This really is hilarious. Via Andrew Sullivan, here's uber-conservative John Podhoretz's take on Ron Paul:
But politics ain’t beanbag, and if he is getting donations from neo-Nazis that he won’t return in full, he and his supporters have to expect they are going to take lumps. And they have to take their lumps as well for echoing shameful voices of the past. The history of right-wing isolationism is that it has been a hotbed of classic and unambiguous anti-Semitism throughout the 20th century, as represented by leading-edge spokesmen from Henry Ford to Father Coughlin to Gerald K. Smith to the America First Committee.Non-interventionism was the term they preferred, and the fact that Paul echoes them is understandably unsettling to a lot of people.
So now we must apparently judge candidates not just by their own words and actions but also by those whom they "echo."
OK...
For over 30 years, the Republican party has built a majority coalition in large part through its "Southern Strategy." By very carefully appealing to the very same people who once supported pro-segregaton candidates like George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, Nixon, Reagan, and so many others who came after them were able to turn the South into a solid Republican block. They were, to use JPod's phrasing, "echoing" the overtly racist arguments of their predecessors. And thus, because "politics ain't beanbag," it is only fair that we conclude that Nixon, Reagan, and the entire Republican Party were and are racially intolerant.
I'm OK with that. Is JPod?
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