Posted on 10/20/2011 11:40:57 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
The GOP could face a revolt from within its tea party grassroots base if it nominates an establishment candidate without true conservative, anti-big government values, one of Americas leading conservative pundits tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.
Specifically, columnist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told Newsmax that the nomination of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the architect of a state insurance plan that many say inspired Obamacare, could prompt the tea party movement to form a third party.
Its a real possibility because the tea party folks and the Republican conservatives and social conservatives and others are very apprehensive of Mitt Romney and they dont feel he is really one of us, Buchanan told Newsmax.
Theyve got reason for that feeling and that sentiment but if they do that, if, for example they persuaded Ron Paul to run on a third party ticket, Barack Obama would be easily re-elected, he added.
Buchanan would certainly know. A former aide to President Ronald Reagan, he was one of the first conservative commentators to hold a prominent job as a TV commentator and syndicated columnist in the mainstream media.
From 1966 through 1974, Buchanan was an assistant to Richard Nixon, and from 1985 to 1987, White House Director of Communications for Reagan.
Buchanan ran twice for the Republican nomination for president and then in 2000 ran for the White House on the Reform Party ticket. He said he can see a third party candidate emerging in 2012 if Mitt Romney gets the GOP nod.
Of the current Republican candidates he said, Certainly Michele Bachmann is one of us. I think Rick Perry is. I think Herman Cain is. If you are talking about a more traditional conservative certainly I would put Santorum in there.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I know this comes as a shock to someone like you, but having a different opinion of issues and events does not make anyone a racist.
What you are pushing is the liberal agenda of using political correctness to shut up conservatives.
You are a fellow traveler and a TROLL.
I hope that she gets consideration for the VP slot if she doesn’t gain traction in the primaries.
“but having a different opinion of issues and events does not make anyone a racist”
Sure, but writing revisionist histories where the Nazis are the good guys, the Holocaust is denied, always siding against Israel, writing admiring statements about Hitler, and never finding a Nazi you didn’t like or couldn’t excuse, does make Pat an anti-semite.
“This is supposed to be a discussion of a 3rd party run.”
You might want to start with Post 5 (my original post) and watch as Frau Donna derailed the thread defending Pat “I wear Hitler PJs” Buchannan.
You are lying, as do all propagandists.
TROLL ALERT!
Frau Donna, yes me and Victor David Hansen (an arch conservative) are trolls:
“In dealing with Mr. Buchanan, one must accept at the beginning two caveats. First, as is his style, he will always resort to ad hominem attacks in lieu of an argument. Second, Buchanan unfortunately is neither a reliable journalist nor an historian, and thus simply cannot be trusted to report accurately what is written.”
http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson061608.html
“Here is a difference between Patrick Buchanan and David Irving. The latter employs falsehoods; Buchanan employs half-truths. But, as Thomas Aquinas once put it, a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/article/2008/jun/02/00031/
Victor David Hansen is an “arch conservative”?
TROLL ALERT
Michael Savage refers to Herr Buchannon Pat “Buchenwald” Buchanan because of Pat’s Holcaust denials.
Add him to your list of trolls. I think you’ve run out of conservative commentators that haven’t rejected Pat as the Nazi that he is. Maybe Germany has some for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srh-79OEMKQ
And yet President Reagan trusted Buchanan.
Life is full of propaganda and charges of racism. Your job as a race baiter is secure.
TROLL ALERT.
And yet, President Reagan quietly removed Buchanon from any access and authority after Pat claimed Nazi war criminals were “victims” and should be honored.
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“One wonders if there is any point at which Buchanan would have said, “This time, Herr Fuehrer, you’ve gone too far!”
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2008 (mocking Buchanon for his revisionst history of misunderstood and peaceful Nazis who just wanted to give Poland a hug).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121130545086407543.html?mod=Best+of+the+Web+Today
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Frauline, be sure to add the Wall Street Journal as part of your Evil Joooooos list.
You forgot to call me Frauline. Getting tired?
TROLL ALERT
Wow, you really lack reading comprehension. Look again, frau.
Pat Buchanan: Knave and Fool
Why is the conservative iconoclast defending Adolf Hitler?
“[in his defense of Hitler] Buchanan fails to mention or more likely is just plain ignorant of was that the SS was already all over Poland and eastern Russia by the fall of 1941, with death squads (the dreaded Einsatzgruppen) who were conducting mass executions of Jews.”
http://pjmedia.com/blog/pat-buchanan-knave-and-fool/
— Rick Moran, American Thinker
You know, the “troll” publication American Thinker.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/pat-buchanan-knave-and-fool/
I don’t read the posts of trolls, LOL.
TROLL ALERT
Keep fighting the good fight with the moron.
I’ve never seen someone that stupid.
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