Pat Buchanon looks smaller and older than usual

[quakerboy]

He rather reminds me of my grandma. A little bit hard of hearing, a little bit racist, and a whole lot of clueless . I would hate to find myself on the same side of an argument as that "man".

[MADem]

1. It's BuchanAn. He was an EARLY opponent to the Iraq War.

He is a "classic conservative." Likely a bit racist--he likes the "Leave It To Beaver" demographic makeup of America. And more than a little bit xenophoblic.

From an interview six years ago:

Buchanan craves a pissing match on the right. Paleocons versus neocons. Sure, he and his nemeses agree on a lot of things: boosting military spending; opposing abortion rights; hailing tax cuts; championing ballistic missile defense; scoffing at the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court and the United Nations; and bemoaning government regulation, affirmative action and an alleged overall cultural decline. But they split on trade (Buchanan despises so-called free-trade pacts for undermining US sovereignty and claiming American jobs; to most neocons free trade is a religion), immigration (Buchanan says keep 'em out, while the Wall Street Journal welcomes the cheap labor) and, most important, foreign policy. Buchanan, a self-appointed heir to the isolationist America First movement of the 1930s, opposes war against Iraq. "The old policies of containment and deterrence work," he says. Moreover, he fears the larger agenda of the get-Saddam neocons: "They not only want to go into Iraq and disarm and overthrow this regime. They want to make Iraq a satellite of the US, democratize it and use it as a base camp for modernizing the Arab and Islamic world. That is imperialism pure and simple."

Why does an old Reaganite cold warrior recoil from imperialism? Because he believes modern-day adventurism of this sort cannot work and is unnecessary for protecting US security. Intervention abroad will only bring trouble back to America. "I don't think 1.2 billion Muslims, who are increasingly militant and who do have bloody borders, can be pacified and converted into little Western states," Buchanan remarks. "This Wilsonian ambition will end in disaster for this country." In other words, it's an uncivilized world out there, and the civilized United States ought not to become more involved than it absolutely must.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20021111/corn

[better tomorrow]

2. I thought he looked a little ill tonight on the pundit circuit....

he "did" look a little more wrinkled than usual. And, his snappiness tonight showed once again. I think he and McBush need to get some rest.....

[ossman]

3. He's running out of puppy blood to replenesh his dark soul.

[ThatBozGuy]

7. McCain needed a much larger infusion this week,supply side puppy blood isnt trickle down

economics, so there was a shortage in refineries. But thats why McCain made the mistakes and lieberman had to prop him and they had to shoot out to Iraq for a fresh supply.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Pat Buchanan is a fucking racist who ran for President on a racist platform.....

He was also in the White House working for Nixon when Billie Graham came calling to talk about the Jews.

Buchanan was born on November 2, 1938, in Washington, D.C.

He had a great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. He expresses pride in his Southern heritage. He is also a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans<4> and admires Robert E. Lee.<5>

Buchanan was an early supporter of Richard Nixon's political comeback. In 1965, he served as an executive assistant in the Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, and Mitchell law offices in New York City. The next year, he was the first person hired as an advisor to Nixon's presidential campaign;<11> he worked primarily as an opposition researcher. He was soon nicknamed "Mr. Inside" for his speeches aimed at dedicated supporters.<12>

Buchanan traveled with Nixon throughout the campaigns of 1966 and 1968, as well as a tour of Western Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War. When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House advisor and as a speechwriter to both Nixon and the vice president, Spiro Agnew. Buchanan was influential in the White House, where he coined the phrase Silent Majority and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon; in a typical 1972 memo he suggested that the White House "should move to re-capture the anti-Establishment tradition or theme in American politics."<13> His daily duties included developing political strategy, publishing the President's Daily News Summary, and preparing briefing books for news conferences. He accompanied Nixon on his 1972 trip to China and the 1974 summit in Moscow, Yalta, and Minsk. He also suggested that his boss label opponent George McGovern as an extremist and burn the White House tapes.<12>

On September 26, 1973, Buchanan appeared before the Senate Watergate Committee, due to his role in the Nixon campaign's "Attack Group." He told the panel: "The mandate that the American people gave to this president and his administration cannot and will not be frustrated or repealed or overthrown as a consequence of the incumbent tragedy."<12>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan

[durrrty libby]

5. Is he really that bad? Has he ever said "Gaaawd Daaaayum Ameeerica"?

Nah, He's not so bad and much of his analysis is dead on.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Pat Buchanan hates Jews, Gays, Black, Hispanics, women, and respects Hilter......

Know your history....the man is one of the biggest bigots on Television. Odd that you didn't pick up on it. It is apparent to me.

Here are some of his quotes:


"If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"—This Week With David Brinkley, 1/8/91

"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."—Speech to the Christian Coalition, September 1993

"I don’t care about the circumstances of a child’s conception. You want to execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn child live."—New York Times, 2/24/96

"Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family."—New Republic, 3/30/92

"Rail as they will about ‘discrimination,’ women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."—Syndicated column, 11/22/83

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer."—Right from the Beginning, p. 149

"The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance … How long is this endless groveling before every cry of ‘racism’ going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?"—syndicated column, 7/28/93

Buchanan frequently draws ire for his contentious anti-Semitic statements and Holocaust revisionism. In a now infamous 1977 column, he wrote: “Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him … Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/282/

[durrrty libby]

8. Did he inoculate people with the AIDS virus too?

[meow mix]

9. thanks for proving how hillary supporters love pat so much, even hillary would puke on you

bwahahahahahaha

[durrrty libby]

10. . "Gaaaaawwd Dayyyyum Ameeerrrrica"

[MadHound]

13. Well considering that ol' Pat is a Hillary supporter,

You can just think of it as Hillary supporters looking out for each other.

[irish.lambchop]

11. Your ignorance is showing.

Might I suggest you slip back under your rock and make a few adjustments. Most can counter that with education but I fear that is, most likely, beyond your reach.

[kentuck]

12. Did Obama?

???