The American Spectator

Mary| 5.29.09 @ 7:28PM

LOL!

Pat is right. He knows what it's like to come under fire too: "good riddance to bad rubbish." Boy he was just radio-active for a while, but his opinion is still sought after, and he can take a punch. I respect that. Plus, he's a Vatican I Catholic. I mean by that, his formation. I'm 18 years younger than he is, but that's my formation too.

Sotomayor has already been Palin-ed a bit, and by her own side. The worst kind of imPaling.

The Republicans don't have a lot to lose, really. The idea that Republicans can get the Hispanic vote, is a pipe dream, I think. They can get it, and then lose it again, but they can never hold it. And the democrats can and have.

If you stopped a person on the street and asked them what the Republican party stood for today, what do you suppose they'd say?

I just got back from Jim's; a small but great place to get fish. And oddly, the people there gave me hope. Hope in the failure and/or rejection of change. They probably don't even vote. They probably look at Washington and can't be moved to believe one word that comes out of any politician's mouth.

Mr. Hillyer's piece today shows a supine triumvirate. I like Senator Hatch a lot. He's a decent and good man. McConnell too; except that during this last election he had a little blurb on his campaign site that amounted to: "who you gonna vote for, the guy who can bring home the bacon, or that other guy?" There's no way Republicans can get very far with that philosophy.

Oldefarte| 5.30.09 @ 11:38AM

I'm with Antel concerning the comparison of Buchanan's and Larison's ideas----the latter seems to attempt to disintegrate an attempt at statement/word reversal used by Sotomayor-Whataburgeroor, which is ludicrous. Am I not as proud of my non-minority heretage as she is, but I'm denied that right due to the left's slander of my southern "roots" [ie the attackes on the Confederate flag,etc]. Additionally, Larison attempts to [just as she has done with the Connecticut firefighter case] "sweep" her racially biased statements "under the [political] rug". Buchanan's ideas are extremely pertinent, especially ones that follow my reasoning that Republican congressmen HAVE TO fight her legal record tooth and nail, even if she's ultimately confirmed. They have to politically template the Democrats' actions/words concerning Bork, Sessions, and Estrada. I think I [and most conservatives] will DEMAND it!!!!

Murphy| 5.30.09 @ 6:03PM

During his final days, William F Buckley was heard to mutter, "The kooks are coming back."

By the "kooks" he was referring to those he'd work so hard to marginalize and mock in the early decades of the conservative movement -- the racists, the xenophobes, the neo- or proto-fascists, the paranoiacs.

Well -- the kooks have returned and found a home on this website, both among a few of the staff writers (though not all), and most of the posters.

Alaska uber alles!

Keep the aspidistra flying, comrades!

Smitty| 5.30.09 @ 7:15PM

Murphy/Jeremiah, it is a distinctive mark of weakness and immorality to call your fellow bloggers filthy, foul names that have no place in polite society. When you engage in this lowbrow behavior you've already lost the debate. Those who can't debate use foul language.

William| 5.30.09 @ 7:17PM

'During his final days, William F Buckley was heard to mutter, "The kooks are coming back."

By the "kooks" he was referring to those he'd work so hard to marginalize and mock in the early decades of the conservative movement -- the racists, the xenophobes, the neo- or proto-fascists, the paranoiacs.'

Is this some sort of crack the the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright?

Murphy| 5.30.09 @ 7:39PM

Smitty --

There's nothing more foul than the bigotry and hatred spewed by posters around here. By comparison my language has been pure as the driven snow.

Many of you believe that if you call others "bigots" and "racists" you'll inoculate yourselves against the same charge.

That's not how it works. Historically, in our society, racism is the systematic legitimation of white privilege or supremacy.

What is really filthy and squalid is the ignorance and virulence of the racism on the display on the right these past two weeks.

Did you think you could find a few sentences imprudently worded by Sotomayor and convince the world she is a "racist"?

What, in the end, do any of you people know about racism?

You are pawns, and as such, you are like slaves. However, there is no law enforcing your slavery. You submit to it of your own free will. It's sick and sad.

Smitty| 5.30.09 @ 9:49PM

Nice try, Murph/Jeremiah, but your bogus charges of racism do not excuse your ugly use of foul language on this blog. When you point your finger to accuse us of racism, three of your fingers are pointing back at you. You are the vicious little liberal bigot, as are Obama and Sotomayor.

Murphy| 5.30.09 @ 10:00PM

Smitty --

Not true. I am not a bigot, and nor is Obama.

However, you and most of the posters on this site most certainly are racists. Calling a black man and a hispanic woman racists is your way of trying to defend against the same charge. It's been done for decades. It's one of the reasons the world calls you people "reactionaries."

Of even more concern is the proto-fascism embedded in dozens of comments I've read on this website. It shows we always have to be on our guard against the vile and irrational underbelly.

Murphy| 5.30.09 @ 10:07PM

Racism consists NOT merely in any judgment based upon race.

Racism has a historical context that you have to consider. In this country, racism is a system of disqualifying, marginalizing, exploiting, humiliating, enslaving, and murdering people of a non-European heritage.

That is NOT to say that whites can never be marginalized, exploited, humiliated, etc. (You people offer abundant evidence.)

However, it is not the case that when white people are denied privilege or position racism has been involved. Certainly affirmative action has gone to far at times. (Consider the historical reality it sought to remedy. I'd say THAT went about 400 years too far.) Certainly it is fair to criticize affirmative action and things like it. And people do, reasonably and with insight into the seriousness of the issue. But you people are just a ranting mob, and accusations of "reverse racism" are absurd and illogical in the extreme.

What we call affirmative action is an attempt -- an imperfect, clumsy, inaccurate attempt -- to remedy the hugest injustices in American history, which in essence was itself a system of affirmative action that guaranteed privilege and position to whites simply because they were whites.

Smitty| 5.30.09 @ 10:43PM

Sorry, Murph/Jeremiah, this is not loony liberal land here and you do NOT get to set the premise. We are not racists on this blog and you know it. Unlike you liberals we DON'T see color, ethnicity or gender; we see the individual. Conservatives believe in a meritocracy: Liberals like you believe in picking and choosing by race and gender--ability be damned.

It was your party that created slavery and fought against its abolishment, it was your party that created the KKK and terrorized blacks--it's your Democrat legacy not ours, so don't try to guilt-trip us for your party's sins.

You're just trying to make up for your egregious past, your enormous guilt by focusing on our differences rather than our commonalities. I do believe that Obama and Sotomayor are bigots because they are looking for payback and are willing to use their lofty positions to do it. I believe you are a bigot by enabling them.

Murphy| 5.31.09 @ 12:12AM

lizhi --

You make more sense than 99% of the people posting on this site. Mega dittoes!

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Smitty| 5.31.09 @ 3:36AM

Kiss my Conservative a$$, moron. What's next, Jeremiah/Murph, you gonna throw an F-bomb at me after you call me an A-Hole? Predictable liberal--you got nothin'.

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Black Pete| 5.31.09 @ 7:11AM

If Patrick Buchanan is so opposed to left-liberalism, why did his "American Conservative" pull out all stops to campaign against McCain and objectively work to install Obama? And to divide the conservative movement? He can write eloquently sometimes but is still a nut-job who sane Conservatives should simply have nothing to do with.

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Outdated| 6.1.09 @ 9:09AM

Hey Murphy, the 60's called; they want their victimhood back. The charge of racism has been so misused and overused for so long that it no longer packs a punch; it means anything. The paper is yellow on that "insult"; better come up with a new one.