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5.17.07 @ 12:01AM

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I was very pleased to hear Rudy Giuliani pounce on Ron Paul's ridiculous statement that America was basically responsible for 9/11.

That paranoid mindset is part and parcel of the extreme anti-Semitic Right, the so-called "Perot-Buchanan" wing of the conservative movement, which in my view threatens to take over the whole ball of wax and re-create the "Third Reich."

The "Perot-Buchanan" conservatives are not really conservatives. They are crypto-Nazis. They deny (or at least question) the Holocaust. They condemn Israel, the Middle East's only true functioning democracy. In their more iconoclastic moments, they might spout the "Blood Libel." They read Eustace Mullins. They admire Ezra Pound's poetry, but not for literary reasons. They condemn the so-called "New World Order," which in their twisted worldview should have that first letter changed from "N" to "J" (you know what I mean). They are often caricatured in the media as trailer-inhabiting, chaw-spitting, down-home "crackers" who love their guns more than their spouses, but that's misleading.

They are smart, savvy -- and dangerous. Their candidate-du-jour is Ron Paul, who last night sounded polished, intellectual, smooth -- and truly frightening.

I just saw Buchanan's latest anti-Bush screed, entitled "The New World Order GOP" (see above). This from a man who called Hitler "an individual of great courage." We all know why Buchanan hates President Bush -- it's because Bush is the most pro-Israel President since Harry Truman. Therefore, Buchanan's Bush-hatred is just one more manifestation of his overt anti-Semitism. A clever one, but evil nonetheless. Buchanan isn't running, but his surrogate, Ron Paul, is. And I'm eternally grateful that Rudy smacked him down last night. You go, Rudy!
-- Daniel K. Weir
Atlanta, Georgia

In the perfect media storm over the latest supposedly Republican debate, one little and I am sure unintentionally hilarious moment was Mitt's Herculean fence straddling. Romney's response to a question about his outlawing semi auto rifles in his home state of Massachusetts. Says he basically, "I support the 2nd Amendment, but I outlawed assault rifles." The total pandering to both sides and soul deep ignorance and deception involved in this answer from a showboating "NRA member" (albeit just joined this year) shows just what kind of "Republican" we are dealing with. Not to mention his collapsing "Universal Health Care" in his home state being paid for by all tax payers in the US. The top two "Republican" candidates, Mitt and Rudy are far left Northeastern control your lives because we know better Liberals. At least Rudy is no longer trying to hide. Mitt still is. For us in the base, conservatives, there is no one to vote affirmatively for, yet. I would never vote for the Demcong candidate because to do so is an affirmative vote for tyranny. Unfortunately I see the same result in an incremental fashion in voting for any of the current crop of "Republicans." Even behind enemy lines in Seattle.
-- Craig Sarver
Seattle, Washington

I agree, Rudy was "way OK," but he can and must do better. Despite all his smarts, he still hasn't knocked the abortion issue out of the park. Apparently, like our beloved Yankees, Rudy's in a bit of a slump. Some free advise, Rudy; all you need to do is conjoin two thoughts you have said separately into one paragraph. It goes like this: "While I'm pro-choice, I'm also an originalist when it comes to the Constitution. Roe v. Wade is a Constitutional abomination, it's bad law. I will appoint originalist judges to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Abortion should be left up to the people and the individual states to decide, not nine judges." That's honest and fair. Conservatives should be satisfied with that answer.

McCain was classic. When challenged, his anger became palpable and he dug his heels in even deeper. His defense of McCain-Feingold was pitiful. It's about political free speech, the bulwark of our freedoms protected by the Constitution, not whether there's too much money in politics. As if McCain-Feingold has solved that problem. Yea, right. As I've said previously, this man is temperamentally unfit to be president; he is an insufferable egoist, the poster-child of the entrenched Washington ruling elite The rest of the field was impressive. Each one, far superior than any Democrat, with their cogent, rationale arguments. Except Ron Paul. This Pat Buchanan isolationist acolyte, is so far around the bend, he's ended up with the MoveOn crowd. This guy's loony leftist theories belong in the Democrat's debate. He needs to be traded for a player to be named later.
-- A. DiPentima

Ron Paul has a nancy-boy voice, big ears, and the Generation Whine hippie line of patter that makes anyone over the age of 40 instantly want to slap him silly. After seeing his performance last night, even before he started the "9/11 Is All Our Fault" tap dance, I can't imagine how anybody with an ounce of intelligence could vote for him for Student Council President, much less President of the Free World.

Mr. Paul, go back to your blog and leave the grownups to manage the world.
-- Kate Shaw

A POLITE SOCIETY
Re: David Hogberg's Armed With Knowledge:

Since my wife sings in the church choir and hears the same sermon repeated 3 times each Sunday, I've gained a better appreciation of the phrase "preaching to the choir." David Hogberg's suggestions for arming the public, especially teachers, are logical and timely. But, it's a redundant argument to firearm owners and completely ineffective with the gun control folks.

In recent years, anger management classes are a response and an "official" recognition that a segment of the population can't control certain emotions, particularly anger. What Hogberg might have suggested are fear management classes and an official recognition that the gun control folks have an inordinate fear of firearms stemming from their irrational fear of violence. As with unreasonable anger as a response to certain social situations, violence anxieties give rise to the use of phrases like "random violence."

The New York Times' target readers on the upper West Side are already convinced there is too much random violence in our society and find nothing illogical in employing the phrase "random violence." For them, random violence resonates on two levels; the lack of premeditated selection of victims, but also that violence is endemic throughout our society and they might be its next victim. It's trendy and politically correct to support gun control and no one should think less of you if you are frightened of violence.

Firearm owners already "get" the message; the individual has to be prepared to deal with violence. But, the gun control folks aren't going to suddenly slap their foreheads and say: "Why didn't I see that before, we should arm the teachers, it's so logical." The necessary first step is fear management classes, but proceeded by the recognition that an irrational fear of violence is an emotional problem, not a logically derived position. Without fear management and control techniques, teachers and students who become physically ill at the thought their colleagues or their teachers might be armed and prepared to inflict violence won't support a policy of citizen self-defense, regardless of how logically it is explained.
-- Patrick Skurka
San Ramon, California

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