Fake and part-time conservatives on parade..... like forever

It's been a rich if dyspeptic 36 hours -- as if God were trying to write a message in the sky that we'd better learn the real political right from its knockoff, or we're through.

Yesterday I just happened to hear what the two reigning neocon radio pundits really think of the only presidential candidate worth mentioning -- Ron Paul.

Rush Limbaugh went first. As I turned the stereo on he was in the middle of some feverish bloviation (isn't he always?), amidst which he breezed "Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate I really can't support. He's got some good ideas but agh, his tinfoil-hat foreign policy ideas!" -- meaning, one assumes, that Dr. Paul is the only candidate who isn't hell-bent on bombing Iran back to the stone age to please Israel.

By the way, Rush planted a tree in Israel once, in memory of his father. Does that tell you anything?

Next it was Sean Vannity on the car radio. "We just can't go with Ron Paul," he ranted. "He's got some good ideas, but I just can't hack his newsletter rhetoric". Yeah, Sean -- those few politically incorrect jibes some little pinko ferreted out of an old Ron Paul newsletter are the most important thing in the world. We can't have a president who has ever offended the diversity thought police -- can we now, Mr. CONservative? Even if the remarks in question were written in the middle of one of the most sterling political careers of the past century -- Ron Paul's -- and even if the candidates now competing with him are certified racists to the marrow of their bones.

Ann Coulter is the blonde siren among rightoid commentators -- the kind that liberals love to jeer at as "Nazis" for their supposed right-wing extremism. But those jerks must be thrilled with her today: did you know that this emaciated diva, who does such good work for the truth when she's not fragging it, is supporting New England communist Mitt Romney for prez?

Isn't that lovely? A picture only Charles Addams could draw! And by an odd (?) coincidence (?), she too spent part of yesterday spitting at the only true statesman bidding for the Oval Office this year:

Coulter Bashes Newt: ‘Tied With Ron Paul As the Least Conservative Candidate’
http://conservativebyte.com/2011/12/coulter-bashes-newt-%e2%80%98tied-with-ron-paul-as-the-least-conservative-candidate%e2%80%99-2/

Go ahead, readers -- you tell me what could possibly be more insane than equating Newt with Ron to any extent whatsoever!

In the issue of The Times Examiner that has just arrived, Pat Buchanan takes on the latest Republican Party diversity mascot -- Marco Rubio. Rubio is the kind of guy that the "respectable conservatives" seize upon with perfervid relief in relation to their paranoia about getting called racist. The fact that Rubio is a big-government fascist isn't a problem -- hey, isn't that the job description for any "mainstream" GOP demigod today?

Buchanan, though, nails Rubio on his warmongering and internationalism, doing us the favor of exposing yet another RINO (Republican in name only) in action:

Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=%20375725

Clearly as a proxy for forces in politics much older than himself, Rubio pushed Congress for Georgia to be admitted to NATO so the USA could enjoy the responsibility of defending Georgia in the likely event that it and Russia are ever shooting at each other again. Do neocons ever think about anything else than bombs and killing?

Rand Paul's great work in opposing Rubio's scheme gives fresh hope that Rand may fully fill Ron's shoes in Congress someday. Rand was the only U.S. Senator who voted against it. Does that have a familiar ring to it?

I beg of you, read and redeploy Buchanan's above column. It is HOT stuff -- gets better as it works logically and irreproachably to its erudite yet ringing, stinging finale!

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PS -- soon after writing this I was driving to Columbia and my radio happened upon some kind of unusually frank and freewheeling call-in talk program. Callers were aghast that the "unlimited detention of civilians" law would pass through CONgress like greased lightning as it did today. They were not at all happy and not mincing words. Half the things your heart most yearns to hear caller nerds say was coming out in the open. (You know what the other half are. You know.)

The host was in a tough spot -- after all, his job is to keep things from getting too real. Eventually somebody said the next logical thing -- they felt it was over for freedom here and the only thing to do is to move to some saner country.

The host was undone. "Tell us you're not serious about that?" He replied. "Yes I am," said the caller. "This country isn't viable any longer. Nobody's safe -- they can jail anybody they want for any reason they want."

The host was chewing his teeth by when the caller hung up. "I can't believe that guy," he muttered. This show is all about the things that matter, but really, leave the country and go somewhere else!? We don't need any tinfoil hat stuff like that! We need to be talking about solutions, like some way to finally get this country back on the right track."

I could have respected him up to that part -- not for those last dunderheaded remarks, but for apparently giving the airwaves an unusually FREE forum each weekday. But what do you think he said next?

You guessed it! "The presidential candidates," he whined, "are a big problem. To tell ya the truth I can't go with any of them at all. None of them are talking with any real urgency about things really bothering the American people -- ''

Yeah -- sure. Get out there and do your part to enhance the coverup, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for year another quadrennium, why don't you?

Listen, folks -- this is your blogger speaking: just vote for Ron Paul -- he is your LAST chance of ANY future for ameriKa. But don't only listen to me on that subject. Don't go with what Rush or Baba Wawa or anybody else says ipso facto; just check the actual voting records of these candidates and their claims and compare such with their history -- and with the realities you know first-hand.

The other Republican Pezidential pretendents are nothing but George W. Bush retreads. They're making the exact same promises he did, and I can promise you you'll have the exact same stuff with them as with him. It happens every election anymore, wouldn't you say?

How many more feckless and clueless amerikan youth do you want to sacrifice for the cause of..... why was it they said they're bombing Libya et al?

How many Vietnams are enough?

If you do support Washington's aggressions, please send me the names of the young close relatives of yours that you're willing to encourage to serve. Or are you planning to enlist yourself?

"Tinfoil hat" is obviously the new faddist cliché. Get ready to hear it ubiquitously and for your friends to start parroting it.

Give us Ron Paul -- or no president at all! /\/