Perfection or Destruction

Posted by: Ion | March 20th, 2007 · 11:06 AM

If you’re a Republican, you’ve doubtlessly been enjoying the schadenfreude spectacle of fractures that has manifested over Iraq within the new Democratic majority in congress. But don’t get too comfortable with your grin, as there is some cause for concern that similar problems may await us in the near future.

Basil Harrington reports that something called the ‘’Conservative Exodus Project,'’ an anti-neoconservative Republican group, was established following CPAC out of frustration with the Three Amigos. It represents a concord between the normally antagonistic libertarian and nationalist wings of the party. Their notion is that if the eventual presidential nominee of the Republican Party isn’t anti-immigration and isolationist (i.e., if it isn’t Ron Paul or Duncan Hunter), they are going to to go into revolt and advocate the departure of Republicans to some irrelevant third party. And no, Thompson’s views on immigration, Iraq and free trade will not placate them at all.

CEP’s manifesto lays out five points of compliance that must be met by a candidate, lest they bolt the party in 2008:

(1) We oppose the third-world invasion of the United States, and reject amnesty and any path to citizenship for illegals. We support deportation, attrition, and massive reductions in legal immigration, especially from the third world.
(2) We oppose free trade, the support of which has become an ideological suicide pact. Free trade is both destroying our economy and undermining our sovereignty. Historically, conservatives have opposed free trade, and they should, but many in the GOP have been “neoconned” on this issue.
(3) We support a moral candidate, critical of secularism, who embodies the virtues of the Christian Western tradition.
(4) We oppose the illegal neocon war in Iraq. The transformation of the Middle East to liberal democracy is Jacobin, not conservative.
(5) We wish to see big government reduced in size - in all three branches - and for many offices and functions to be returned to the states, where they Constitutionally belong.
(CEP)

By combining these two wings of th GOP, we’re probably talking about perhaps 10-15% of the GOP at most. But given the reduced market appeal of the Republican Party among independents following the many missteps of the Bush Administration, such a loss is more than sufficient to lose an election to the Democrats. In a market where you have a damaged brand with new buyers, you must count on your preexisting customers to sustain you.

Of course, why these absolutists suspect they’ll get a better society from the empowerment of the advocates of open borders, atheism and bureaucratic statism, is anyone’s guess.

However, historically, political unifications between previously opposed ideologies always unleash powerful political consequences if they are permitted to gain a foothold. For example, some of the more unusual and profound have been the unification of nationalism and socialism that produced fascism and the unification of commercial mercantilism and Christian evangelism that created European imperialism. Whenever such unifications occur, one should be wary if they support an established political philosophy.

This one has been sneaking up on us for awhile. It’s increasingly difficult to distinguish the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan, Michael Badnarik, Lou Dobbs and Ron Paul from each other, as representing different schools of political philosophy. That’s a very recent phenomenon and it bodes ill for the GOP.

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Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood II: CFRed and the Globalist Conspiracy at Blog P.I., July 24th, 2007 at 7:00 pm:

• […] Corsi is also known for promoting the theory that President Bush is pushing for a single North American state much like the one imagined in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” (albeit with fewer Quebecois wheelchair assassins, one presumes.) As PostPolitical puts it, Of course, why these absolutists suspect they’ll get a better society from the empowerment of the advocates of open borders, atheism and bureaucratic statism, is anyone’s guess. … This one has been sneaking up on us for awhile. It’s increasingly difficult to distinguish the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan, Michael Badnarik, Lou Dobbs and Ron Paul from each other, as representing different schools of political philosophy. That’s a very recent phenomenon and it bodes ill for the GOP. […]

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