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Entry: Goodbye to Politics Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/goodbye_to_politics#13594 Post contents: Paul never had a chance and anyone who thought he did was fooling themselves. At best he might have achieved a Perot-like shakeup of the system but apparently he won't even reach that level. This whole Paul episode is a good example of modern conservative and libertarian politics in microcosm. Paul and his supporters want to talk about taxes and freedom; his opponents successfully attacked him as a racist. Politics in America since the 1960s has been about race and culture, and you can't confront a fundamentally genocidal system with a philosophy of individualism. Paul thinks the struggle is about personal freedom, the system grabbed him by the short and curlies and showed him what it is really about. The Republicans and Buckleyites gleefully joined in, indeed initiated, the assault on Paul for the obvious reason that his platform (straight, old-time conservatism for the most part) is an embarrassing reminder of their hollowness. They're country club elitists who only care about their class interests and are not above tapping in to racial correctness, as they have proved oh so often, to quell any insurgency on their side. (National Review has some major PC skeletons in its own closet, it's interesting that they never get attacked over them). New Hampshire is rapidly going blue due to the mass influx of liberals fleeing the nests they have so thoroughly fouled. New Hampshire is largely a Black (and Mexican and Puerto Rican and . . .) Free Zone, that's what draws them there, though they'd never admit it, the hypocrites. It's the schools, and the quality of life (cough), etc. The New Hampshire that might have given Paul a solid protest vote is rapidly disappearing and again racial politics are at the heart of the change. Sent at: 2009 01 07