The self-serving hypocrisy of Obama’s critics makes one gasp for oxygen.  Following Mac’s “logic,” if the US working class stopped supporting wars for democracy, well, they’d be godawful “isolationists” (Mac accused Ron Paul of this pyschpathology not so long ago.) What is even more nauseating to watch are Hill’s shills accuse Obama of elitism and even radicalism (given his association with Bill Ayers of the Weathermen).  Clinton’s radical associations in the 60s are as well-documented as her stock portfolio today.  Leftism and corporate elitism are natural allies.  I suspect that the ideal “Clinton Democrat” voter is a yuppie who wants more social programs for the poorest minorities, as long as the working class and lower middle class are compelled to pay for them.  If they refuse, well, they are just being “resentful,” aren’t they?

Gottfried spends most of another excellent article excoriating the cultural Marxists and their Neocon partners in political monopoly (which together comprise the corrupt Washington Establishment) but then at the end encourages Paleocons to pull their punches for fear of being stripped “of the thin layer of resources that keep us in business.”
Having been burned so often in the past by the Marxist/Neocon juggernaut, I can appreciate Gottfried’s reflexive conservatism, but when your opponent is on the ropes is not the time to start pulling punches.
And besides, we are living in a different world than the one dominated by the Marxist/Neocon internationalist-materialist axis. The Iraq war, the Internet, the economic climate, the success of Ron Paul’s candidacy: they all change everything.
Paleocon-libertarians are now feeling their oats, regaining their self-confidence and realizing it is not they who owe anybody an apology; it is the internationalist/materialist axis that has constructed a false historical narrative for its own corrupt purposes, mismanaged this country into the multiplicity of crises that afflict it, and generally pursued policies contemptuous of the average Americans they purport to represent. THEY owe US an apology, and the PL’s shouldn’t stop relentlessly pushing and attacking them until they retake the country from these malign, authoritarian, Christian-hating con-artists.

Pardon me for interjecting the following, which, since it concerns politics generally, is related to this topic, but perhaps only tangentially so, given the state of the debate among the three candidates and the general individualism of the country, as noted by the Holy Father this past week as well:
From Cardinal Garcia, of Valencia, in the run up to the Spanish elections: “The Church has always taught the primacy of the common good, and in doing so, has educated good citizens for each State,” the cardinal said.  “Whoever wants to grow in love according to the model of Jesus Christ cannot set aside his obligations towards the community in which he lives.”
And further on the issue of the primacy of the common good, I just discovered that Notre Dame Press is releasing volume 1 of a projected three volume collected works of Charles de Koninck, a Dr. Cathey favorite, and whose most famous work is “The Primacy of the Common Good: Against the Personalists” which to date seems to be available only in French, but hopefully will be in translation in the following volumes from Notre Dame.

I remember a friend (who sometimes comments here) once said:  “If you’re not being attacked by the SPLC, then you are probably not doing something right.”

The SPLC, ADL and like organizations are irrelevant. They cannot (and will not be permitted to) define justice, or acceptable discourse.  They should not be answered or engaged. And they are in no position to hurt paleoconservatism because they are themselves bankrupt.  I find that “good, educated people”, if you like, no longer much care if they are called racists or anti-Semites, terms grown meaningless from promiscuous use. The anger in the country against immigration, outsourcing, spying and manipulation of our domestic politics by the likes of China and AIPAC, the shedding of American blood for Israel, the stripping of the American economy by multinationals and so forth, is an anger that borders on fury.  In due course it will cross that border. The train has left the station on those crucial issues, and the SPLC, AIPAC, ADL and such like will be brushed aside.  We need only to register that what power they possessed was ceded to them in the first place BY US, in a stupid, pointless abdication of our own will, our own superior moral discernment and worth, our own interests.  Now we see where it has led, and are recalled to ourselves. As this is more widely realized, and it is, every day, there will be no need to answer them.

Just to add my two cents about self censorship, I believe that moral certainty is attractive to people and is part of the success of the radical left.  I’m at a lefty university, and when the liberals talk in their PC gibberish there is a passion about their designated minorities and saving the planet that others don’t have.  What conservatives do is what Gottfried accuses movement of conservatives and neocons of doing.  Conceding all principles of morality to the left and arguing details.  “Yes diversity is great, and no I’m not a racist, and blacks are disadvantaged, but maybe we can pretty please reconsider affitmative action as its now practiced?”

To brag a bit, I’ve argued in class against the principle of diversity and have tried to explain racial difference in school achievement by genes (while my teacher argued it has to do with bed time stories!  Anything but facing the obvious).  Needless to say I’m often not very popular but I can sleep easy at night knowing that while western civillization is ending I’m not keeping my mouth shut out of fear of being called racist., and expl

That’s the spirit Samuel.  The whole battle is the thought that we must all bite our tongue in public to keep from eliciting a non pc word or phrase.  A small group including myself have converted a lot of leftist state workers in the office where I work.  Paleo conservatism has a natural attraction to it.  It’s called the truth.  People can sense it , feel it, and distinguish it from the endless streams of msm lies.

“That’s the spirit Samuel. The whole battle is the thought that we must all bite our tongue in public to keep from eliciting a non pc word or phrase.”

PC is also largely a Jewish construct, coming from the Jewish communists Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer and many more associated with the Frankfurt School. Why isn’t that mentioned at Takimag? The West’s battle is largely Jew-vs.-gentile. Let’s start calling a spade a spade, instead of pretending that Jews are White people who have the same interests as we do.

@Woody,
Thanks for the note regarding the issuance by Notre Dame of Charles de Koninck’s “The Primacy of the Common Good,” which deeply influenced my thinking many years ago. His profound critique of Maritain is still remarkable.
Now, maybe I can retire my old and worn copy.

Interesting aside: last year the Archbishop of Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) officially sancitioned the support by the Navarrese electorate of Carlist Catholic Traditionalist candidates to the Spanish Cortes. While the Traditionalists only garnered 45,000 votes in the last election, that does represent a more than 100 % increase in their totals from the last election. A small cipher, certainly...but for a Catholic, traditionalist, monarchist grouping [the oldest continuous political movement in Europe], well, it is significant.