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And then there were two: Ron Paul and Rep. Jimmy Duncan?
Posted By katie allison granju
According to a blogger writing for the online magazine published by Taki Theodoracopulos, two of the four anti-war conservatives currently serving in Congress face potential election defeat:
There are only four dependably anti-war Republicans in Congress: Ron Paul, Walter Jones, John Duncan, and Wayne Gilchrest. Paul has won 10 successive congressional elections and will most likely have little trouble defending his seat. Representatives Gilchrest and Jones, on the other hand, are facing much more formidable primary challenges and each backed by much of the DC conservative establishment.
The 2008 election could thus result in conservative antiwar voices in Congress being cut in half. And in the case of Duncan, while he has amassed a strong and principled voting record, he is the least outspoken of the lot. This makes Gilchrest and Jones’s primaries of the utmost importance for traditional conservatives.
By the way, I got curious about this publication, and found this rather amusing description in the “About Us” section:
Why start this new online magazine? According to the just-turned-70 writer—who’s fit as a fiddle, and active in competitive martial arts—“I want to shake up the stodgy world of so-called ‘conservative’ opinion. For the past ten years at least, the conservative movement has been dominated by a bunch of pudgy, pasty-faced kids in bow-ties and blue blazers who spent their youths playing Risk in gothic dormitories, while sipping port and smoking their father’s stolen cigars. Thanks to the tragedy of September 11—and a compliant and dim-witted president—these kids got the chance to play Risk with real soldiers, with American soldiers. Patriotic men and women are dying over in Iraq for a war that was never in America’s interests. And now these spitball gunners, these chicken hawks, want to attack Iran—which is no threat to the U.S. at all. One thing I can tell you for sure, there may well be some atheists in foxholes—but you’ll never find a neocon. They prefer to send blue-collar kids out to die on their behalf, so they get to feel macho—and make up for all the times they got wedgies in prep school. It shall be our considered task to take on the chicken-hawks of this world, and give them wedgies again.”
Feb 6th, 2008
