On the few occasions that I’ve listened to Marc Levin (“The Great One,” according to Rush Limbaugh) on his radio show he’s been literally screaming, yelling, whining, and generally behaving like a lunatic. Tonight was no different. I turned on the car radio and there was Levin, screaming at the top of his lungs that he would never, ever vote for an “interloper” like Ron Paul, who he said was a fake Republican.

Let’s see now. Ron Paul was first elected to the U.S. Congress as a Republican in the late 1970s and was endorsed by Ronald Reagan, who he supported. He’s still in Congress. Marc Levin, on the other hand, has never been elected to anything by anyone. Rich and politically-connected neocons gave him his radio gig. It was his neocon pals who infiltrated the Reagan administration and are the true interlopers. It is they who were all Democrats who were (and are) fully on board with the welfare state in particular and Big Government in general, and only became Republicans because they wanted a much larger warfare state to go along with an exploding welfare state. There was never anything “conservative” about any of them, especially the self-described “godfather” of neoconservatism, the late Irving Kristol. Kristol once wrote in his son’s tabloid, The Weekly Standard, that the only reason the neocons supported Reaganomics was that they understood that a world empire required a boatload of money to finance it. Freedom, Shreedom was their motto. In the same article Kristol ridiculed and smeared F.A. Hayek for his genuinely conservative, limited government views as expressed in some of his writings (Although Hayek was more of a social democrat than a libertarian).

Levin laughingly claims that he is a conservative because he is a “constitutionalist,” although he supported his neocon comrades’ evisceration of the Constitution during the Bush administration. What a moron.

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