50 top conservative rock songs, subtitle %u201CQuit calling us squares, you beatniks!

Pandagon: "A reader found a blog that%u2019s reprinted the NRO's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs. It's worth reading for the deep, deep irony that is the #1 pick is enough to make this one a thigh-slapper. 1. 'Won't Get Fooled Again,' by The Who. The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naive idealism once and for all. 'There's nothing in the streets / Looks any different to me / And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye... Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss.' The instantly recognizable synthesizer intro, Pete Townshend's ringing guitar, Keith Moon's pounding drums, and Roger Daltrey's wailing vocals make this one of the most explosive rock anthems ever recorded - the best number by a big band, and a classic for conservatives. The fact that they fall for the 'small government' line and continue to elect Republicans who drive up deficits and curtail civil liberties demonstrates that conservatives are in fact easy to fool over and over and over again. Anyone who still trusts Bush after he lied to get us in the Iraq war is demonstrating a depth of gullibility previous unmeasurable by any instruments known to man. But the choice of 'Won't Get Fooled Again' was inevitable. The critical mythology of neo-conservatives is that they were once idealistic leftists and totally cool and could so get laid and knew where to buy the best weed but the tawdry stupidity of liberal beliefs ran them off. The seedy reality is that the only known human being to actually make the legitimate case that this is his life story is P.J. O'Rourke. The rest of them were just Marxists who ran off to be right wingers when they realized the American left wasn't ever going to embrace Stalinist authoritarianism. All attempts to claim the mantle of pseudo-cool rebellion must be viewed in this light."