Scott Galupo posted this commentary at The American Conservative on the Free and Equal third party debate:
From my vantage point, via YouTube on the morning after, the third-party presidential debate, held in a darkly-lit subterranean Chicago hotel ballroom and moderated by the pterosaur Larry King and a not-ready-for-primetime Christina Tobin of the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, gave off the vibe of an annual corporate sales meeting.
But there sure wasn’t a lot of love in the room for corporations. Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson, of the Green Party and Justice Party respectively, gave voice to the kind of anti-plutocrat rhetoric that leftists long to hear from the Clinton-Obama-era Democratic Party. Balancing Stein and Anderson’s unapologetic social justice rhetoric were Constitution Party contender Virgil Goode and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, the former two-term New Mexico governor.
I wish the IPR link included the comments posted on the American Conservative web page. They are very good.
American Conservative magazine was founded some years ago with the support of Pat Buchanan and other paleo-cons.
American Conservative writers are antiwar and many art libertarian. Except for Pat Buchanan, no notable writer at AmConMag is supporting Mitt Romney, and they have written favorably of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.
Don’t be fooled by the name.
“He’s an American “Republican” Conservative, that seems certain.”
He’s not a run-0f-the-mill Republican. Like all the writers at TAC, he is critical of mainstream conservatives.
I don’t think he’s an idiot, though he’ll probably dress up as one for Halloween. He’s an American “Republican” Conservative, that seems certain.
Apparently the link is to a magazine called The American Conservative, for anyone who didn’t click on it.
Who is that idiot?