The neoconservative “alliance” with the social traditionalists is an unholy marriage of political convenience due to the fanatical support for Israel among religious conservatives in the form of Christian Zionism.  It is based on raw opportunism because as long as the rapturists support the Likudniks, their domestic agenda becomes an afterthought.

I agree with Paul that an alliance with the social left is a pipe-dream, and wouldn’t last longer than the Ribbentrop pact.  It may not be too late for “our guys” to find allies among millions of American Protestants.  As a professor at an evangelical university in Canada, I notice that many of my American students are tiring of neoconservatism but will not embrace Democratic leftism.  That leaves the paleos as the “third way.” Unless the Reverend Hagee has cornered the market on the Protestant heartland, there’s still a chance.

The Republican Party is almost toally gone. Blumenthal is a Clintonista. McCain would be a bipartisan disaster and Clinton would just be a disaster.

Bob Barr is the only hope for a third way. Do we support McCain and wait for the country to find a new way after the collapse or support Clinton (shudder) in a vain hope the party will reform itself. The Whig party died and none mourned. Let the Republicans die and pray those who look for a third way really do outnumber the morons who seem to rule the Republicans.

Prof. Gottfried:

Thanks very much for your kind words on my reivew.

Bob Barr??!?? Come on. The same tired “leadership” isn’t the answer.

Paul Gottfried writes: “But the options that are open to our side do not include marching arm in arm with the social Left: ‘trying to construct an alliance between disenchanted conservatives and leftists who think as Blumenthal does will not work.’”

Ron Paul, in his new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, implies exactly the opposite: “By the end of 2007, more than twice as many Meetup groups had been formed in support of our campaign than for all the rest of the candidates in both parties combined. I have never seen such a diverse coalition rallying to a single banner. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Greens, constitutionalists, whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, antiwar activists, homeschoolers, religious conservatives, freethinkers--all were not only involved, but enthusiastically so. And despite their philosophical differences in some areas, these folks typically found, to their surprise, that they rather liked each other.” (pg. 4)

While what you mean by “marching arm and arm with” the Left is somewhat vague, that’s nevertheless exactly the picture Paul paints here based upon his fundraising experience over the last year.

“While what you mean by “marching arm and arm with” the Left is somewhat vague, that’s nevertheless exactly the picture Paul paints here based upon his fundraising experience over the last year.”

Sir, the “leftists” at the Ron Paul rallies were no more representative of the Left than Don Ho was representative of Hawaii.  (I used to live there so I couldn’t resist the bad analogy.) The left hates Ron Paul.  Hates.

What do the Neocons and the Mainstream Marxists agree on? The love of Big Government, the hatred of non Zionist Christianity (the Marxists hate all Christianity), and the veneration of Israel. They are nearly fanatical about all three.
Who is representing average Americans? Not them.
They should be attacked on all three fronts. Americans will quickly figure out who represents their values and interests.
The main problem paleocons have is that other than the internet and a few low circulation magazines, there is no mass medium for their views.
How to solve this? I would suggest talk radio would be a good place to start.

Blumenthal will not be an ally because he would rather lose than see us win. If this is the “mainstream left,” the same attitude is shared by the mainsteam right. In reality they are two sides of raving, inhuman totalitarianism. (One could label it power-hungry demagoguery just as neatly.)

There really do exist leftists who can discern the difference between the establishment and our type of right/traditionalism. There are leftists who see that their interests do not lie with the powers-that-be. Call them misguided humanists, if you like. To dismiss them as unrepresentitive “protects” one from having to acknowledge a potential shared interest with another human being.