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Perhaps Glenn Beck ought to have used the word ‘Statist’ rather than Leftist. In the US, there are very few right-wing Statists and free enterprise supporters, by definition are anti-Statist, while there do exist ‘conservative, capitalist Statists’. I don’t recognize the names from the UK and have no clue as to their politics.

I do recognize and know the names from the US, Robert Byrd, Chuck Hagel and Pat Buchanan.

The recently decease Sen. Robert Byrd from West Virginia was most famed for his pork-barreling ways of taking every cent he could from the US government budget and putting it into West Virginia. Just travel through West Virginia, the former KKK Grand Kleagle has every other bridge, highway and post office named after himself. This is hardly the record for a pro-Capitalist, conservative. Byrd voted for ObamaCare and every Big Government scam that came down the chute.

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel was a former Democrat, who changed his party to run for the US Senate from Nebraska. He is a Leftist to the left of the ‘maverick’ John McCain at the height of his representation as the Senator from the Media.

Pat Buchanan was converted to ‘economic populism’ during his presidential campaign against the first President Bush. Buchanan opposed NAFTA, other free trade deals and supports protectionism. Again, not the record of a pro-Capitalist, conservative.

One final point, just because someone is rich and made their money in the capitalist market, does not make them supporters of the Free Market. In fact, many of these people support government action to protect their wealth, by pulling up the free enterprise drawbridge, so that others can’t do to them, what their did to their competitors.

Bottom line, if you oppose capitalism (economic freedom), you are also likely to oppose Israel. And the supporters of economic freedom, poor or rich, also tend to support Israel.
Pat Buchanan