Pat Buchanan: I don’t see a single GOP candidate who could beat Hillary

[DonViejo]

A populist conservative might beat Hillary, he tells Salon -- while taking on MSNBC, McCain, the Tea Party and more

SCOTT PORCH

After losing the presidential election in 1960 and the California governor’s race in 1962, Nixon famously told reporters: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Soon after, he set up a law practice in New York, where he largely stayed out of the spotlight.

A few years later, Patrick J. Buchanan, a young editorial writer in St. Louis, told Nixon at a local Republican gathering that he wanted to work on what he felt certain would be Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. When Buchanan joined Richard Nixon in early 1966, he wasn’t so much joining Nixon’s staff as he was Nixon’s staff.

Nixon’s improbable rise from the has-been heap to the White House is the subject of Buchanan’s new memoir, “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.” Buchanan talked to Salon about the Republican Party’s turnaround in the late 1960s, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects in 2016, and what Eric Cantor’s recent primary loss means for immigration policy.

When you started working for Nixon in 1966, you were not as lined up with him ideologically as you might have been. Were you conscious of that, or were you looking more for a winner than an ideological match?

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[msongs]

1. until given reasons otherwise that is the main reason I would vote for her. hope she picks a great

veep candidate to cover her rightward tendencies

[monmouth3]

5. Her visit very early in the race to the Castro twin (Sorry I don't remember which one) was very

telling to me. I think it was Julian and they looked great together. Either Castro works for me, they're both smart, handsome and know the political scheme of things.

[TwilightGardener]

2. I don't either. Not because she's all that awesome, but because

they have no one who's serious: a lightweight (Paul, Rubio), a dynasty member with no actual rationale for running (Jebby), a corrupt bloated loudmouth (Christie), a scary ass-ugly Canadian nutjob (Cruz), a governor whose claim to fame is beating on unions and never bothered to get a college degree (Walker), and...Mittens (LOL--yeah). That's their TOP TIER. Basically a pile of unlikable nobodies, losers, and has beens.

[tridim]

3. I don't see a single GOP candidate, or non-candidate who can beat any Democrat in 2016.

[Romulox]

4. I think she co-opts a lot of their voters. nt

[leftstreet]

6. There's not much for a GOPer candidate to oppose

Regardless of her rock star status

Centrist, right leaning policies...

[pipoman]

7. He wants her to be the nominee

Because he knows that about 60% of the population would vote for dry toast over her in the general election. ..

[LordGlenconner]

8. You think so?

It's been awhile since any candidate (for either side) has garnered 60 percent of the vote.

[HooptieWagon]

9. Nov 2016 is still a long ways off. nt

[bigtree]

10. he needs to crawl back under his rock

. . . slime.