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Entry: McCain's Base Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccains_base#33422 Post contents: Pat Buchanan, Ex-Conservative Young John Podhoretz in the New York Post, September 10, 1999 derided Pat Buchanan as being an isolationist, a virulent enemy of Israel, an opponent of immigration and a protectionist. After warming up, John denounced Buchanan as a radical populist and being the voice of the “bad Reagan Democrats”. These neerdowells were defined by Podhoretz as being older white working class males who believe the country has been wrested from them by Jews, blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals, with the connivance of the captains of industry and the military-industrial complex. Bad Reagan Democrats like to inveigh against the culture of victimization, but are among its chief exponents and are very vocal about it and their champion, Pat Buchanan. There are not that many of them and they have mostly abandoned politics for the more immediate pseudo-community of the internet. Keeping these people in the GOP is a fool’s errand for the GOP. The GOP must present itself as a positive force for the best and most noble aspects of the American character. People such as myself or my ancestors do not matter. His father, Norman, denigrated the Son Tay raid in North Vietnam. The raid was termed incomprehensible unless it was a gesture to persuade the American people that we were making every efforts to save the prisoners when in fact the prisoners were being abandoned. In this same article Norman ,editor and leading neoconservative intellectual, admitted to opposing the American involvement from the beginning, but conceded he saw no reason to oppose a policy which would prevent a Communist victory as long as American involvement in the war on the ground or in the air was not involved. Later on in that same article Mr. Podhoretz admitted to being embarrassed in confessing he preferred to see an American defeat to continued "Vietnamization" which would require continued American airpower support. Much of what he wrote was not much different from that being written by others who were anxious to demonstrate their public probity, but what clearly distinguished Mr. Podhoretz from his contemporaries in sheer galling hypocrisy was a book he wrote in 1982: Why We Were in Vietnam. This tome explained the American commitment as if we were trying to defend innocents from barbaric invaders, and our noble effort was only done in by malevolent critics. At that time Mr. Podhoretz like so many Jews was motivated by what he perceived as American withdraw of support for Israel. An amusing literary feuds in recent times has been between Mr. Podhoretz and Gore Vidal, a sometime chronicler of the WASP from the leftist view. At one time Mr. Vidal had told Mr. Podhoretz that he was writing a play about the Civil War in America. Mr. Podhoretz told Mr. Vidal that he found the Civil War to be "remote and irrelevant". This blasphemy so startled Mr. Vidal that he decided that Mr. Podhoretz had no intention of becoming an assimilated American, but rather he would continue to live among Americans to raise money and make propaganda for Israel. Sent at: 2008 12 01