http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=11089 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:14:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=11089&cpage=1#comment-227026 Eclectic Radical Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:44:11 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=11089#comment-227026 What struck me most about the Ron Paul candicacy was the way that establishment neoconservatism (from Ann Coulter to the Republican talking heads on CNN) dismissed Paul as 'not even being a real Republican' because of his dissent from neoconservatives on foreign policy. Despite his opposition to the current neoconservative Republican establishment on a range of economic and foreign policy issues, Paul has a lot more in common with 'classic' paleoconservatives of the Pat Buchanan stripe than with libertarians. That is a very Republican ideological group, claiming to be directly derived from Robert Taft small government isolationism and certainly resembling it in many ways. Entirely Republican and not 'libertarian' at all.   Indeed, in his day, Robert Taft's nickname was 'Mr. Republican.' It just goes to show how far the modern neoconservative corporate/imperialist view of the world has diverged from 'classical conservatism.'   What struck me most about the Ron Paul candicacy was the way that establishment neoconservatism (from Ann Coulter to the Republican talking heads on CNN) dismissed Paul as ‘not even being a real Republican’ because of his dissent from neoconservatives on foreign policy. Despite his opposition to the current neoconservative Republican establishment on a range of economic and foreign policy issues, Paul has a lot more in common with ‘classic’ paleoconservatives of the Pat Buchanan stripe than with libertarians. That is a very Republican ideological group, claiming to be directly derived from Robert Taft small government isolationism and certainly resembling it in many ways. Entirely Republican and not ‘libertarian’ at all.
 
Indeed, in his day, Robert Taft’s nickname was ‘Mr. Republican.’ It just goes to show how far the modern neoconservative corporate/imperialist view of the world has diverged from ‘classical conservatism.’
 

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=11089&cpage=1#comment-227018 AllenS Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:20 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=11089#comment-227018 Well said. Well said.

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