, comprised mostly of clever liberal Jews and faux conservatives. It’s odd that such an event could be the catalyst for the creation an entire theology of grievance and outrage by the paleos. But pettiness, intellectual and personal, often drives politics. So, the more successful the neos became, the more bitter the paleos became. Pat Buchanan summarized not only the attitude but also the grace of the paleo “movement” when he wrote of the neos: “Like the fleas who conclude they are steering the dog, their relationship to the movement has always been parasitical.” Today, “paleoconservatism” has become the real “neoconservatism,” in that it is literally the newest form of conservatism out there, resembling very little the conservatism of William F. Buckley or Barry Goldwater or the rank-and-file of the Republican party. An even funnier irony is that in many respects paleoconservatism is more left wing than what we call neoconservatism. The reason this is funny is that so many self-described paleos view themselves as “further to the Right” than those they label neocons. But they need to explain why Pat Buchanan’s public policies sound so liberal. For example, Patrick Buchanan complains that “compassionate conservatism” was a rip-off of his “conservatism of the heart.” “I may charge him with plagiarism,” Buchanan declared. Buchanan now favors caps on executive salaries, expansion of Medicare benefits, and high trade barriers. He fumes about the excesses of Wall Street and the free market. He writes in The Great Betrayal: “Better the occasional sins of a government acting out of the spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” That could easily come from It Takes A Village. Indeed, Buchanan’s policies on immigration and culture and his support affirmative-action quotas for non-Jewish whites amount to what my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru calls “identity politics for white people.” As for the lefty under- and over-tones of his foreign policy, David Frum has dealt with that in detail too, http://www.tomsoutletsaleonlinecheap.com - toms shoes online . The opinions of the paleos matter if for no other reason than that they’ve largely been appropriated by the hard Left — Eric Alterman, Edward Said, The Nation — and increasingly by liberals like Michael Lind, Joshua Micah Marshall, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, and Paul Krugman who shape popular perception through the elite media. All of these writers harp on a repeated theme, a small group of mostly Jewish intellectuals are manipulating a conservative president, the Republican party, and the American people for the sake of Israel and an ideological crusade. They don’t all cite Trotsky’s “theory of permanent revolution,” but they all suggest the same thing. “What I fear is the neoconservatives,” Matthews told an audience at Brown University. “They want to fight the North Koreans again. Iran. Iraq. Syria. Libya.” Before long, “they’ll go after China.” Dowd: “Everyone thinks the Bush diplomacy on Iraq is a wreck. It isn’t. It’s a success because it was never meant to succeed.” Marshall: “Ever since the neocons burst upon the public policy scene 30 years ago, their movement has been a marriage of moral idealism, military assertiveness, and deception.” Eric Alterman writes, “the war has put Jews in the showcase as never before. Its primary intellectual architects — Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle…and Douglas J. Feith… — are all Jewish neoconservatives. So, too, are many of its prominent media cheerleaders, including William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, http://www.tomsoutletsaleonlinecheap.com - Toms Shoes Outlet Store Sale , and Marty Peretz. Joe Lieberman, the nation’s most conspicuous Jewish politician, has been an avid booster.” More Matthews, this time on Hardball: “Is there a neoconservative crowd operating within the Bush administration advancing the objectives of the neoconservative movement?” And: Why is President Bush “buying this neoconservative case for…war…This doesn’t seem like an American kind of foreign policy.” This isn’t much diffe
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