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I was a little busy with “other things” on Friday night.  Someone told me (and yes, there was a St. Louisan who wasn’t watching baseball on Friday night), that the talk show host who sounds like Groucho Marx’s grandmother after a hysterectomy really laid into Ron Paul on Friday night, over RP’s not explicitly refusing to rule out an independent campaign for President, should he not win the Republican nomination.

First off, I don’t think he would run as an independent, because he made these same “non-barking dog” noises in 2008.  As he said four years ago, every election he has ever won in his life was won while running as a Republican, every time he has run on a third party, he hasn’t won.  Second, it’s a matter of pure common sense — If you can’t win a plurality of Republican voters in enough states to get enough delegates to win a nomination, you won’t have the ability to win the general election.  Third, the timing is PR clusterfuck – Rand should take dad aside and read him the Riot Act, reminding him that he can’t hint around an independent candidacy before any Republican primary or caucus has taken place – That might actually drive off a lot of his own loyal supporters into the hands of other Republican candidates or into not voting in the primaries or caucuses.

But then there’s the matter of the talk show host who sounds like Groucho Marx’s grandmother after a hysterectomy.  I have never met him, doubt I ever will.  But just through listening to him enough, I take him for a fink.  And by “fink,” I mean someone who would sell out the lamestream Reaganite conservatism he claims to support – I have to make that clear, because I’m not a Reaganite, and the talk show host in question isn’t a white nationalist much less a race realist like me, for sure.  When I say “fink” here, I mean selling out his own purported worldview.

What makes me suspicious is that he saves the worst of his vituperative for Ron Paul, even more vicious than the same for the neo-cons and RINOs he claims he hates so much.  Complicating matters is that he has no problem with Rand Paul, even having him as a guest on his show, and a guest on good terms.  I mean, if you read the talk show host’s political books, like Liberty and Tyranny and Men In Black, then you would easily walk away thinking that the author of those books would vote for Ron Paul, or at the very least not be so hostile.  You would also think that the author of such books would like Pat Buchanan, but on several occasions, the author/talk show host has publicly announced his distaste toward PJB.

While he probably is a geunine Reaganite, (again, disclaimer:  I’m not), I get the feeling that Mark Levin is really birddogging for another agenda.  I don’t think it’s the obvious — You might put all these pieces together, his hatred toward Ron Paul (but not Rand Paul) and PJB to come up with Israel, but I don’t think it’s that, because Levin isn’t really a big pro-Israel talking head, in fact, I think that he’s less intensely pro-Israel than the average Reaganite.  I think it’s something else, but something on which I can’t put my finger.  Now that I allow comments, I hope that someone can lead my finger to the right button.

One more thing — Levin hates the South, and hates white Southerners, and has openly stated as much.  Yet, he abandoned his own native Philadelphia for the Northern Virginia suburbs.  Why?  Answer:  Philadelphia in particular and Pennsylvania in general aren’t conservative enough anymore for Reaganism, so he had to go to greener grass.  (Even though Northern Virginia’s grass is becoming less green by the year, as far as that goes.)  He hates white Southerners so much, yet during blue wave election years, white Southerners are the only people that will vote for Republicans and lamestream conservatives, and only because of the racial headcount nature of electoral politics in the South.  His good friend Sean Hannity is the same way — Really doesn’t like white Southerners, (but he’s not as obvious as Levin about it, you have to pick up on context clues), but Hannity’s radio career started in Huntsville, Alabama then picked up steam in Atlanta.  Left to his native metropolitan area, New York City, he would have never gotten anywhere in broadcast media, because it’s too liberal even for his milquetoast brand of conservatism.  Methinks he doth shitteth where he eateth.

That said, Liberty and Tyranny is a unique effort, and very much worth reading, if you can overlook the foibles of the author, and the occasional brain fart within.  Men in Black is worth the time, but it’s not my favorite book about the abuses of the Judiciary.  Batting for the home team, that honor goes to Phyllis Schlafly’s The Supremacists.