Interesting piece.  Could it be that neocons are distancing themselves from McCain, in case he blows the fall election?  They might be happier if Mac chooses Romney as his VP, since the NR crowd endorsed him anyway.

McCain will get little help from the neocons from here on through. They are as reliable a disaster barometer as rats on a sinking ship. The best McCain can hope for is his November defeat won’t be a 1980-style blowout - in which the night is over before retiree polling place volunteers on the West Coast are sent home before their last Meals-on-Wheels chowdown. Fred Thompson and a handfull of other GOP Young Turks have rebuffed the VP slot on a McCain ticket - why should they hitch their wagon to a loser? The neocons feed on a host until its usefulness if drained away, then move on.

They are whinging about the Times not printing McCains latest flip flop on an issue. He has been on both sides of most issues so why bother reporting more of the same.
Saxby Chambliss got his sea by just flipping the results in a couple Democratic counties in Georgia. There was massive fraud in Ohio to get Bush’s second term. We’ll just get another round of the media scratching their head saying gee, those polls are sure inaccurate. And no one will complain. President McCain is a shoo in.

“...I doubt I’d use it in my newspaper, even if I were running an enterprise as modest as the Podunk News.” I don’t want to make too much of this, but Podunk is a real village in a Midwestern state where my grandmother taught K-8 in a one room school house. A brittle, facile attitude toward real Americana has its drawbacks.

Oops, then this charming gem: “Clearly these ‘conservative’ publicists have far more influence with the Times than the GOP, which from the Times’ editorial post might look like a collection of cognitively defective goyim (which is exactly what they are).”

I guess we were lucky when the good professor was being brittle and facile. “Goyim” as a term of opprobrium is all one would have to say to express disgust --- the “cognitively defective” is a well-understood lesser included term of abuse.  If paleocons or post-paleocons are going to talk like this, that’s a lot more pushing away of various people than drawing them in.

Somehow I recall learning from various sources over the last few years that the majority of the neocon intellectual establishment are Jews who are red-diaper babies, ex-Trotskyists, ex-Stalinists, or otherwise have a proper Marxist-Leninist background.  It is entirely reasonable that Jews from the former Russian Empire should hate the Tsar instinctively and have come to hate the Communism which replaced the Tsar in the former Russian Empire, since the Leninists continued the Tsar’s anti-Judaic ways.

The problem is the Jewish conviction that the Jews are the Chosen Ones.  This leads to a belief in innate superiority.  Whatever the Jewish self-identified intellectuals believe in at the moment is the Word of God, whether they believe in God or not.  This means, among other things, that they cannot be wrong, and that anyone who disagrees with them is either a fool, a knave, or both.

Jews are hardly the only ones with this thought system.  Calvinists such as Woodrow Wilson and Wiener are subject to it in a big way, and Osama bin Laden has a serious case but from a different perspective.  But it’s fascinating how the Podhoretzes and Kristols manage to come out just like an Orthodox Jew like Joe Lieberman, i.e. whatever they fancy might be good for Israel is the righteous imperative, regardless of the consequences.  And who takes the non-Zionist goyim seriously anyway?

I forget the exact date, but New York magazine actually had an article that was self-critical.  They correctly noticed that their positions supporting Obama and the fact that they celebrate black working class culture(?) by liking hip hop makes them quasi-imperialists. 

The white liberal author confessed his ignorance of white working class culture (one would imagine Hee Haw, Jeff Foxworthy and maybe Jack Daniels) which could be a reason that the number of readers of newspapers and magazines of the liberal persuasion were declining.  I would say that that analysis was dead on, but normal service resumed and it has never stopped at the NY Times.

It’s pretty funny to see that no matter how much Gottfried bashes the neocons to prove his gentilish bona fides, all his readers want to talk about in response to his pieces is how nasty the Jews are.

Your own obsession is showing, pobrecito.

I love piling on, being honest, i just simply love. In Brooklyn we used to play
buck-buck when we were kids and learned first hand the joy of being the last one on top
before the whole pile collapsed. Besides not being a native born american (is this
election also going to end up in the supreme court?), mcCain’s ineptitude learning to
fly in the navy lost us 5 taxpayers’ jets i’ve read which was a record. The sixth was
shot down by the enemy. Since mcCain is incompetent enough to have been made an
‘insider’ by those above him, he’s no threat in other words we won’t see the real
mcCoy I mean mcCain in the media or press. So I’ve recommended people rent the movie
‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ and focus on Buddy Hackett’s opportunity in the film
behind the wheel of a plane for the counter-balancing analogy to mcCain’s carefully
cultivated media Image. W. Bush in terms of his military service was apparently prudent
enough to avoid flying as much as possible for our nation’s own good. Finally know this
too about mcCain as per one of his recent press releases he doesn’t use the internet he
does not even send e-Mail (it all must look too much like a control panel) and an
‘expert’ has been hired to bring john up to date on using a computer.