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John Rocker, the baseball player for
Atlanta, made politically incorrect remarks about
New York City. Those liberals in baseball who claim
they love free speech suspended him for it.
When he returned from suspension, he received a
standing ovation from the fans. They cheered, they
roared, they rebel-yelled.
Funny, I didn't see much about that in press, which
has faithfully reported every condemnation of Rocker.
People, real people, don't like political correctness.
Real people consider political correctness a lot
more of a threat to their own freedom of speech
than any bigoted remarks by a baseball player might
be. So when the libs condemned Rocker, he became
a hero to the fans.
So while respectable conservatives crawl and drool
at every media condemnation, they could gain popularity
by standing on their hind legs and defending the
rights of those who offend the left.
Don't hold your breath until that happens.
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Belatedly, Bush people have begun
to hit the real weakness of the McCain-Feinfold-Gore
"reform" program. As their poll numbers
against Gore went steadily down, they became desperate.
And, as I have pointed out before, it is only when
they get desperate that respectable conservatives
ever make a point (See December 25 article, "Bush
Actually Makes A Point"). After being beaten
half to death with the issue, they are finally pointing
out that this so-called reform would cut Republican
financial sources but leave union bosses absolutely
free to spend all they want to.
But on the gun issue, Bush people are, like all
respectable conservatives, utterly helpless. Former
Democratic Texas Governor Ann Richards, whom Bush
beat to become governor, was discussing the fact
in a recent debate that she opposed the concealed
weapons law Bush signed. No one asked her the obvious
question, whether those permits have been misused
at all in Texas.
As liberals have already pointed out, Gore is going
to beat Bush to death with that concealed weapons
law, not because it wasn't a success, but because
respectable conservatives can't deal with it.
But the one gaping difference between regular Republicans
and McCain that was almost totally unmentioned was
the one that a Southern nationalist might find most
critical. That is the difference in foreign policy.
Only Buchanan is pressing this issue.
The use of American armed forces to mix ethnic groups
in Europe is of critical importance to the left.
It is something Gore and McCain are united about,
with McCain the more fanatical. Liberals don't mention
it, which indicates they don't want it emphasized.
Naturally, if liberals don't want it mentioned,
respectable conservatives aren't going to bring
it up.
Respectable conservatives will not discuss an issue
where liberal policy is potentially disastrous.
Such issues are also the ones on which they are
most likely to sell us out.
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The fact that McCain lost the nomination is not the end
of his usefulness to the media and other liberals.
McCain defied almost the entire Republican Party in his
desperation to enforce the multiethnic policy on Kosovo
with American blood.
The media did not even mention that issue in their coverage
of the campaign. Bush naturally did not mention it either.
Bush could have gained considerably in the campaign by
pressing this issue to a Republican primary electorate
which is not enamored of fighting liberal wars. But the
liberal media made it clear that this would not be respectable.
So Bush and his crew went along. It is distinctly possible
that the Kosovo situation is going to blow up between
now and November. If Bush issued warnings on this, such
a blowup will put Gore in a bad position. No respectable
conservative is going to press an issue that could be
that embarrassing for a liberal.
So clearly Bush has to somehow adopt the liberal foreign
policy position.
But there is a limit to how openly even a moderate Republican
like Bush can sell out. He would do anything to court
liberal favor, but openly advocating their foreign policy
right now would be too much. But it can be done under
a Bush Administration. When it comes to moderate Republicans,
liberals find nothing impossible if they really want it.
And they really want a Clinton-McCain foreign policy.
So it turns out that the media are just worried to death
about the split between Bush and McCain. They look forward
to a "deal" between them. All for the good of
the Republican Party, of course. I must have heard liberals
mention McCain for Secretary of State at least five times
recently. If not Secretary of State, one liberal opined,
then McCain might accept Secretary of Defense.
Now I wonder why they happened to pick those two positions?
Secretary of State and Defense are the positions which
determine where American force will be used. After such
a deal, does anybody think McCain would quietly accept
the present Republican policy on ethnic mixing and the
like?
As the British would say, "Not bloody likely."
With all the media and his own Defense or State Secretary
demanding American blood for liberal policies, how long
would a weak-kneed middle of the road Republican hold
out?
Liberals know that all they need to do is get some Americans
killed for liberal foreign policy. As soon as that happens,
liberal foreign goals will become a holy cause to American
conservatives. This is what happened in Vietnam. Conservatives
started by demanding that America either fight to win
or get out, but liberals did not want to fight Communists
the way they would a right-wing enemy, and they did not
want to be the ones to lose America's first war. So they
chose the gradual escalation of the war in Vietnam.
As soon as Americans began dying over there, conservatives
declared American blood expendable. Here was a chance
for a vast increase in military expenditures, the one
thing for which conservatives salivate. You may expect
the same reaction when Bush adopts a McCain war policy.
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