FrankRep
02-07-2011, 03:04 PM
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Bill Kristol, son of Irving Kristol -- the Godfather of Neoconservatism (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?257106-Defining-Terms-What-is-a-Neoconservative-%28Neocon%29)
Glenn Beck blasts Bill Kristol: 'Do anything to keep their little fiefdom together' (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/Beck_blasts_Kristol_Do_anything_to_keep_their_litt le_fiefdom_together.html)
Politico
February 07, 2011
Fox News's Glenn Beck lashed out at Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on his radio show this morning, accusing Kristol of betraying conservatism and missing the significance of what Beck sees as an alliance between Islamism and socialism.
"I don't even know if you understand what conservatives are anymore, Billy," Beck said in his extended, sarcastic attack on Kristol. "People like Bill Kristol, I don't think they stand for anything any more. All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched."
Kristol this weekend took Beck to task for the latter's skepticism of the Egyptian uprising:
When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.
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Background:
Bill Kristol: Ron Paul is the Anti-Liberty candidate (http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2007/12/bill-kristol-ron-paul-is-anti-liberty.html)
December 25, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rduigENzHo
[Glenn Beck] brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.
The Liberty movement rebukes you, Bill Kristol! Ron Paul supports the John Birch Society.
Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of the John Birch Society (http://www.vimeo.com/19602654)
http://www.vimeo.com/19602654
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Bill Kristol and the Neoconservative Movement:
Defining Terms: What is a Neoconservative (Neocon)? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?257106-Defining-Terms-What-is-a-Neoconservative-%28Neocon%29)
Neoconservatism's deadly influence: A look at the roots of neoconservatism and the reasons why this deadly movement must be rejected in favor of the true conservatism as envisioned by our Founders
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Conservatives, Neoconservatives and Constitutionalists
John F. McManus, John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) President
August 2010
Early members of The John Birch Society commonly labeled their own and the Society’s political preference as “conservative.” These doughty Americans were opposed to government controls, the United Nations, and anything that smacked of communism. Occasionally, someone with a bit of history under his belt would interject that liberals of the 19th Century were the equivalent of conservatives in the 20th. True enough, but “So what!’ was the frequent rejoinder. It had already become obvious that the terms conservative and liberal weren’t defined with any precision.
Jump ahead 20-30 years and JBS members found themselves being lumped together with so-called conservatives who were advocating bigger government and foreign interventionism. Mercifully, some prominent promoters of these very un-conservative views adopted the term “neoconservative” for themselves. The most prominent of the neocons, journalist Irving Kristol, reveled in being characterized as “the godfather of Neoconservatism,” a title he richly deserved.
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Irving Kristol took delight in being characterized as “the godfather of Neoconservatism.”
Kristol spelled out neocon belief in his 1995 opus Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566632285?ie=UTF8&tag=libert0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1566632285). He said that it squared with Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” and wanted nothing to do with “the kind of isolationism that then permeated American conservatism.” There you have the definition of neoconservatism: socialism and internationalism. Kristol went so far as to candidly admit, “I regard myself as lucky to have been a young Trotskyite and I have not a single bitter memory.” The partner of Lenin in communizing Russia, Trotsky later fell into disfavor for backing the slower route to deadly totalitarianism. If one accepts Kristol’s definition, and there is no reason not to do so, Trotsky was the first neoconservative.
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Bill Kristol, son of Irving Kristol -- the Godfather of Neoconservatism (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?257106-Defining-Terms-What-is-a-Neoconservative-%28Neocon%29)
Glenn Beck blasts Bill Kristol: 'Do anything to keep their little fiefdom together' (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/Beck_blasts_Kristol_Do_anything_to_keep_their_litt le_fiefdom_together.html)
Politico
February 07, 2011
Fox News's Glenn Beck lashed out at Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on his radio show this morning, accusing Kristol of betraying conservatism and missing the significance of what Beck sees as an alliance between Islamism and socialism.
"I don't even know if you understand what conservatives are anymore, Billy," Beck said in his extended, sarcastic attack on Kristol. "People like Bill Kristol, I don't think they stand for anything any more. All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched."
Kristol this weekend took Beck to task for the latter's skepticism of the Egyptian uprising:
When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.
.....
Background:
Bill Kristol: Ron Paul is the Anti-Liberty candidate (http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2007/12/bill-kristol-ron-paul-is-anti-liberty.html)
December 25, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rduigENzHo
[Glenn Beck] brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.
The Liberty movement rebukes you, Bill Kristol! Ron Paul supports the John Birch Society.
Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of the John Birch Society (http://www.vimeo.com/19602654)
http://www.vimeo.com/19602654
_________________________________________________
Bill Kristol and the Neoconservative Movement:
Defining Terms: What is a Neoconservative (Neocon)? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?257106-Defining-Terms-What-is-a-Neoconservative-%28Neocon%29)
Neoconservatism's deadly influence: A look at the roots of neoconservatism and the reasons why this deadly movement must be rejected in favor of the true conservatism as envisioned by our Founders
_________________________________________________
Conservatives, Neoconservatives and Constitutionalists
John F. McManus, John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) President
August 2010
Early members of The John Birch Society commonly labeled their own and the Society’s political preference as “conservative.” These doughty Americans were opposed to government controls, the United Nations, and anything that smacked of communism. Occasionally, someone with a bit of history under his belt would interject that liberals of the 19th Century were the equivalent of conservatives in the 20th. True enough, but “So what!’ was the frequent rejoinder. It had already become obvious that the terms conservative and liberal weren’t defined with any precision.
Jump ahead 20-30 years and JBS members found themselves being lumped together with so-called conservatives who were advocating bigger government and foreign interventionism. Mercifully, some prominent promoters of these very un-conservative views adopted the term “neoconservative” for themselves. The most prominent of the neocons, journalist Irving Kristol, reveled in being characterized as “the godfather of Neoconservatism,” a title he richly deserved.
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxKy0xWYQfTN6FrdrHgBH3flC8bukVQ fZsNmmWsNY1zGbX29c&t=1&usg=__xhP1W-LdDRoNYWQ_XDzrcOAXIhA=
Irving Kristol took delight in being characterized as “the godfather of Neoconservatism.”
Kristol spelled out neocon belief in his 1995 opus Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566632285?ie=UTF8&tag=libert0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1566632285). He said that it squared with Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” and wanted nothing to do with “the kind of isolationism that then permeated American conservatism.” There you have the definition of neoconservatism: socialism and internationalism. Kristol went so far as to candidly admit, “I regard myself as lucky to have been a young Trotskyite and I have not a single bitter memory.” The partner of Lenin in communizing Russia, Trotsky later fell into disfavor for backing the slower route to deadly totalitarianism. If one accepts Kristol’s definition, and there is no reason not to do so, Trotsky was the first neoconservative.
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