House of Eratosthenes

A month ago, after looking in to the word neocon, what exactly it is supposed to have meant and what exactly it has come to mean, I came to the conclusion that this is so important that it defines a modern ideological split that has entirely replaced the traditional Republican/democrat schism. We have Republicans that are numerous and passionate, disagreeing viscerally on some issues on which their opponents are equally Republican, numerous and passionate. Abortion rights, gay marriage, grabbing guns, spending money. And you can say the same about the donk party — withdrawing from Iraq and impeaching the 43rd President.

The Republican/donk split pre-dates the civil war. It hasn’t kept pace with the times.

We are now neocons and socialists. And a neocon, used there, is anybody who is not a socialist.

This creates a lot of problems…for certain people. Problems which are ultimately of their own making. And Ron Paul, I’m looking right at you.

Now fed up with the neocon’s wars abroad and the diminishing of civil liberties at home, many conservatives are rallying behind Paul, whom they view as the only Republican candidate who isn’t in the pocket of the Israel lobby. They have helped him become an Internet sensation — the Republican Howard Dean, if you will — who in the last quarter raised over $5 million, outpacing more mainstream candidates like John McCain.

Even with his hardline protectionist stance, Paul has managed to garner the support of Jewish Republicans and Libertarians alike, some of whom have banded together to form an ad hoc coalition called Jews for Ron Paul, which condemned the RJC’s decision to bar the Congressman from their Candidate’s Forum.

Yet, much to his Jewish supporters’ chagrin, Congressman Paul’s willingness to stand up to the neocons has also had the effect of making Paul a popular candidate among those from whom Presidential candidates would typically not desire support: Bona fide antisemites.

Indeed, Ron Paul has become the most popular candidate among right-wing extremists, including white separatists, neo-Nazis, and conspiracy theorists who believe that “the Zionists” were behind 9/11. This group includes Frank Weltner, creator of the antisemitic website JewWatch.com, who in a YouTube video, accuses the “Zionist-controlled media” of attacking Paul’s candidacy. Paul has also received favorable coverage from the Vanguard News Network, a White Nationalist news organ, members of Stormfront, an online neo-Nazi community, as well as the National Alliance, the “mainstream” White Nationalist group featured prominently in Marc Levin’s 2005 film Protocols of Zion.

Of course, Congressman Paul cannot be held accountable for the views of his extremist supporters, unless he publicly acquiesces to those views. Yet, when his extremist supporters begin providing a substantial amount of campaign funds, things get a bit dicier. And that’s Paul’s biggest problem.

According to the Lone Star Times, White Nationalists have become a noticeable source of financial contributions to the Paul campaign. Indeed, even Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, and one of the most notorious neo-Nazis in America, has personally contributed $500 to Paul’s campaign.

Though it’s true that Paul’s campaign has no control over who sends them money in advance, once it becomes apparent that a neo-Nazi leader is sending money, any sensible politician who does not wish to be identified with neo-Nazism should send the money back. Not so for Ron Paul, however, whose campaign is still making up its mind as to whether or not to return Black’s money.

Does Ron Paul deserved to be slimed over this?

I think he does. He’s not nearly as crazy as people say he is, and he’s been in Washington a long time. He’s built his career lately out of opposing the “neocon” threat, and it’s not demanding too much to expect he should have as decent an inventory as anybody else as to who is unsympathetic to neocons: It’s a ghastly menagerie of zealots each clinging to an issue that is cosmetically autonomous from all the others — yet, in reality, and Congressman Paul knows this, those issues have a relationship with each other.

Eye Hayt Boosh. U.S. and Israel are bombing and killing Palestinian babies. We have to legalize pot. Abortion on demand. Capital gains. Roll back the tax cuts. Increase the minimum wage. Unions never do anything wrong. There is no god. Glowbubble wormening ManBearPig. Give peace a chance. Kids’ TV shows should have less violence and more sex.

Show men ten people who believe in any one of those things, pick any one of the others, and I’ll show you nine people who believe in that second thing. You know it as well as I do. The cohesion is amazing. It’s a direct consequence of ingrained hostility toward independent thinking.

And antisemitism is woven thoroughly in there. I expect more from Ron Paul than jumping at the chance to return the money (and he’s failing to do even that); I expect him to have anticipated this. Yes, the “neocons” have a lot of enemies, but some of those enemies are good enemies to have. I know I wouldn’t want them as friends.

Ron Paul doesn’t seem to be quite so decisive about this.

H/T: New Republic, by way of Instapundit.

Kids’ TV shows should have less violence and more sex.

Coming soon, make that:

Kids’ TV shows should have less violence and more gay sex.

Because the other kind would be sending the wrong message, you know.

I’m pretty sure it would be hate.

😉
- philmon | 11/13/2007 @ 15:35
All of this reminds me of Ross Perot. Regardless of his zaniness he proposed some ideas. Notice before the vote no one talked about deficits. After he pulled 20 million votes you could get run over by politicians trying to get an anti-deficit sound bite. Apropos of nothing I thought I would propose some ideas that might actually get peoples attention.

1. Finding and killing terrorists is a long hard job. But guess what we’ve got a great group of people who actually like doing that job, and they’re very good at it. My first order will be to the SEALS, Marines, Rangers, and various and sundry service members, “bring me their heads and I’ll reward you.”

2. We’ve got plenty of your money for revenues, we need to work on the spending thing now.

3. Iran is actually trying to get a nuke, and I don’t think that’s a really good idea. Maybe we shouldn’t let that happen.

4. Schools are not labs to perform bizarre social experiments on children. BTW if you sexualize children is anyone surprised when they have sex?

5. The Palestinians want Israel gone, dead, kaput. That’s falls in the bad idea category.

6. Vigorous diplomacy. Well, I think sometimes war is a form of diplomacy. Sometimes you just have to do it.

I could waste more bandwidth but I’ll stop there.

Cheers
- Allen L | 11/13/2007 @ 17:58
Well, you’re clearly a dirty rotten n-word. And by that I mean the n-word used above, not the traditional one.

I really like your idea #1.

It’s often said you can’t kill terrorism because when you kill a terrorist two or three pop up in the place where the one terrorist used to be — we’ll never run out of ’em. The position of this blog is that this idea should be put to the test.
- mkfreeberg | 11/13/2007 @ 19:33
Screw that. It’s the Chuck E Cheese model. No more whack a mole. Mole pops up, rip it out.

OK I’m a neocon I guess.
- Allen L | 11/13/2007 @ 22:08
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