What does the 2006 election signify?  What should conservatives do?  On email lists, I have been hearing the same story:  “It’s the fault of the neocons.” “These neocons have completely screwed us over.” And you know what, they are right.

Conservatives should whole-heartedly rebuke the neocons and their reptilian allies.  Neocons should be removed from places of power.  They should be fired from editorial positions.  And, in some cases, they should be deported.

According to almost all exit polls, the primary issue in this election was the war in Iraq - an unnecessary neocon war.  The irrational transformation of the Middle East to democracy is hardly conservative.  It is Jacobin; it is Wilsonian utopianism.  Russell Kirk, the father of American conservatism, criticized the first Iraq war for these reasons, and predicted the horrors to come from these ideologues who “mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the United States.”

The second greatest issue was corruption, much of which can be traced to neocon sources.  Whether the lying about WMDs, making bribes or seeking to undermine American sovereignty with the NAFTA superhighway, neocons have been front and center in these scandals. 

The third issue of importance was free trade, which helped to decide the Senate races in Ohio and Missouri.  Free trade has destroyed the American economy, and it must end.  Historically, conservatives have opposed free trade.  Russell Kirk and other traditional conservatives noted the destructive tendencies of free trade; it undermines first-world markets and national sovereignty.  Real conservatives do oppose free trade, but many in the GOP have been “neoconned” on this issue.

Despite the neocon lies in the media, Americans still overwhelmingly oppose increases in both legal and illegal immigration.  Every candidate – Democrat or Republican – was running on a platform to reduce immigration.  Recent Zogby polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans prefer an enforcement-only approach to any path-to-citizenship treason.  Unlike John McCain, Bush and Linda Chavez, most Americans do not want to see the US become a third-world cesspool.  American voters punished House Republicans because of Iraq, not immigration.

What would be done in a just world?  All neocons should be removed from the Republican Party.  First of all, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld should be ousted.  Neocon publications like Weekly Standard, American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, First Things, and Commentary should be condemned.  Thugs like Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol and Podhoretz should be expatriated. 

David Frum, Feith, and Ledeen should be removed from US soil.  Propagandists like Medved, Krauthammer, Jaffa, Jonah Goldberg, and Neuhaus should be ostracized.  The neocon henchmen like Specter, McCain, Condoleezza Rice, Fred Barnes, David Brooks and Andrew “Bareback” Sullivan (all radical left-wing activists in disguise) should be shut out from all discussion.  And traitors like Alberto Gonzales, Linda Chavez, and Gutierrez should all be deported to Mexico.

Real conservatives (such as those you would find at the American Conservative or Chronicles Magazine) have been vindicated.  They have always been right about these traitorous Trotskyites. 

This neocon stranglehold on “conservatism” must end.  Neocons have done more to kill conservatism than a whole army of Leftists.  The neocon, in short, is the conservative’s worst enemy.  Neocons delendi sunt!

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William H. Calhoun is a conservative, writer and graduate of the University of Chicago.