The conservative crackup continues

I feel like I am being picked apart by blogosphere piranha.

But it's not the hard left after me – which is unusual. Instead, it's the mushy right.

It starts with a little upstart site much in favor by faux conservatives called RedState.com.

Some guy I never heard of or met named Christian Bentzen over there writes the following: "Joseph Farah is the author of 'The Tea Party Manifesto,' a very small book in which he has attempted to argue that economic issues are the responsibility of the left and that the tea-party movement should distance itself from that debate altogether."

In fact, my name is Joseph Farah. I am indeed the author of "The Tea Party Manifesto." It is a small book. However, as you probably know if you have ever heard me speak or read anything I have ever written, everything else in that sentence is a scandalous, defamatory lie. If I thought the site had any assets, I would sue for damages.

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Either this guy has a reading disability or he can't find anything in my book he disagrees with, so decided to make up some stuff. I can't figure it out.

What I actually say in my book is that some materialist libertarians are trying to lead the tea-party movement astray by restricting it to exclusively economic issues – and that's a mistake. I explain that the left is known for its morally bankrupt, materialistic views and the tea party movement, the greatest grass-roots freedom movement in modern history, shouldn't fall prey to that kind of thinking.

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I also say I would cut the budget, taxes, debt and deficits more radically than any libertarian could ever imagine.

"If you believe that the tea-party movement has very little to do with economics, that Obama was not born in the United States, and that there is no separation of church and state, then WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah is a hero in your book," this deceiver writes.

First, I think the tea-party movement has a lot to do with economics – too much, in fact. No freedom movement in the history of the world has ever succeeded on a strictly economic or materialistic vision. That's a fact. I'm a tea-party leader cheerleader. It's called friendly advice. I want to free the tea-party movement to speak its mind on all subjects.

Second, I have never said Obama wasn't born in the United States, if anyone other than Bentzen wasn't paying attention. I said he hasn't proven he is constitutionally eligible to serve as president. I guess that is a distinction too subtle for some minds.

Third, I don't believe in separation of church and state. That was the old Soviet Constitution. I believe in the First Amendment, which states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." I want to keep the state out of the church, but I want to encourage the church to be an influence on the state – just like the Founding Fathers.

But none of those issues is really what put me in the crosshairs of Red State's little smear machine. It's because the site stands firmly behind Ann Coulter's decision to speak to and validate GOProud's "HomoCon" event and squarely against any questioning of Barack Obama's eligibility bona fides.

Next up is David Frum.

When David Frum is defending you, check your moral bearings.

I'm happy to report he's not defending me. He's defending Ann Coulter.

Frum builds on the false paradigm constructed by RedState – that conservatives should cede economics to the left – and then excoriates me for "trying to excommunicate Ann Coulter from the Right over her decision to address the convention 'HomoCon,' which is hosted by the newly founded gay conservative group GOProud. …"

Excommunicate?

I regretfully announced I was disinviting her from a conference I organized. She continues to write a weekly column in WND. I thought I was the one being excommunicated as a "fake Christian."

The real excommunication crusade here is the one attempting to portray me, the only public person standing up to "conservative" and "Christian" celebrities gone soft on the institution of marriage and the sin of homosexuality, as some wacko gone off the reservation.

Last I checked, 31 of 31 states voted with me.

What's wrong with these so-called "conservatives"?

Are they afraid of success?