So, I admit it, I voted for Barack Hussein Obama. And I own a firearm. So call me a f$cking moron, Tam. I voted for Obama as I saw that his foreign policy stance could pull this nation out of the mess of failed foreign policy that Bush has been working so dillegently on.
I hear many right wingers wondering why conservatism lost. I suspect that conservatism did loose, but not on November 3rd. Conservatism lost at the moment that Ron Paul dropped out of the race, at which point there were no conservatives running for president. The movement that lost on November 3rd was Neoconservatism, which is neither conservative (as proven by the Bush adminstration) or new:
Fascism:
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. – Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
Hopefully someone in the GOP will listen to Ron Paul and re-learn what conservatism is and put the party back together, or the GOP is dead.
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"The movement that lost on November 3rd was Neoconservatism..."
I agree on that part 1000%.
"Neoconservatism" = "A nosy, interventionist big government is okey-dokey as long as we mean well and talk about Jesus a lot."
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