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Entry: Ron Paul: It's Payback Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_paul_its_payback_time#11185 Post contents: I believe it was Herr Doktor Gottfried that invented the term "paleoconservative", tounge in cheek at the time, I'm sure, as a counter to the coined term "neoconservative". As to Mr Cundiff's remark that paleoconservatism died with Sam Francis, I must disagree - it is quite alive, as Herr Doktor Gottfried is still alive, and he is quite the living embodiment of "paleoconservatism". Now, is Herr Doktor Gottfried at all "viable" in America? Of course not! America is thoroughly liberal, with no hints of conservatism in it, and has been since [at least] 1865. As I've mentioned before, there can not be a "conservative revolution". The "Ron Paul Revolution" is liberal, and if it were allowed to succeed in becoming a dominant force in American politics (which doesn't necessarily mean Ron Paul winning the Republican nomination), it would be it's most liberal components that would be accepted and promoted - anti-drug prohibition, free trade, etc. That is, today's standard of libertarianism. I support Dr Paul's candidacy, I just have no faith in the American public - America was born of liberalism, it was reborn of liberalism, and it is of liberalism today. Conservatism has no place in American politics and political thought, it never has, and it never will have. Conservatives are a defeated, marginalized bunch in America, and there is nothing that we can do about it, other than wait for America to crumble the same way it's deformed twin, the USSR, crumbled. VIVA LE REACTION! Sent at: 2008 05 15