Over at Takimag
FOX news this morning was full of good cheer about our latest victory over racism and its reporters were vibrating with good will (or else laughing gas) as they read Senator McCain’s concession remarks about how “we have overcome the prideful arrogance of bigotry.” So much for the neocons’ no longer even feigned dread of Obama’s presidency!
Now there is nothing unusual about the official Right’s movement toward the left being observed. Among neocons this shifting is standard procedure, as I learned from Daniel Bell, when he told me in a letter in 1986 about his tactics and those of his friends in the 1972 presidential race. Danny and Irving [Kristol, I guess] had “agreed” to take different sides in the Nixon-McGovern race, so that everyone in their group would come out on top. Neocons are always concerned about taking and keeping power, and if they like to foul other people’s nests as they move about, one has to be a fool or else in their pay not to observe this defining trait. In any case I don’t feel sorry for either the thoroughly compromised GOP or its adjunct conservative movement. Both deserved to have their nests fouled.
Paul Gottfried, please just come out and tell us how you feel about neocons. Stop pussyfooting around!
