by David Arthur Walters

Created on: February 14, 2009   Last Updated: July 22, 2010

Would Eric Rudolph make a good neoconservative president?

News Analysis: a case can be made to nominate serial bomber Eric Rudolph neoconservative president of the United States.

"It isn't just our homes and selves that need defending," U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas proclaimed to the National Rifle Association Convention in April 2005, "it is our freedom... God gave it. The Constitution preserves it. And together we will defend it."

President Bush of Texas concurred via videotape, promising to fight new gun controls and calling for Congress to grant immunity to gun manufacturers. Politicians and gun-rights advocates present at the convention also denigrated Democrats, belittled the liberal media, and condemned the United Nations to hell.

Mr. DeLay's gun-loving speech got a standing ovation, an image that he hoped the national media, now preoccupied with the corruption charges against him, would broadcast to the people of America: "I hope the national media saw that." Gun sales are presumably booming as a consequence of Mr. DeLay's speech, not only to neofascist pseudo-conservatives but to those who want to protect themselves against Mr. Delay's version of god, constitution, and freedom. In the final analysis, freedom-loving liberals feel Mr. DeLay's god is arbitrary, his constitution unconstitutional, his freedom anarchic, and his character corrupted.

Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is back in the news; he obviously sympathizes with Mr. DeLay's love for gun-toting freedom as well as his well known prejudice against abortion and homosexuality - control over other people's genitalia and the womb is a traditional concern of patriarchal regressives and political primitives. An analysis of Mr. Rudolph's 'Manifesto of Hostility' indicates that, under different circumstances, Mr. Rudolph would be an ideal candidate for succession to the neoconservative presidency of the This Great Homeland of Ours.

According to Park Dietz, the forensic psychologist and former F.B.I. profiler who linked the Olympic Park, gay nightclub, and abortion clinic bombings, Mr. Rudolph is not original. "He doesn't say anything in this manifesto that hasn't been said by a lot of other characters." Unlike Unabomber Kaczynski's complex and sometimes novel manifesto, Mr. Rudolph's work is the product of a "second-rate college." Mr. Rudolph, he said, has an ordinary human need to be accepted an admired: "I think he has an eye on retaining fans." And, "What his manifesto shows is the expected

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