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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During Pat’s campaign was the first political rally I ever attended. And when I first began to understand how much the governmental power structure hated normal people.
I loved it when he took his presidential campaign to a gun show.
The hatred towards him. That’s all the left had and the Bush wing of the party was complicit.
Mr Buchanan will be missed. A MAGA voice before before it became a campaign slogan.
Yep. Trump was inspired by Buchanan.
A great Paleo conservative. He will be sorely missed.
He was great on some things, wasn’t great on other things
I agree with him on WWI, but not WWII.
One of the best writers I’ve ever seen, whether I agreed with him or not.
IBITHWD........................
1992 primary vs. Bush ‘41-It was important for him to keep the party in line with it’s principles. Cost us big but Clinton would have probably won-we’ll never know.
Goldwater took that step in ‘64 and it took 16 years for Reagan to come along. It took Trump 24 after Buchanan. Could be that the country will have a hard time acknowledging the hard truths out there. As a counter measure the rats can always tone it down with the smooth talkers(BJ/Kenyan) and point out our rough edges but without the brutal truths we get Bush, MaCain, Mittens, etc.
Will the country come to that realization next year? The younger generation never experienced the freedoms we’re losing each year. The less informed are easier to control. 2025 will tell.
I remember when he ran the first time, a National Review cover asked the question “Is Pat Buchanon Anti-Semitic? With limited evidence, based mostly on his positions, they concluded he was. I wondered why they never did the same analysis on James Carter. There certainly was more evidence. That was one of my early recognition of the uni-party nature of National Review.
Voted for him when he first ran for president.
If he won the entire country would be 100x better off than it is today.
Buckley was still alive then. He supported Buchanan as a ‘protest’.
He was an American first patriot. He was an intellectual populist.
He stood miles above open border RINOS like the Bush family.
Like Trump...he was despised by the left and the fake conservative incorporated crowd.
LOL!
I like Buckley a lot but National Review was always the “gatekeepers” over what is allowed for conservative thought.
They tried it again with Trump but failed since it’s not the magazine it once was.
pat buchanan is a moron
I recall Pat once answering another TV panelist, “You have to understand the Democrat and Republican Parties are the left and right wings of the same bird of prey”. Is it ever so true.
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