Long tribute to Buckley at Red State that I found pretty amusing, because if Buckley had said some of the things in the comments section at Red State that he had said publicly (like, for example, Bush should resign he is such a failure, or that the Iraq War was a failure, or that the Bush White House was criminal in regards to the Plame affair), Moe Lane would have banned him without giving it a second thought.
At any rate, now that conservatism really is dead, we need a new name for the remnants. Freeperism was suggested. Wingnuttism?
calipygian
Cheetovoria
Keith
Hystericism
maxbaer (not the original)
Can we just call it dogshit?
4tehlulz
Permanent Adolescence
neal peart
“ignorant radicalism” anyone
calipygian
The Code of Bushido.
Cantservatism.
Malkinism.
Brawndo. (Its got what plants want.)
demimondian
“The future of America’s political system”.
Zifnab
DemocratsAreWorseism?
ImNotARacistism?
Wetsuitism?
cleek
Republicanism
Rovism
Bubblegum Tate
Idiocracism
John S.
Let’s just call it what it is…
Authoritarianism.
Although, apparently I myself belong to this sect. Amirite, demi?
DrDave
Militant indifferent obstinance
calipygian
Oh. Cheetovoria should have an accent mark over the “i”. Like Santoria, only delusional.
John S.
Like so?
Cheetovoría
calipygian
Thats good. How do you do that? Short of getting a Spanish or Czech keyboard that is.
demimondian
Yup.
binzinerator
Bushism.
I know, that’s not a new one.
Some have known for quite a while a maggot was eating its way through Buckley’s magnum opus leaving only the dustjacket intact. It ought to be named after the President who did so much to encourage the maggot to emerge far enough for many to finally see it for what it was.
calipygian
Bill helped liberate Prague.
Tim
Catostrophic Nicompooperism
demimondian
I prefer Bush-I-do, or perhaps even bushie-doo.
Tim F.
Neoteny.
scav
Over.
Please.
Porco Rosso
Howzabout Conservatology?
PaulW
to let you know, Buddy Miles passed away as well today.
Guess Buckley needed percussion.
DougJ
Blogs4Brownbackism
DougJ
Countertop analysis
demimondian
Iscamofascism
Z
Limbatomism
John S.
Just go to:
Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map
Choose a standard font like Arial, and then look for the special character you want. Select it and then copy it and paste it into the comment. That’s it.
As an authoritarian, I can safely tell you that I know how to do this because I am the α and the Ω.
Jake
Bushkkake?
The only other name would be a sound. The sound of a cranky toddler.
Jake
ωθψ!
Martin
Islamofasciphobiaism
But I must give the nod to John S for being depressingly accurate with Authoritarianism. There is no 2nd place on that one.
chopper
apoplexia nervosa.
p.a.
I like it.
This too, but a bit too long. Absolutely not “Bushism” or its variants; he’s already being read out of the club in preparation for 2008 going badly. Atrios (if he originated the idea) got it right. Conservatism is whatever conservatives say it is at the time. Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed by its followers- by not being conservative enough. The ideology is flawless. Flaws are the result of imperfect understanding by individuals- noncapitalist roaders as it were, who require intensive self-examination and re-education to allow reintegration into the good graces of the whole.
How about: Cloud-koo-koo-land-ians? -land-iacs? Too long…
calipygian
Cool! Boobs, a boob and a butt crack! Windows rocks!
srv
Flufferism
Schiavoism
Saudi Americanism
But Bushism should prevail. It should be immortilized.
When politics comes up in any conversation, I refer to any Republican I know/meet as a “Bushlover”. Many actually find this offensive. I intend to offend them until the day I die.
Martin
Wow, the ancient Greeks had Windows? Impressive.
Tsulagi
I made up retardocon and used that for a while. Whenever thinking of people like Kristol, Hannity, Malkin, Bush, etc. how can you not immediately think of retarded and joke? They’re like a no-substance stupid version of Idiocracy.
chopper
whahappen?ism. like wahhabism, but they’re all looking around at the smouldering char of what’s left of the economy going ‘wha happen?’
Dave Pooser
Royalism.
cleek
Idolatry
srv
Lapelpinism
I like that. It summarizes them in so many ways.
CaseyL
“The festering appendix of the American political system” – hmmph. Probably too long.
“Deadenders” is nice: short and to the point.
NickM
I call them “the Movementarians.” But “assholes” works, too.
Jay C
Idiolatry/Idiolatrism?
Ǻńď Ұëãħ̣̣-̣ ČнǎŗâçŧěŔ Μάρ яΩĉķš ¡
jcricket
Authoritarianism
Fraidy-catism
Allfearandnogoverningmakesmypartystupid-ism?
There-is-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch-we-swear-ism?
libarbarian
100%-Correctism?
Love it – perfect for the wingnut circle-jerks that happen whenever they think they spot a “phony” picture or anecdote, or in some other way strut around feeling like their biases have been vindicated.
Krista
ArmaDildos.
They like arms. They evidently like their dildos. And when confronted with a threat, whether real or imagined, they curl up into a little ball.
And pretty soon, they’re gonna be roadkill.
DougJ
Bushkkake wins.
Asti
Buckleyitisn’t
LITBMueller
Delusionism
Asti
Toss my vote to Tim F. Neoteny is perfect, considering it even has an evolution component. ;)
Brachiator
Ins-Hannity
ThymeZone
It was originally called “individualism” if I remember correctly, before the Goldwaterites popularized the term “Conservative.”
I think the important thing to remember is that the whole thing, from its inception after WWII, was a scam, a marketing tool more than a coherent worldview. It seems to me that the worldview and its intellectual basis was just furniture to be rearranged as necessary to attract and hold converts.
NYT said this about Buckley when Goldwater died:
The whole schtick of the so-called conservative moment was to complicate good old fashioned populism, to pose the power-seekers as crusaders against government and for the little guy.
Total crock of shit from the get-go.
Randy G
Fecism. (Everything they touch turns to shit.)
SamFromUtah
“Freedom Fries Jingoism” is a bit long, but that idiocy deserves to be mentioned.
ThymeZone
I left out of my previous post the comment that one has to sort of overlook the fact that Goldwater got a shockingly low vote total (38%) in his presidential bid in 1964. At that point he became a footnote to the history of Johnson’s war and the civil rights movement.
That phase dissolved into Nixon’s era of Peace With Honor, which exterminated very large numbers of people and split the country in a wave of divisiveness from which it has not yet recovered.
But to call Goldwater the big deal of the 60’s is just preposterous. Only an ego the size of Buckley’s could come up with a malapropism that grotesque.
ThymeZone
Yes, great ideas like Government Doesn’t Work, and Perpetual War is Peace, and Trickle Down Economics.
SGEW
The problem with “Authoritarianism” is that it isn’t nearly specific enough (time/place wise). 21st Century American Authoritarianism isn’t quite catchy enough. “Bushkkake” is a little, um, NSFW for general usage.
And “Neoteny” is an insult to the completely respectable Proteus Anguinus (the Human Fish need not concern itself with mere political labels).
Rovism? Late Republicanism? 9/11ists?
ThymeZone
Conservatism started to unravel when it became, at the same time, for “small government” in terms of services to citizens, but for big government in terms of defense, military spending, and enforcement of moral/religious authority. It was an unstable amalgam of convenience, which never had a chance of holding together a long term and successful coalition. The intellectual problems and cognitive dissonance of it all made it too weak.
The most obvious sign of its demise right now is the pending nomiation of a non-conservative to the top position in the GOP. The “conservatives” really don’t like McCain. He isn’t one of them, and we may be seeing the last “conservative” in that slot for a while.
AnneLaurie
Reichtards. Or fRightwingers.
jake
Brown Squirts.
slippytoad
The remnants of Conservatism, bereft of any veneer of respectability, are an amalgam of greed, racism, and the kind of bone-crushingly stupid tribalism that drives college sports team rivalries.
It’s everything that’s despicable about human behavior wrapped up into one festering turd of a package. Buckley put polysyllabic words in front of it but it was really just an excuse to do what felt good and was dumb and easy. Lazy.
SamFromUtah
Brown Squirts.
I think I’ve seen “Brownshorts” somewhere. Hehehehe.
cbear
Dickism.
Digital Amish
Neo-Oceanists
JGabriel
John Cole: “At any rate, now that conservatism really is dead, we need a new name for the remnants. Freeperism was suggested. Wingnuttism?”
A bit late to the party, but may I suggest (if it hasn’t been suggested already): Mainstream Republicanism ™.
tBone
Cheeto-cons.
Dildocrocrats.
Wasteojism.
Pb
RICO-ism
FYIGM-ism
Plutocratism
Kakistocratism
Traitorism (see also: party over country)
JGabriel
P.A.: “Atrios (if he originated the idea) got it right. Conservatism is whatever conservatives say it is at the time. Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed by its followers…”
It was Rick Perlstein, actually. Though I seem to remember Rick acknowledging that the idea wasn’t original to him, either. Nonetheless, he’s the source for all of the netroots references you see now.
Sinister eyebrow
Dingleberry-ites
Hystericons
WTABism (Whiny Ass Titty Babys plus, er, ism)
Cheneytarians
The Napalm Grizzlies (more fun to say than shitheads, although Brown Squirts is pretty damn entertaining)
Civilized Crank
Conservatism is an instinct, not an ideology. A small c conservative must always be willing to challenge their own assumptions; big c Conservatism challenges nothing except the ideology of the other side.
Once it became an ideology, it became something else: Moral authoritarianism.
Cain
stallatapsism
cain
canuckistani
I’d suggest fascism but that one is already taken by liberals.
Thepanzer
Burt tribalism.
Anarch
It was Rick Perlstein, actually. Though I seem to remember Rick acknowledging that the idea wasn’t original to him, either. Nonetheless, he’s the source for all of the netroots references you see now.
Pretty sure it was Digby over at Hullabaloo.
Asti
fixed!
schooner
Dumbfuckery has a nice ring to it.
Enlightened Layperson
Fearmongering.
Paranoia is patriotic.
Tax Analyst
We-do-what-we-fucking-want-and-call-it ‘Conservatism’. Then we impugn the integrity of anyone who notices we’re full of bullshit.
Well, it’s too long and not all that catchy, but WTF.
Conservatively Liberal
Church of Wingnutology, also known as the GOP (Grumpy Old Pervs)
I love how they gloss over Buckley’s comments as noted here. One commenter at Redstate discovered that Buckley was for marijuana law reforms. He said that he would need to reconsider his stance on it in light of this discovery. What an idiot.
Reagan and Buckley would have been blammed if they posted at Redstate under any other name. We all know that. Selective memory seems to be a common malady on the right. The Republican party is a sad parody of what they once were. The sad thing is that the Democrats are the lesser evil instead of the better party.
If Obama wins, I hope the party dynamic changes. More to hope for, but anything is better than the status quo.
vivelame
did you see this?
Teh plot thickens!
jake
No, but this thread’s SGUR (Spurious Gossip & Unsubstantiated Rumor) Index just shot up 78%.
kthxbai!
Shygetz
Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Tom
Just keep calling it pedophilia over and over again until it sticks. Then set fire to it and leave it on Karl Rove’s front porch.
Namekarb
Uber-Conservatives
binzinerator
Blivetism.
Because everything they do and say is 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound sack.