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Columnist Pat Buchanan Retiring
https://www.newsmax.com/us/pat-buchanan-columnist-retiring/2023/01/20/id/1105287/ ^

Posted on 02/06/2023 7:00:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Stalwart conservative and three-time presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing a weekly syndicated column.

Buchanan, 84, has been a longtime Newsmax insider.

After making a national name as broadcaster and author, Buchanan ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He became the Reform Party nominee in 2000, espousing his strong opposition to outsourcing and illegal immigration.

On television, Buchanan was a regular panelist on Sunday morning's long-running "The McLaughlin Group," and was an original host of CNN's "Crossfire."

A prolific writer, he authored 14 books including "The Death of the West," "State of Emergency," and "Suicide of a Superpower."

Buchanan began his career as a St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorial writer, advancing to assistant editorial page editor before going to work in 1965 for a New York City law firm at which then-former Vice President Richard Nixon was a partner.

Buchanan began a lengthy political career when he was hired as an adviser to Nixon before a successful 1968 presidential campaign.

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To: dfwgator

> I agree with him on WWI, but not WWII. <

Yep. Buchanan was spot on in regards to WW I. But I found some of his views on WW II to be, shall we say, rather disturbing. In particular, he felt that Britain and France should just have let Hitler take Poland. It was no big deal that Nazi Germany invaded a sovereign country, and brutally subjugated it.

Buchanan thought that if left alone, Hitler would never turn west. And so it would just be Nazi Germany vs. the Soviet Union. Two monsters fighting, with poor Poland merely collateral damage.

I dunno. Hitler was much like Napoleon. Both wanted everything. So had Germany beaten the USSR, I can’t believe Hitler wouldn’t have turned west.


21 posted on 02/06/2023 7:34:24 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Well the flip side was that the Soviet Union had as a condition of allying with Britain and France, getting half of Poland. Now of course they phrased it as “allowing Soviet Troops to be stationed in Poland”, but we know what that really meant. Britain and France told Stalin, no, so, Stalin made the deal with Hitler.


22 posted on 02/06/2023 7:37:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: alternatives?; DIRTYSECRET; escapefromboston

I remember a profile article about Bill Buckley’s wife Pat mentioning her driving a Lincoln (?) with a Pat Buchanan for President bumper sticker. So, at least *some* in the NR orbit appreciated the man.

In any case, I’ll miss Buchanan’s column. The man was usually right. None of us are perfect, and no one will agree with 100% of what someone else writes or thinks over a 50+ year-long career. But, in my opinion, Pat Buchanan nailed the big issues, was an independent thinker not a party hack and definitely got a lot more right than wrong.


23 posted on 02/06/2023 7:39:57 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Leaning Right

I think Hitler didn’t have designs on Britain, assuming at the very least Britain stayed neutral. He would have been ok with Britain and Germany being the two big dogs, if Britain would have allowed it.

But clearly over time, Germany would have eventually worked to thwart Britain once she won her colonies in the East.


24 posted on 02/06/2023 7:40:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
In the late 90’s Pat had a piece on the goals of the left which outlined most of what Biden has done. He knew it all.
25 posted on 02/06/2023 7:41:19 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Vision

“Death of the West” was a prescient work.

Like everyone, Pat was right on a lot of things, and wrong on others.


26 posted on 02/06/2023 7:42:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
I agree with him on WWI, but not WWII.

Yep ... although, if we had stayed out of World War One, I believe World War Two would not have happened. At least, not in Europe. We might still have had to fight Japan; that's a complicated different story.

27 posted on 02/06/2023 7:43:15 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
Yep ... although, if we had stayed out of World War One, I believe World War Two would not have happened.

That's my take. Sacrificing France and Belgium would have been worth avoiding Hitler and the Bolsheviks.

28 posted on 02/06/2023 7:44:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: alternatives?
a National Review cover asked the question “Is Pat Buchanon Anti-Semitic?

That was about the time I dropped my National Review subscription. As Bill Buckley and his influence on NR declined, it turned in directions I could not agree with.

29 posted on 02/06/2023 7:45:18 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m sure Mahmoud Abbas is available.


30 posted on 02/06/2023 7:47:28 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Long Before Donald Trump, Pat Buchanan was the loudest champion for building the border wall. His many prescient warnings just fell on deaf ears.

He is like the male version of the Greek prophetess, Cassandra…


31 posted on 02/06/2023 7:49:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Like Churchill in his wilderness years.


32 posted on 02/06/2023 7:50:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: joe fonebone; DIRTYSECRET

RE: pat buchanan is a moron

Can you elaborate your one liner please…


33 posted on 02/06/2023 7:51:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Pat’s “THE DEATH OF THE WEST” book is a classic.

PROPHETIC


34 posted on 02/06/2023 7:54:18 AM PST by Lonely Are The Brave (A man's got to know his limitations. Dirty Harry Callahan)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

In 1996, I ran as a Buchanan delegate in the Louisiana GOP primary. I was always very proud that I was able to have a part in that campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries#cite_ref-2

On February 6, Buchanan won the Louisiana caucus. Buchanan and Gramm had made several trips to the state to campaign. Gramm was expected to win, due to being from neighboring Texas and having the support of many of the Louisiana party regulars.[2]


35 posted on 02/06/2023 7:58:36 AM PST by abb
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To: DIRTYSECRET

His obsessions for World War 2 revisionism was, and is, pretty creepy. Why was it so important for him to defend John Demnjanjuk, or to endorse a claim that Eisenhower starved a million German POWs, or that Britain should have made peace with Hitler?


36 posted on 02/06/2023 8:06:54 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: abb

Buchanan has written that Crimea was always a part of Russia. That means we should stay out of it. Isn’t there something to be said for us supplying weapons to Ukraine? Deplete their weapons stockpile and make them bleed. Of course our money should be spent on the wall. Let Europe settle it . It won’t as 2 world wars will testify.


37 posted on 02/06/2023 8:09:33 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: joe fonebone
pat buchanan is a moron

Any details?

38 posted on 02/06/2023 8:11:23 AM PST by Fury
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To: DIRTYSECRET

For almost all of my nearly 73 years, I thought the US did the right thing unequivocally by getting involved in the European theater of WWII.

I’ve studied the battles, the strategies, the biographies of the generals and leaders. I’ve seen all the movies.

I’m not talking about Japan - we had no choice but to respond as they attacked us.

But Europe? Now that I’ve seen how they just never can get along with each other, ever, and after we’ve spent untold trillions of our tax dollars to defend them, and sacrificed uncounted lives of young men and women who didn’t have the chance to live, love, and raise a family...

Well, the past few years I have had the first inklings of doubt beginning to creep in...


39 posted on 02/06/2023 8:28:14 AM PST by abb
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To: abb

The other thing is, France and Italy came very close to going full-blown Communist after the war.


40 posted on 02/06/2023 8:29:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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