Ace, the Communists for Kerry website people might fit in with that "MetroCon" sort of tag. They're in NYC afterall.

Spot on. Yet familiar.

Do I remember that post simply because I'm referred to therein as "the Great Allah"?

I'll never tell.

The really, really cool conservatives call themselves "Yorl-Cons".

I am an "old fart" conservative. You reckon there's any more like me out there'

I really, really hate broadcasters who call him "conservative columnist" Andrew Sullivan

What's wrong with being a JerkyCon?

Acey, I don't care what subspecies you are in as long as I can do the secret dirty handshake on you when you show up at my clubhouse.

Hunka-Hunka Burnin' Con

Wait... She's blogging again? Whatever happened to the 'blogging in drag' masterplan?

I don't know why anyone would be surprised that Sullivan would try to redefine conservatism to better suit him. He's a Catholic and has been trying to redefine Catholicism to suit his proudly homosexual lifestyle. It's just what he does.

Anyway, it seems to me that the main problem with these "____ Con" things is that they usually (e.g. Murtha-loving Dreher) translate to "Not Conservative".

I consider myself a South Park Conservative. If you don't like that then screw you guys... I'm goin' home.

C.S. Lewis actually referred to this mindset in one of his essays (though I don't recall which)--in the context of religious belief, of course. The person in question doesn't so much hold a consistent set of beliefs, as a consistent position relative to whatever group of people happen to be in his company at the time. (Always 'slightly higher' in his own estimation, of course.)

Among the devout, he counts himself the only one intellectually curious enough to have doubts, or broad-minded enough to also be conversant with secular culture and the material world.

Among the materialists and skeptics, on the other hand, he considers himself equally superior because, of course, he has a spiritual sensitivity, a devotion, and a 'higher life' that they lack.

Hence, I'm sure Andrew Sullivan makes himself just as insufferable at a liberal cocktail party as he does in the conservative blogosphere.

I'm a Futurama Consverative. No idea what that means, but it sounds cool.

I'm with Biff Boff, I became a Republican because someone promised me cake and pie.

Where is the cake and pie?

Cocksman Conservative here.

"[A]dolescent narcissism." Perfect! That is Sully to a T. One of these days he will stop trying to justify his homosexuality and actually say some interesting things. Or his dementia will progress and he will lose readers. He lost me a few months ago.

Actually Ace, I *do* have a cutesy name for my brand of conservatism:

I'm a Cthulucon (Lovecrafticon?).

Hey, if we're going to conserve anything, it oughta be eons-old undying evil from beyond the stars, don't ya think?

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Damn, that's Cthulhucon. I hate that f'ing extra h.

Oh well, I just hope I didn't peeve off my Master with my insult.

I guess I'm a Dwindle-Con.

My respect for the conservative party has just about dwindled away. Isn't it time for a true libertarian movement to restore this nation to adherence of the constitution? To restore limited government and states rights? To reverse this disgusting and constitutionally illegal leviathan of a federal government?

Hopeless under the current 2-party system. The parties are basically identical except when it comes to God and abortion. Pathetic.

The same usually applies to all "end of days" scenarios, be it Peak Oil, the Rapture, Socialist Utopia, Redneck Survivalism, all seem to have in common the fact that they stroke the adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasies of whoever trumpets them, and promise sweet retribution against whoever made fun of them in gym class.

When I was in 5th grade, my friends and I had a club called the Wolverines (named, naturally, for the resistance fighters in the movie Red Dawn).

As such, I'm officialy declaring myself a "Wolverine-con." Obviously, all other -cons such balls in comparison to Wolverine cons. Membership is open, for now, so don't miss your chance to not suck balls!

metrocons just anew relation to the decepticons AUTOBOTS TRANSFORM AND MOVE OUT

My respect for the conservative party has just about dwindled away. Isn't it time for a true libertarian movement to restore this nation to adherence of the constitution? To restore limited government and states rights? To reverse this disgusting and constitutionally illegal leviathan of a federal government?

The only way a strong libertarian movement will arise is if they knock off that crap about legalizing all drugs. They lose too many people with that platform, and they've made it their own "If nothing else, we will accomplish this" issue, and no one wants to get behind it.

Is Andrew Sullivan even still around?

Andrew Sullivan - conjob

As the traditional cons have argued in other contexts, many neo cons of whatever stripe are not really conservative except on a few issues. So they really are different. That said, I do think that some of the impulse is to establish that the person has some conservative views but is not a country club republican or a religious right conservative.

BTW weren't you embracing the term/phenom "South Park Conservatives" not too long ago?

I resent those comments about Andrew Sullivan. Perhaps Andrew Sullivan is a bit vain, even somewhat emotional at times. But it fills Andrew Sullivan with heart-ache to no end to see what our president has done to the conservative movement.

Andrew Sullivan is going to take a three month sabattical to write a book about my kind of conservatism: brilliant, cunning, witty, sexy conservatism. I'll call is BCWSC. I think it shall catch on.

That 3rd person shit is priceless Sully...

surf-actant

I'm a Suburdacon, or maybe a Retrocon, or maybe a Tennessecon.

shooty-con

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