Monday, July 14, 2014

VDARE - James Kirkpatrick: “Reform Conservatism”—Another Beltway Scam That Ducks Immigration, Race - "The conservative base is roiling with anger and looking for a leader. Unfortunately, the Beltway Right systematically perverts its energy into misguided and self-defeating paths. When credible leaders do emerge (like Pat Buchanan) they are sabotaged by a Conservative Establishment more interested in remaining acceptable to the New York Times than taking and exercising power."


“Reform Conservatism”—Another Beltway Scam That Ducks Immigration, Race

 We can do better than this

 Posing as the Founders for a magazine cover in itself makes them appear to be shallow frivolous people.

The Founding Fathers of Conservatism Inc.’s New America—Andrew Kelly, Adam White, Scott Winship, James Pethokoukis, Yuval Levin, Kate O’Beirne, W. Bradford Wilcox, Peter Wehner; seated, from left, Michael R. Strain, April Ponnuru and Ramesh Ponnuru—deliberately staged to echo Ferris’ painting “Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776.” [About that photo of the ‘Reformicons,’ by Monica Torres, New York Times, July 9, 2014]
“Reform Conservatism” is the latest scam coming out of a Conservatism Inc. frantic to change the conversation away from theCamp of the Saints on the Southern border. Having failed to force an Amnesty/Immigration Surge down the throats of the conservative base after the 2012 election, some self-appointed leaders are now feigning interest in “middle class” voters, meaning those members of the historic American nation who stayed home rather than vote for Mitt Romney. But the “Reform Conservatives’” real object: securing their own (subordinate) place in the Ruling lass—epitomized by an adoring cover story (right) in the New York Times Magazine by long-timeconservative-smearer Sam Tanenhaus [Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas?, July 2, 2014]. Fatally, neither the “Reform Conservatives” nor Tanenhaus’ article mention the dread word “immigration.” . . .
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