*NOTE* – Conservative columnist Dylan Hales will be my guest on WTMA’s The Morning Buzz (1250 AM, listen online here at wtma.com) this morning (6/19/08) at 8 AM for the entire hour, and the Ron Paul Democrat himself, Bob Conley will be my guest, and will be taking listeners’ questions, at 9 AM. Writes Hales:
“On Tuesday June 10, 2008, something interesting happened here in South Carolina. For the first time in a long time, an authentically populist conservative won a close race in a very important political primary.Bob Conley is a virtual unknown who defeated an establishment candidate supported by the usual coterie of party insiders and special interest groups. The primary victory was narrow (1,058 votes) and the turnout was very low (only 17%), but nonetheless Conley, a conservative, observant Catholic from a blue-collar background, will be his party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate come November—as a Democrat.“Flattop Bob,” as he is often called, would likely be the first to tell you that he was a long shot to win the Democratic nomination, as he is no conventional Democrat. Whereas his opponent, well-known lawyer and longtime party activist Michael Cone, was the safe and obvious establishment choice
Maverick Conley bolted the GOP a few years ago over amnesty, war and trade policy and was a vocal supporter of Ron Paul’s presidential bid.
Though his primary campaign was poorly covered by the media (a blessing in disguise), Conley represents a unique combination of dissident, anti-establishment themes running on the fringes of both major political parties and his candidacy is perhaps the best hope for putting a paleoconservative in the U.S. Senate this November.”
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Do you know what another word for paleoconervative is? A real American. Not some stinking neo-conservative nor a modern liberal. Freedom and liberty need to ring again, this is not just political talk. Without liberty we lose everything, prosperity, freedom, choice, low prices(happening as we speak because of the growth and destruction of government!), we even lose our rights! We need more paleoconservatives who will help lower civil liberty abuse(no Patriot Act, lower taxes, constitutional foreign policy!) The two party system is not out for America, they are out for their own benefit just like government programs!
Michael — as a Deaniac/Obamabot and unreconstructed Great Society liberal, I’m not sure if I fall in the real American category, but I would agree with you insofar as I’d rather vote for Archie Bunker (paleocon) than Cobra Commander (neocon). Paleocons and the “Old Right” just seem like normal people to me (and let’s admit it — we probably have exactly the same attitude on most issues at the gut-level), whereas the neocons are objectively-speaking total wackos.
For that reason, I suppose, I’ve never been able to dislike Ron Paul (as a constituent of his in the 14th District of Texas, I think he’s a good guy), even though I’d rather vote for a fellow-traveling Meathead such as myself.
I look forward to a glorious future in which normal Americans can stop chasing phantoms a half-a-world-away, declare peace in the Culture Wars, and get back to bickering over particulars like the proper methods for taxing high-quality footwear and and the Constitutionality of government cheese. We can lock arms, move to the suburbs and/or have a nice little farm, and drink lemonade as we watch our children grow up to be normal, employed, upstanding citizens who love America and apple pie. Though they might turn out to be gay Muslim abortionists–but at least they wouldn’t be lazy good-for-nothing bastards. A chicken in every pot and a hybrid car in every garage. All of this and more could be ours, when we can dump the neocons on the right and the grievancemongers on the left. Huzzah!