Buchannan is no longer a Republican, Thank the good Lord. He set our movement back with his "cultural warfare" and isolationist nonsense. He also did all he could to get Gore elected in 2000. Remember him whinning on TV about how he didn't deserve the 3600 votes he got in some precints in Florida. Gave the Gore whores addtional ammo for trying to steal the election. I haven't given him two seconds of my time since then. He rode high for a brief moment in NH, and then fell precipitously. He hasn't forgiven the Republican Party or Dubya since. He ought to just go away.
We need culture warriors, but Pat is sometimes too strident on these issues. My beefs with Buchanan are his isolationism and his willingness to stick it to the GOP even to the point of costing them elections. But he did support Bush in '04, which is more than can be said for, say, the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party. Pat can be accused of various political sins, but a disconnect from reality is not one of them. Whereas the genuine third-party people are simply out of the cognitive loop, in my humble opinion.
Righto. Buchanan is a conservative.