Source:The American Conservative– Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.

“The counterintuitive argument that Putin should be considered a hero of American conservatives probably originated with the founder of this magazine who asked last year whether in “the culture war for mankind’s future,” Russian President Vladimir Putin was “one of us,” speculating that the former member of the Soviet Communist Party and ex-KGB agent was, well, a paleoconservative.

Other conservative-leaning pundits perpetuated the meme. Matt Drudge called Putin the “leader of the free world,” while Victor Davis Hanson, who in what sounded like a bizarre S&M fantasy, ruminated that “Putin is almost Milton’s Satan–as if, in his seductive evil, he yearns for clarity, perhaps even a smackdown, if not just for himself, for us as well.”

More recently, the British Spectator magazine published a big “think” piece suggesting that Putin actually hopes to become the “the leader of global social conservatism.” The Daily Show even ran a spoof titled, “Better Off Red,” which portrayed Russia as the new “conservative paradise.”

From The American Conservative

I’m not trying to sound overly partisan or harsh and when my dad reads this he might say, “Why not?”. But when I think of Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, I think of the militant wing of the so-called Christian-Right in America in America.

Except that Vladimir Putin has his own state, government, security and military forces, to protect him and to do what he wants to do, which is remain the President (or dictator) of the Russian Federation for the rest of his life. And perhaps rule over the rest of the Slavic World as well.

Leon Hader is exactly right. Vladimir Putin is not a Conservative. He doesn’t believe in the rule of law, checks and balances, fiscal responsibility, strong but limited national and foreign security policy. He simply believes in power and wants that power to be for himself and everyone who looks at the world exactly as he does, especially other ethnic-Russians, in outside of Russia.