Brenden Kelly’s (The Lawrence Arms) response to conservativepunk.com (via aubin on mefi):
Conservative Punk Rockers? I said, befuddled. Well shit, Toby. It must really just be all about the clothes and the belts at this point, huh. I mean, if some kid can listen to a top ten pop song that sounds just like the other 9 top ten pop songs, support the regime occupying the white house, comb his gentlemans Mohawk down into a respectable hairdo when its time for school and still call himself a punk, then it really has nothing at all to do with the ideas and ideals that got me into this whole thing when I was a kid. You know what Toby. Lets give those fucking Simple Plan listening, Paul Wolfowitz supporting, spiky belt wearing conservative kids the word punk. Its pretty useless at this point anyway, and I think that we could come up with a much better and less saleable word for a community based around songs inspired by anger and frustration and played by untalented musicians. Dont you think, Toby?
Not that I’m an expert or anything on punk, but somehow, support of statism or fascism seems to be antithetical to the ethos.
Also to note, it seems this whole conservative punk thing seems to be reactionary response to groups like PunkVoter.com.