re: #286 Killgore Trout

I think what’s happening is the the whole neo-con post 9-11 thing is over with. Conservatives (like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Tea Party movement, etc) are ditching the neo-cons in favor of the Libertarians. That’s why Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, and their fellow travelers like Alex Jones, Stormfront, Birch Society are so active these days. The transformation is not complete but it seems that this is the direction they’re headed.

Conservatism doesn’t really have much to put out front and center at this point after getting stuck with the credit crisis and 8 years of war. The Ron Pauls of the world fit right into voids like this.