Havin' settled my score with Tony Surace, I now turn my attenshun to John Andrews and his "Backbone" America
"Backbone" my cracker arse. John Andrews 'n his crew of unread teenage bloggers are th' laughingstock of Colorado "conservative" blogdum. Or shud be anyway. Not ohnly because he's drawin' ohn the most inarticulate kind of blogger in many instances, but also because neither he nor any of his philosofically immature bloggin' crew have any real "backbone." Allow ol' Jones t' explain why:
When I started postin' commints at some of his little fellers' blog entries, I noted that it wud take forever to git my commints accepted, and in some cases ohnly whin I protested privately that they were ignorin' me. Thin I posted some stuff at one of Andrew's blog entries, and agin I ran into th' same damn thang, so I wrote Andrews privately asking if'n he wuz gonna accept my commints. Here's his e-mailed response:
Dear Snaggle - I am happy to post your comments, and if our readers choose to engage you in further dialogue, that's up to them. My time does not permit extended back and forth with folks, and frankly I'm left cold by the Dogpatch pseudonym and patois you've adopted. Let me have your real name and town, give me a few lines of serious argument about what conservatives should be doing, and we can have a conversation.
T' which I responded:
Fair enuf. Thanks fir at least acceptin' my commints (SJ - to one, and only one, blog entry of one of his little fellers). Att's-a step in th'rite die-rekshun.
As far as my response t' yir blogger wuz concerned,well, att argumint wuz ded serious, as evidenced in part by my references t' arthurs such as Scotchie 'n Weaver.
You have heard of Weaver, ain't ye? Chonicles? The American Conservative? 'N suchlike? 'N you do understaind that conservatism antee-dates Reagan, don't ye?
(Switchin' off Dogpatch patois, fir the time bein'.)
I would think, Mr. Andrews, given the dire straits in which the Republican party now finds itself with the latest two drubbings, you'd understand that a call to the conservative past indeed constitutes "serious argument about what conservatives should be doing." I don't know whether or not you've chosen to lower yourself to peruse, say, The American Conservative, but you really should. The recent issues of that mag have absolutely laid bare the pathologies of your precious neoconservatism. You can either engage those criticisms or not. Your choice. I would think you'd welcome the opportunity, if indeed "backbone" is your claim to fame, whether or not the criticism comes from the pages of erudite journals such as TAC and Chronicles or whether couched in the schtick I employ. If it helps at all, try to understand that what I intend to convey, both though my blog and in comments to "conservative" blogs in Colorado such as yours and as aggregated at the Rocky Mountian Alliance, is nothing more than the ideology described here. [/Yankee tawk]
Yir obedient servint,
S. Jones
His respohnse:
Sir, I run an open forum for those who will participate openly. I've told you that but you prefer to continue this tedious game. Find someone else to play with.
To which I replied:
Fair enuf. I giss yir one a-them fellers who don't git why some of th' Foundin' Fathers and Framers wrote under pseudonyms. But I actually expected such a response from ye, cuz I dohn't thank my writin' under a pseudonym is th' real issur. Yir inability to ainswer criticisms from a paleoconservative is th' real issur. Look for my blog comment about "Backbone" America in the days ahead.
'N pass ohn ol' Jones' regards t' yir frinds at Claremont.
He respohnded:
Tell Ken Smith hello for me.
To which I reacted - ??? - 'n thin' sent ohn-iss reply:
Oh, I'll be sure to tell him, John (not knowin' exactly WHAT the hell he wuz tawkin' 'bout, but more thin happy, nevertheless, t' leave him in his delusion).
Mr. John "Backbone" Andrews then proceeded to delete all my pending comments at his blog. Because he's a cowardly no-account.
'N the ironic thang is, I was part of his "Elect Andrews" team back when he ran fir guvner of Colorader way back when. Shook his haind once at one his fancy GOP git-togethers. But that wuz lohng before I saw th' light.
I thank th' God of Davis, Lee 'n Jackson that I finally, at lohng last, saw through the pathologies of th' likes of John Andrews, his pseudo-intellectual Jaffian think tank, 'n th' neocon ideology that has been so mindlessly embraced by his staff of underdeveloped, half-educated bloggers. My hope and prayer is that some of his benighted follerers will find they way out of that bankrupt "conservatism" in name only.
S. Jones
Snaggle-Tooth Jones
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I actually believe that John Andrews is a good and decent man. He, like so many other decent folk, North, South (and West) has been taken in by the nouveau-right; and to believe as we do is, in their minds, "unpatriotic".
I also think it is GOOD that he deleted your posts. What that means is you are shaking him up. I would not be surprised if he was wrestling with these issues within himself. And if not, at least you are advancing our Cause!
'L, att's one way t' look at it, I giss. I know from my interactions with some Colorader bloggers they are-a startin' t' lissen t' th' argumint that real conservatism predates th' Reagan revolution. That we oughta start lissnin' t' them ol' giants ohn whose shoulders we staind. Giants like Goldwater, and Taft, and Calhoun, and Jefferson. 'N like th' Christian thinkers of Christendom, Catholic 'n Protestant alike, all of whom wud be horrified to find Christians today believin' some of th' political tommyrot they do.
Conservatives, per the rightist "icon" Bill Buckley, are supposed t' "stand athwart history" and yell "Stop!". It's ohnly th' ol' Southern conservative who is still willin' t' do it. Buckley gave up ohn it not too long aifter he made that commint, pavin' the way for th' morphin of his conservatism into God knows wut. But the voices of the Old Right still speak, if'n ohnly folks will lissen.