The reason I asked if you supported abortionist candidates is because that is a good indictator of someones conservatism or lack thereof.
As far as Buchanan, as I said above I am not that familiar with him, but when you try to paint anyone who believes in sovereignty as an 'anti-semite' or 'xenophobe', that is not a convincing arguement. From what I have read, you seem like an open-border 'internationalist' type.
How will that help America? As willie said, most Americans do not support this. the politicians have a 'disconnect' with the American people. see the recent thread about what happened when Asa Hutchinson came to CA and was booed, heckled, & shouted down by thousands of angry conservatives.
And what do you think about FTAA? do you want migrants from 34 countries swarming into the USA unfettered?
Actually it seems that Buchanan believes in arab appeasment, just like he wrote how he thought America getting into World War II was a mistake.
The real reason you asked is because you measure an individual's conservatism according to whether they agree with you or not, you're not kidding anyone here.
I don't support out-of-State candidates, it's a waste of my time, and I have my own State's battles to fight. I do freely opine on the likelihood of a candidate being elected or not; I correctly surmised that Arnold S. would be elected, just as I know that Alan Keyes will not.
As for Buchanan, I would think more of him if he would just once, post a tome critical of the Democrats, instead of spending all his time tearing down the GOP.
That, in and of itself, should tell you everything you want to know about Pat.
Buchanan is anti-jewish (anti-semitic is the wrong word, because smart-allecks point out that Arabs are semitic as well, so how can someone be pro-Arab yet anti-semitic? Call a spade a spade...). He has repeatedly sited Holocaust deniers and their organizations for their research (like the Institute for Historical Review). He has stated that the gas chambers in Nazi Germany were not there to kill Jews, but to clean them (See "Denying History" by Michael Shermer). He later recanted, only to follow that mishap by suggesting that the Allies caused the Holocaust by invading Germany, and if Hitler was left alone, everything would have a-OK. Here is an article that exposes Buchanan's tolerance of the 3rd Reich: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=223
This is serious, serious stuff. A man who, in his late 40s early 50s, valorizes the Nazi troops? Calls Hitler a "soldier's soldier?" Entertains Holocaust denial fantasies? Gripes about the Revolution of "Women's Rights" that needs to happen in the Islamic world? It is the stuff that the Left throws in the face of the GOP, conservatives, free marketeers all the time. Pat Buchanan is a conservative only a Leftist could love, because he validates all the KKK stereotypes that the Left has of capitalists and Christians. He does nothing but damage to the Right, and probably cost Bush I the election w/ his tone deaf "Cultural War" speech. He fights the Cultural War the stupidest and most counterproductive way imaginable, w/ repugnant bombastity and pedantic appeals to life in the 1950s, instead of an affirmation of positive values and the use of logic and reason. He is the epitome of a Pyrrhic victory, someone who may embolden the base only to alienate the majority.
FTAA?
I am all for keeping the government as far away from business as humanly possible. But the connect between the FTAA and "migrants from 34 countries swarming into the USA unfettered?" is not there.
But you are being played by his minions. You believe the anti-immigrant crap they spew and repeat the same racist ideas without realizing how absurd they are.
Try repeating some of the things you read on FR about Mexicans on your job, at church, or in polite company and see how quickly you will feel like the turd in the punchbowl.