Joe Scar: "John Boltons appointment is a fitting coda to conservatisms failures"

[apnu]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/03/23/john-boltons-appointment-is-a-fitting-coda-to-conservatisms-failures/?utm_term=.cf86e26b4d24

by Joe Scarborough
March 23 at 12:19 AM

First three paragraphs:

One hundred years ago this week, the founder of modern American conservatism was born into poverty in Plymouth, Mich. Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind,” published in 1953, laid the foundations of a modern conservative movement that dominated the second half of the American Century. But 65 years later, Kirk’s classic work reads instead as a damning indictment against the very movement he helped launch.

The central thesis of Kirk’s philosophy was that “the conservative abhors all forms of ideology” and subscribes to principles “arrived at by convention and compromise” instead of “fanatic ideological dogmata.” Six decades of Republican overreach and corrosive causes have instead led to the rise of Donald Trump and a foreign policy run by John Bolton, an economy guided by Larry Kudlow and a legal team led by conspiracy theorist Joseph DiGenova.

Bolton’s elevation to the position of national security adviser is a fitting coda for a movement whose adherents spent decades throwing themselves on an endless array of ideological barricades while vilifying opponents whose responses to Soviet Russia or Islamic fundamentalism were deemed insufficiently harsh. Bolton’s selection will not disappoint these same GOP militants whom Kirk battled until his death in 1994. Trump’s third national security adviser in 14 months has called for the preemptive bombing of North Korea and Iran, while defending his role in the worst U.S. foreign policy disaster since Vietnam. Of the United States’ military misadventure in Iraq, Bolton pleads innocence on all counts while shamelessly calling Barack Obama’s 2011 decision to bring U.S. troops home “the worst decision” made in that debacle.

What do you think DU? Joe Scar is laying into his own party and his own political movement.

[meadowlark5]

1. I don't think Joe Scar's republican party exists anymore

The republican party of even the time of Ronald Reagan is barely recognizable today.

[apnu]

3. Indeed.

The GOP is the party of yahoos and ignorants.

As far as I can tell, the GOP purged its intelligentsia during W's years. What we have now in the Republican party is the obvious result.

[maxrandb]

2. Funny Joe

Some would call it the "Obvious Conclusion" of the CONservative movement, not a Coda to it's failure.

BTW Joe - Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition, Hard Cover copy of Atlas Shrugged, you worthless piece of amphibian shit!!

You OWN this Retrumplican Party!

You helped "build" this Retrumplican Party!

You helped normalize this Donnie Short Fingers shitstain!

Take the advice of the monster you created...and GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!

[hatrack]

4. With lots of help and free airtime from you, fuckstick

.

[meadowlark5]

6. I think that about a lot of the talking heads

Andrea Mitchell harped on Hillary's emails almost daily. The disdain Chris Matthews had for the Clintons showed when he did his show during the presidential campaign.

Matthews especially seems horrified and disgusted by Trump and the corruption. And I think every time - "you certainly did your part in electing him".

[pwb]

5. This is the same Bolton who chickened out of his chance to serve in Nam?

Another tough guy who is all talk no action.