"American Conservative" Magazine endorses John Kerry!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

"American Conservative" Magazine Endorses Kerry!


American Conservative magazine just 'endorsed' John Kerry:"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail." <...>

"George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American armies—a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky’s concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft. His immigration policies—temporarily put on hold while he runs for re-election—are just as extreme. A re-elected President Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of low-wage immigrants to do jobs Americans 'won’t do.' This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support."

Link to the magazine:

http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover1.html

CanadaRx posted this and i thought it deserved it's own thread

[Soup Bean]

1. HOOOOORAY for Pat Buchanan!

Go, Pat Go! :)

I don't care. I like Pat, and I think he's an honorable man. Everybody should read his book "A Republic, not an Empire".

And NO, he DIDN'T write "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion".

:) Laugh, everybody. It's Friday night.....

[charlie]

3. Not quiiiiite

His mag's going for Kerry, but Pat himself (inexplicably) has cast his lot with Bush.

[Soup Bean]

6. Drat. Where did Pat HIMSELF go with Bush?

I don't doubt you, but I really want to know. I'm disappointed.

[charlie]

7. Here's an article about his endorsement

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041018.wbuch1018/BNStory/specialUSelection/

[Soup Bean]

8. Thank you.

[stpalm]

2. wow

I nominated for front page :D

True conservatives hate Bush.... only wacko neocons and morons support Bush.

[greekspeak]

4. Nomination seconded

This is GREAT!! Even if Shrub wins, it is only going to be a Pyhrric (spelling?) Victory. The party is going to split.

[Xandor]

5. No, they did NOT endorse Kerry

Careful -- It's only Scott McConnell who has endorsed JK. I'm not sure if this constitutes endorsement by the magazine or not. And Buchanan has endorsed Bush, emphatically. Read his piece in the magazine. The other contibutors are endorsing the various other candidates.

[stpalm]

9. buchanan

Didn't Buchanan write about "How the Right Went Wrong"?

[Eloriel]

10. Another

:kick:

[Maestro]

11. Buchanan is still a dork

but I am glad to see the mag go Kerry!

[proud patriot]

12. I'll say it again cool

[porkrind]

13. best quote

"it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy"

That's because these "cliches" are what really, truly, happens when GOP'ers are at the helm. They loot the treasury and start wars to funnel money to the military-industrial-complex while stabbing the middle class, who is paying the bills, in the back. Welcome to practical compassionate-conservatism. :puke: