re: 407

A more accurate statement might be “Nobody should initiate the aggressive use of force against anyone else” while carefully noting that self-defense is a whole different ball-game wherein hitting, lacerating, and perforating are perfectly legitimate means of discouraging assailants.

More generally, though, the tone that seemed to equate paleocons to racists as a class, seemed regrettable, at best.

While some racists (aka bastards) may claim to be Paleocons, Paleocon =/= racist, as a class. Add to that, that the term racism has been so over-used to describe *disliked, but not necessarily race-based* behavior as to have lost much of its’ meaning beyond that of a bogey-man to bash the badly behaving with.

Buchanan and his ilk have stepped outside the conservative paradigm entirely, into an entirely new realm - “blazing nut case”.