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Robert Stacy McCain and the Fall of the Conservative Movement

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Athos10/15/2009 10:08:32 am PDT

re: #325 laZardo

Exactly. As this mass grows and the Center and Left get word of it, I’m hoping there’ll be a reaction that will shunt people like them out of the political scene (even if in two parts, ‘10 and ‘12) and realign America to a more focused direction.

Why wait - the center / center-right should be already working to return these fringe elements to the fringe where they belong just as William Buckley worked so hard in the ‘60’s to ensure the Birchers were relegated to the outer fringe where they belonged. Many people then fought to keep the Birchers in place in conservativism because of their strident anti-communism - but the odious nature of their other beliefs did far more damage to the conservative cause than their anti-communism. People realized then that communism could be opposed without selling out our core values (by accepting the Birchers), and its beyond time the center and center-right realizes this about the modern day Birchers, Birthers, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, and conspiracy mongers.