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Entry: Will The Unnecessary War Damage the Antiwar Right? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/will_the_unnecessary_war_damage_the_antiwar_right#29668 Post contents: Marcus: Your dead on. The only reason I am a traditional conservative today is because of Pat Buchanan. As a kid, I greatly admired Pat. I was raised in an evangelical home. My family was drawn to his hard-line on the culture war. But I also respected his "America First" economic policy, as well his stance on non-interventionism. Unfortunately, throughout my college years I flirted with neoconservatism. I suppose I was steered down that path by my knee jerk reaction to 9/11, along with the influence of Fox News and the Sean Hannity types, as well as the instruction I received from a neocon history professor. In those days, I thought Pat had lost his way somewhere. Little did I know, I had lost mine. It was only after college that I pursued the qualms I harbored for Bush, the Republicans, and the War in Iraq. I could no longer rationalize away my disappointments with the establishment and the lies they had fed me. I resolved to find answers, but I did not know who to turn to. I looked to the most conservative person I could think of at the time: Pat Buchanan. I read everyone of his articles on neo-conservatism. Buchanan's book "Where the Right Went Wrong" opened up my eyes. The lights turned on. I was home again. Shorty thereafter, I subscribed to The American Conservative. Currently, I am in law school and hope to practice constitutional law and advance the cause of paleoconservatism (I think it’s still alive, despite Paul Gottfried’s thesis to the contrary—because neither he or I are dead yet!). And I have Pat Buchanan to thank in large part for my political journey. After this incident with Scott McConnell, however, I contemplating whether or not I should renew my subscription to the magazine. My subscription is now upwards of four years old. It will be a hard decision for me. God Bless. Sent at: 2009 01 08