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HEY PAT BUCHANAN-
Reaganite Republican ^ | 02 April 2015 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 04/02/2015 2:32:12 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

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To: richardtavor
A current Buchanan clone is Grover Norquist,

Since Grover Norquist favors open borders and amnesty for illegal immigrants, while Pat Buchanan spoke out against these things back when today's Johnny-come-latelies on the issue were calling him "racist" and "xenophobic" for it, I don't think that's entirely accurate.

21 posted on 04/02/2015 6:29:12 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

“if Nixon can sit down and negotiate with a monster like Chairman Mao (who had the death of millions on his hands, and, indirectly in Vietnam, the death of tens of thousands of Americans) and Reagan can negotatiate with leaders of what he rightly called the Evil Empire, what is intrinsically treasonous about negotiating with Iran?”

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Mao needed a deal to defend against Soviets, couldn’t compete economically nor military on their own.

Gorbachev DESPERATELY needed a deal to save the USSR

But the Iranians don’t need us, any kind of arms control, nor Obama’s agreement... they’re used to the sanctions and seem to have adapted well enough. That’s why we are on our knees, BEGGING them, while they refuse to negotiate in good faith.

I would almost always talk to our enemies... just NOT NOW, current US leadership isn’t up to the task. Our side is simply parroting the Iranian position and attempting to stuff it down everybody else’s throats- the US effectively has NOBODY at the table!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/03/30/iranian_defector_the_united_states_is_negotiating_on_behalf_of_iran

Don’t want Obama striking the kind of weak, damaging, unenforceable, temporary 10-year agreement he’s attempting to do... entirely bypassing Congress, ignoring the pleas of our allies, etc.

That’s NOT how it’s supposed to be done in this country, plus Obama’s top adviser is an Iranian-born sympathizer who appears to hate American and all it stands for. Maybe that’s why everybody else already left.

WHY doesn’t any of that bother Pat Buchanan?


22 posted on 04/02/2015 6:49:06 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: major-pelham

That just about covers it. I’ve never understood the Buchanan hatred among conservatives. William F. Buckley once wrote that Buchanan is more of a prophet than a politician, and if the country is to be saved, it will be along the lines laid down by Buchanan.


23 posted on 04/02/2015 6:59:54 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

William F. Buckley resurrected or even invented the modern conservative movement by eliminating traditional Jew-haters from it. Buchanan’s Jew-hate used to be kept much more private.


24 posted on 04/02/2015 7:04:09 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ek_hornbeck

I ask you simply, would Ronald Reagan be making excuses for Vladimir Putin?


25 posted on 04/02/2015 7:05:41 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: major-pelham

David Gergan used to work for Reagan too. Information Director I believe. Don’t think much of him today. They all seem to go whacky in their old age.


26 posted on 04/02/2015 7:09:26 AM PDT by sockhead
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To: Lowell1775
Here are some of Buchanan's recent opinions (from Wikipedia): Buchanan supports an independent Palestinian state, but criticized the leadership of the former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (who died in 2004).[142] He compared the 2002 Battle of Jenin to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the battle of intractable foes. He says a Palestinian state is the only hope for peace, and would give the Palestinians "a huge stake" in "preventing acts of terror against Israel – i.e., national survival".[143] He also said that "Israeli repression" made the Palestinians radical, and describes U.S. policy as "waging war on innocents to break their political leaders" and fueling anti-American hatred.[144] Ukraine and Putin Buchanan wrote a column on 5 April 2014 in which he opined, based on Vladimir Putin's December 2013 SOTU-like Address to the Federal Assembly,[145] that "Russia ... is on God’s side. The West is Gomorrah," and "that Moscow is the Godly City of today and command post of the counter-reformation against the new paganism." He recalls Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, wife of Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, as being "stunned when in Tbilisi to hear a Georgian lawyer declare of the former pro-Western regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, “They were LGBT.”" Later on, he writes of Masha Gessen, who summarises the man thus: “Russia is remaking itself as the leader of the anti-Western world.” Buchanan writes of a world where Russia’s role, in Putin’s words, is to “prevent movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.”[146]
27 posted on 04/02/2015 7:20:38 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: jjotto

I assume you have intimate knowledge of Buchanan’s private thoughts.


28 posted on 04/02/2015 7:32:40 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

William F. Buckley did.


29 posted on 04/02/2015 7:35:30 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Reaganite Republican

“Buchanan sounded delusional”

That may be. But your and Hannity’s neocon position makes leaps of faith too, especially in accepting “facts” and intel from the media or the Obama admin, here regarding Russia in Ukraine, and Iran’s ability to go nuclear.

I don’t think he’s saying we should blindly trust Iran.

Generally his points go back to what I said in #6.

My point: Trust no one, especially when it could mean putting this country in the middle of someone else’s un-winnable war.


30 posted on 04/02/2015 7:40:20 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Reaganite Republican

Another point that suggests, contrary to defenders of Buchanan’s philosopy are excerpts in 1987:

In 1987, Buchanan called for ending prosecution of Nazi camp guards, saying it was “running down 70-year-old camp guards.”[155]

Buchanan asserted that six men accused of Nazi-era war crimes were innocent, or had not received proper legal treatment: John Demjanjuk, Karl Linnas, Arthur Rudolph, Frank Walus, Ivan Stebelsky, Tscherim Soobzokov.[8] Ukrainian born Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker accused of operating the Treblinka concentration camp’s gas chambers, received the most attention. Buchanan called his trial a witch hunt and said “Demjanjuk had never even been at Treblinka.”[8] After a highly publicised trial, Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death by an Israeli court, but his conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court of Israel on the grounds of mistaken identity. Buchanan wrote at the time that this spared Israel the disgrace of hanging an innocent man.[8]

In a 1990 column defending Demjanjuk, Buchanan also said:

Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. In 1988, 97 kids, trapped 400 feet (120 m) underground in a Washington, DC, tunnel while two locomotives spewed diesel exhaust into the car, emerged unharmed after 45 minutes. Demjanjuk’s weapon of mass murder cannot kill.[156]

When asked for his source, Buchanan said, “somebody sent it to me.” Critic Jamie McCarthy says this claim may have come from the German American Information and Education Association’s newsletter, a publication he accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. He also argues that:

Unlike the locomotive engineer in Buchanan’s example, who was concerned with saving the lives of trapped people, the Nazis had no qualms about opening the engine’s throttle and restricting the air intake.[157]

The Washington Post reported in 1989, before the controversy, that:

An Amtrak train had been stalled in a tunnel for half an hour, and smoke from the diesel engine had filled the first car, where there were 97 fifth-grade pupils and 27 adult chaperones. [EMT Cynthia] Brown boarded the train, guided the passengers — most of whom suffered from smoke inhalation — from the car and assisted those who needed immediate attention.[158]

In an April 14, 2009, column, Buchanan likened the persecution of Demjanjuk to that of Jesus Christ on Calvary Hill, stating:

It is the same Satanic brew of hate and revenge that drove another innocent Man up Calvary that first Good Friday 2,000 years ago.[159]

Supported Nazis and Putin? or the 3rd Holy Roman Empire (3rd Reich) and Russian Empire (Eastern Orthodox Empire)? Read Alexander Dugin’s Book - “The Fourth Political Theory” and the deep seated motivations of Putin, Mao, Stalin and all totalitarians’ motivations..


31 posted on 04/02/2015 7:41:42 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: jjotto

I just made a post on another thread about what Buckley thought about Buchanan. It may have been in the famous essay everyone quotes. Buckley wrote: “Buchanan is more of a prophet than a politician, and if the country is to be saved, it will be along the lines laid down by Buchanan.” That quote is from memory, but is probably 90% accurate. Joseph Sobran critized Buckley about the anti-Semitism thing; Buckley fired him, but they later got together and reconciled. I’ve always been a Buckley fan, and I kept up with him.


32 posted on 04/02/2015 7:49:42 AM PDT by odawg
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To: jjotto

Good point


33 posted on 04/02/2015 7:53:30 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: odawg

Here’s another Buckley quote, “I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it.”


34 posted on 04/02/2015 7:55:57 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Reaganite Republican

Reagan wouldn’t have had to make excuses for V. Putin because Reagan wouldn’t have let the relationship with Russia deteriorate to the point where the United States was backing the violent overthrow of a democratically elected European leader.


35 posted on 04/02/2015 7:57:44 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Reaganite Republican

I’m not sure which Planet Pat lives on.
He switches so often you almost think its Medication related.
Totally clueless on Israel


36 posted on 04/02/2015 8:35:06 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: riverdawg

“...Washington Senators and the Harlem Globetrotters...
Nice Freudian slip there. While I agree that the Washington Senators were only nominally a “real” major-league baseball team throughout most of their existence...I think you meant the Washington Generals.”

Aye. I thought old-timers disease, at first. But now I must agree with you. Freudian.

At least the Generals score points now and then.


37 posted on 04/02/2015 8:50:46 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Reaganite Republican

He is senile.


38 posted on 04/02/2015 9:12:50 AM PDT by Reagan0704
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To: Reaganite Republican
Mao needed a deal to defend against Soviets, couldn’t compete economically nor military on their own. Gorbachev DESPERATELY needed a deal to save the USSR But the Iranians don’t need us, any kind of arms control, nor Obama’s agreement... they’re used to the sanctions and seem to have adapted well enough. That’s why we are on our knees, BEGGING them, while they refuse to negotiate in good faith.

I guess you forgot that there's an embargo on trade with Iran, and that the Iranian economy needs us more than we need anything from them. Also, the notion that Iran is some kind of existential threat to the US, or that the possibility of them having nukes is so much worse than the reality of Pakistanis having nukes is laughable.

39 posted on 04/02/2015 9:18:49 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Reaganite Republican
I ask you simply, would Ronald Reagan be making excuses for Vladimir Putin?

When Gorbachev sent troops to crush a pro-independence uprising in Lithuania in early 1991, I don't remember George Bush (who inherited much of Reagan's foreign policy team) threaten an embargo, demand that we arm the uprising, or agitate for war. I doubt that Reagan would have either.

You seem to insist that John McCain and his girlfriend Lindsey Graham have inherited Reagan's foreign policy mantle. Reagan (along with Eagleburger, Weinberger, Baker) was much more of a realist than that. From the hysterics of McCain and the neoconservatives, you'd think that the eastern Ukraine is America's 51st state. It isn't. If the US had a territorial dispute/border skirmish with Mexico, somehow I doubt most people in Russia or China would care very much.

40 posted on 04/02/2015 9:24:06 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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