Men With Guns Are Also Active Elsewhere.

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, because what the GOP needs is moar anti-intullektualist candidates.

[derspiess]

Yessir.

[Razgovory]

Dont worry, Jake, the collective mouthbreathers of Dumbfuckistan Nation will find another "hero", just like Bundy, and George Zimmerman before him, and on and on, never mind the little details.

Joe the Plumber is probably rested up for a second go.

He's in the UAW now.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, I don't think it's fair to claim Cliven Bundy as a spokesperson for "modern Conservatism".

Agreed, though I do think that the people who see Bundy as a spokesperson and cause celebre would identify their cause as "true Conservatism" or some such. That, of course, does not mean it actually is, and I certainly don't think the brand of Conservatism you espouse has much in common with Bundy and his merry band.

That said, whatever Conservative politicians and pundits who made utterances sympathetic to Bundy do contribute to the claims that he represent some form of Conservatism, and one they support in some manner. I expect there'll be fewer of them - the repudiations have already begun - since Bundy starting philosophizing about Negros being better off as slaves in public.

I suspect there are plenty of conservatives who sympathize with the slavery thing as well, they are just prevented from saying so by the tyranny of, "political correctness".

[MadImmortalMan]

I really don't think so. More likely Bundy is just going senile.

[derspiess]

He's in the UAW now.

[Razgovory]

I really don't think so. More likely Bundy is just going senile.

I don't think those are mutually exclusive.  Something like 25% of public thought the South was right.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12/civil-war-still-divides-americans/

[Caliga]

Yeah, I don't think it's fair to claim Cliven Bundy as a spokesperson for "modern Conservatism".

Anybody else picturing Al Bundy every time this guy's being discussed? 

King King Bundy over here.

[CountDeMoney]

He's in the UAW now.

So he parleyed 15 minutes of fame into 20 years of security from the auto bailout

[Razgovory]

I imagine he can still play a businessman on TV.

[Tonitrus]

Eh, why does the DoD own part of the Missouri River...? 

Probably Army Corp of Engineers and related to flood control.

[Syt]

Well, a least he likes the Hispanics: http://www.vox.com/2014/4/25/5651432/cliven-bundy-spanish-people

Now let me talk about the Spanish people. Now I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders. But they're here, and they're people. And I've worked beside a lot of them. Don't tell me they don't work, and don't tell me they don't pay taxes. And don't tell me they don't have better family structures than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they're together, they picnic together, they're spending their time together. And I'll tell you, in my way of thinking, they're awful nice people. And we need to have those people going to be with us.

[derspiess]

Open borders types

[grumbler]

Eh, why does the DoD own part of the Missouri River...? 

Probably Army Corp of Engineers and related to flood control.

I think that you probably have it... land that is paid off on the Federal flood insurance program cannot, in some cases, be settled again, so the federal government buys it.  It would make sense that they turn it over to the ACoE.

[KRonn]

Yeah, I don't think it's fair to claim Cliven Bundy as a spokesperson for "modern Conservatism".

Agreed, though I do think that the people who see Bundy as a spokesperson and cause celebre would identify their cause as "true Conservatism" or some such. That, of course, does not mean it actually is, and I certainly don't think the brand of Conservatism you espouse has much in common with Bundy and his merry band.

That said, whatever Conservative politicians and pundits who made utterances sympathetic to Bundy do contribute to the claims that he represent some form of Conservatism, and one they support in some manner. I expect there'll be fewer of them - the repudiations have already begun - since Bundy starting philosophizing about Negros being better off as slaves in public.

Yep, Bundy is getting hammered on this stuff and rightly so, and support dropping off for him. But the oveall issue is land management and that's been an issues in other states as well, and with other landowners small and large. Texas is also now fighting the BLM and they're not nearly as likely to roll over as Nevada as the Feds already own so much land in Nevada.