Populism is back

Thank God. According to polls conducted by USA Today, this country has had enough of neoconservatist foreign policy and globalist trade policy.

It started with Woodrow Wilson and will end with George W. Bush. Or will it? None of the GOP "favorites" have broken with the president on his singular, defining characteristic of his presidency: preemption. We will not wait to be attacked, but attack first, evidence later. "The world must be made safe for democracy" said President Wilson in a address to Congress in 1919.

This statement capitulated us into WWI and we haven't looked back since. John McCain believes in the Bush doctrine, so do Allen, Frist and Romney. Conservatives will not have a choice in 2008 worth a damn.

The Democratic Party will nominate Hillary Clinton, another hawk who believes we should forcibly disarm Iran, a country without any nukes. Progressive Populism's only hope is in Russ Feingold, a man who is unabashedly progressive and principled. Censure? Censure should have been on the table when the President lied about WMD to get us into the snakes lair that is Iraq.

What about the right? Will a silent populist like Buchanan throw his hat into the ring? On his site, American Cause, Buchanan lays out the case for true conservatism:

"What does old-time conservatism stand for? Limited government. Balanced budgets. A defense second to none. Secure borders. A trade policy that puts America and Americans first. And a foreign policy that keeps us out of wars that are not America's wars."

Although debatable, this sounds awful good to me and the rest of this country.