{"id":1151,"date":"2005-06-14T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/06\/hold_the_fries_lefties_are_not\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:19:45","slug":"hold_the_fries_lefties_are_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/06\/hold_the_fries_lefties_are_not.html","title":{"rendered":"HOLD THE FRIES, LEFTIES ARE NOT ALONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never thought I’d be glad to hear from a Goldwater Republican, much less agree with him. But
\nStraight Up reader M. Paulding has changed my mind. He writes in response to Battle of the Prewar Memos:<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\n

<\/P>
\n


\n

<\/A>The second DSM [Downing Street Memo] is more damning than the
\nfirst, despite Sanger’s observation. I’m a conservative, not a neoconservative. There is a BIG
\ndifference. And as a Goldwater Republican, I DEMAND an investigation of HOW and WHY the
\nidiots in the White House decided it was necessary to SQUANDER $208 billion of our money
\nand the finest army on earth.
\n

<\/P>
\n

Take my word for it, there are MORE DSMs coming, and what they [will] reveal is a bunch
\nof political whores on both sides of the Atlantic. They “packaged” this war and sold it to a
\ntrusting American public like a box of soap. Even Congressman “Freedom Fries”
\nJones<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> has now got the message. Remember him? He was pissed off because
\nthe French wouldn’t jump aboard Bush’s juggernaut three years ago. Now, he wants a timetable<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> to get
\nout of Iraq.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

Paulding also writes in reference to Frank, Rich, and Dandy, He Keeps on
\nTruckin’:<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/P>
\n


\n

Matt Lauer, et al, are poodles. They engage in fluff journalism and don’t even
\ncount. Frankly, I’d be surprised to learn that Matt Lauer even knows what Watergate was all
\nabout. I’m not a so-called lefty, but a conservative, and NOT a neoconservative. Colson, Liddy,
\nthat whole god-damned crowd tried to subvert the United States Constitution. They disgust me.
\nThe neoconservatives, who are really Straussians, are now attempting to do the same damned
\nthing. There must be an investigation to get to the bottom of this, and it must be done as soon as
\npracticable.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for either investigation (and I presume neither would
\nPaulding). But it’s grand to hear that righties are fed up, too. Some of them at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never thought I’d be glad to hear from a Goldwater Republican, much less agree with him. But Straight Up reader M. Paulding has changed my mind. He writes in response to Battle of the Prewar Memos: The second DSM [Downing Street Memo] is more damning than the first, despite Sanger’s observation. I’m a conservative, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}