Conservative Punk

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Conservative Punk is a website that promotes conservative views in the punk subculture. The term may also describe any person in the punk subculture with conservative viewpoints.

Nick Rizzuto (an employee of a New York City rock radio station), created ConservativePunk.com because he believed that classicly-liberal, right-wing, and libertarian punks were under-represented in the subculture. Created partially in response to the left-liberal group Punkvoter (created by NOFX lead singer Fat Mike), the Conservative Punk website received significant press coverage during the 2004 Presidential Election. It includes contributions from talk radio personality Andrew Wilkow, and former Misfits singer and Gotham Road frontman Michale Graves; who has stated that punk is youth culture's version of Thatcherism. Since the formation of ConservativePunk.com, similar websites have been created, such as GOPunk.com, Lefty Destroyer (no longer online), and the blog PunkVoterLies. Johnny Ramone, guitarist of The Ramones, had espoused Republican Party values for years, including making positive comments about George W. Bush at the 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions.

The concept of conservative punk has been doubted by critics, citing the anti-establishment ethos of punk ideologies. Columnist Robert Jones has dismissed this charge, stating that with conservative punks, their "conservatism is our rebellion against the senseless rebellion of a selfish bunch of pampered children who shed more tears for four unfortunate protesters at Kent State than they did for the 58,000 even less fortunate American troops who died in Vietnam." Some critics have referred to Rizzuto as a "crank", but a Guardian writer noted that many supporters consider him to be a "voice of a formerly silent minority."

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