lewrockwell.com had a comic once featuring “nate the neocon”.  I don’t remember who drew it.  He is being interviewed at a tv station and somehow ends up being the substitute weatherman.  he makes stuff up, much to the chagrin of actual meteorologists and is completely wrong, but gets hired to be the new weather guy

“Do you really think a man who’d seriously consider Joe “Partial Birth” Lieberman as a running mate is going to appoint another Scalia to the Court? If you buy that, I’ve got a bridge in Basra I’d like to sell you. “

Keep your bridge but remember we managed to get Alito over Harriet.  It may be the only upside to McCain but it is better than throwing in the towel forever by voting for Obama.  Or do you really believe that there will be a political “realignment” if Obama screws things up?  I got a bridge of my own to sell you.

One thing, if McCain wins, as the Depression takes hold,
it will be unsafe to be a Republican.  It would be a miracle
if the American people did not start hanging Republicans from the
lampposts.

I asked my bank about (very modest) college fund I have for kids and the reply was that they invest not only in US market but abroad as well. Can you hear that “giant sucking sound” of investments leaving US or is it just me?
One question for economists, your bet is that if US goes into recession so will the rest of the world. What if it doesn’t? What if China, Brazil, Russia shrug it off while US and Europe hit the doldrums?

McCain is going to make Hoover look good.The Democrats will be awful but they are very incompetent as well.Let them be the captains of the Titanic.

You are right Zmirak. I’m planning on hitting a “D” in November, and I loved Reagan more than anybody I know and think Buchannan is a real paragon of rectitude.

I want to see the neo-cons go down in flames.

Just to be clear: I’m NOT suggesting people vote for any of the Democrats. Write in a real prolife conservative candidate like… Ron Paul! Strategically, I PREDICT it would be disastrous for all the causes we cherish if McCain won. It would be like electing… I don’t know, Spiro Agnew? Curtis LeMay? Or dare I say, John Hagee.

“who have always been profoundly un-American”

Yes, the cult of Americanism has done wonders for the conservative cause.

“their strange mumbo-jumbo”

Christopher Hitchens would undoubtedly agree.

“superstitious belief in the pope.”

Oh, but there is a pope.  I’ve seen him.

Oh, right.

I think you meant
“papal infallibility”.

Yes, nothing says “true paleoconservative” like rabid anti-Catholicism.

Chronicles Magazine, American Conservative,
Takimag, they all devote considerable effort to exposing the papist menace.

Why should Catholics have to leave the land THEY discovered? The English came to the New World as carpetbaggers.

‘Luckily, almost all Catholics in the United States turn into de facto Protestants.’

Hey Forrest,

The Catholic Church took care of that in 1965 with Vatican II, 98% of Catholics are
for all intents and purposes protestants now anyway, in belief and in liturgy. Your
‘mumbo jumbo’ (that’s Latin for ‘jeez I’m an ignorant ass) is long gone. Don’t let
let the occasional fiddleback chasuble and incense fool ya....

They have also wrapped themselves the flag and heretical Americanism just like you
protties, so it looks like you’re a little late to the party with your bigotry.

It’s difficult to believe that a man such as Forrest, with such excellent taste in Bourbon, actually believes what he wrote. I think he was just being sarcastic.
[Say it aint so...]

Unfortunately, during the last forty odd years, most Catholics have turned into de facto protestants and, in doing so, contributed to America’s cultural decline.

@John,

I agree with you and hope that if Ron Paul decides to end his race and not run on a third party ticket that former Cong. Bob Barr runs as a Libertarian. I think Barr might collect enough votes to derail the Straight Jacket Express. The names fits for the express is filled with lunatics starting with McCain himself along with Hagee and Norman Podhoretz.

The amount of loathing and contempt I have for the modern Republican party makes me desirious to see this party of Wall Street and Warfare totally destroyed this November. Going down history’s commode is a well deserve fate for them.

Admiral Fallon --- axed.

Cheney --- on an anti-dipomacy shuttle through the mid-east.

GOP ---- on the ropes.

Look for a trip wire incident to get the bombs dropping on Iran before the election, to dissuade voters from pulling the lever for the foreign-policy-weak Obama. John “The Bomb” McCain surfs into office on a wave of war hysteria and paranoia, pulling an unexpected election victory of the bag for the brown-shirts......uh, Republican Party. Stranger things have happened.

@Forrest,

Catholics, un-American? Au contraire, according to de Tocqueville in Democracy in America: “American Catholics are both the most obedient believers and the most independent citizens.”

(Section heading: Religion considered as a political institution which powerfully supports the maintenance of a democratic republic among Americans, not the Harvey Mansfield translation)

American Catholicism in its Anglophone and Gaelofone origins is the most anti-statist and anti-fascist of any American intellectual and political tradition.  I have great hopes for the emergence of an explicit anarchic libertarian development in the American Catholic tradition. And I had had the hope that Ron Paul might have been the first American president to convert in the White House since his thought embodied Catholic teaching so seamlessly across the board. Pace Mr. Z, no Hapsburgs for me thank you.

That said, I agree with the idea that American Catholics become less authentically American as well as less authentically Catholic as they have become assimilated into the mainstream welfare/warfare ideology and practice of the American empire.  But even this situation is an opportunity for lay Catholics to chart their own course as “Conservative Christian Anarchists” and reorganize far from the Catholic bishops and their bromidic welfaring warfaring opportunism.

The bishops suck.  A case in point is Edward “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if Bill Bennet became president” Cardinal Egan of New York, whose admiration and support of Giuliani and whose loathing of Ron Paul has been an open secret.  For bureaucrats like Egan, their relation to the state and their invitation to dinner parties are their paramount considerations.  Thank God they are so boring and uninspiring, although I suspect that this is due to their cynicism.