefighters Union endorsed Kerry
I tell you this is a madhouse coming, madhouse |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
OP, can you read? Please explain how the article you posted is any endorsement for Kerry. |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
apparantly it is YOU who cannot read-look at the articles TITLE-then read between the lines |
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Goy, Uncut
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
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Read it again
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Its on the Record in several news outlets already
Scott McConnell is the editor in chief baby and he officially endorsed Kerry. Its available at your newstand now. Deal with it darling.
He is not saying he is going to go ´easy´ on Kerry whatsoever and suspects he will be a one termer
Go back and Read it for content:
Here:
"...If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward..."
And here
"...The ONLY way Americans will have a presidency in which neoconservatives and the Christian Armageddon set are NOT holding the reins of power, IS IF KERRY IS ELECTED..."
Is he talking about YOU perhaps, the Christian Armageddon "Set"
Last Sentence:
This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support.
WHAT DOES THE PHRASE
UNWORTHY OF ANY CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT MEAN?
It means the TAC just fucked Caesar, that´s what |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
hee hee |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Fraternal order of Police (FOP) benefitted from funding increases due to homeland security after 9/11.
And they are duly prepared to kill innocent women, like in Boston after the victory celebrations. "Non-lethal weapons" don´t you know.
Firefighters, on the other hand, have lost their lives in staged events like 9/11. No evacuation orders. Bombs going off. Locked doors. They knew they were coming down, and let the firefighters die anyway.
Do you understand why one group of public "servants" would NOT want bushistas reelected, and one would? |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
It´s never easy to step in and do the right thing. I admire Bush for his vision and willingness to follow through with what he started. |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
´My´ Republican Party and its fall into corruption... |
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John the philanderer
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
This is too ahlarious!!! |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
chew on THIS travie! |
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dude h homeslice ix
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
too much!  |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
Pat-join us in taking out the neocon trash on Nov 3rde! |
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The silence in Florida is asto
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
I think the New Republic endorsement was even funnier than this. Who else will fall next?
The Florida papers seem mostly against or silent
Guess that nonstop hurricane machine got weary. |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
yes! |
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BadMatt
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
The Financial Times has endorsed Kerry
The New Republic has endorsed Kerry
"The New Republic" is the official magazine of Air Force One
BUUUUUUURN! |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
hee haw |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:19 AM | | Re: HA! THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE endorses KERRY!!!! | Quote |
hee hee! |
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