[Terpfen]

"What, then, are the yardsticks of success for a second Bush term?"

The fulfilling of Bush's campaign promises--which are conservative in nature (a RINO wouldn't campaign on Social Security reform)--is the measure of his second term's success.

[Dog Gone]

Buchanan, the ultimate nattering nabob of negativism.

[dirtboy]

But if the Sunni insurgency tears Iraq apart in chaos and civil war, leading to a U.S. withdrawal, or a second Vietnam, Bush’s fate is sealed.

Pat, I would hope you would resist the dark side and avoid the Vietnam mentality so prevalent on the left.

[DTogo]

I was going to read this, but got bored after the first few sentences. Too much hot air and not enough substance, again, from Pat.

[Soul Seeker]

He will have launched a war of choice, not necessity,i>

Actually, no. The war is validated no matter the outcome. The long term results of his policies in the M.E., Iraq being one, is essential only in that success is necessary to provide the will to continue. Success provides successors the courage to continue to pro-actively protect America by spreading freedom.

and lost it, something no other president has ever done.

Ever hear of Vietnam?

An historic victory this was not.

Yet before he cites this...

For the second election in a row, George W. Bush increased his party’s strength in Congress as he secured the second term his father failed to win. Not since FDR has a new president done so well by his party.

This isn't an historic victory? Buchanon would do well to consult the model Bush & Rove consulted for victory. the outcome matched it near exactly. Had they wished an electoral landslide, the model would have differed.

[TheBrotherhood]

"As for the Bush guest-worker plan for illegal aliens, it is in trouble in the House, as he is condemned in his own party for refusing to secure America’s borders."

Oh so very true.

Pat is a good Christian man.

If hordes of illegal aliens (estimated at as much as 20 millions) are given amnesty with subsequent citizenship, this country's cultural heritage would be transformed from a Christian one to a Third World one.

[1LongTimeLurker]

Pat is trying so hard to stay relevant, but he doesn't realize people stopped caring about him in 1992.

[A. Pole]

Bump

[southernnorthcarolina]

Pat who?

The name sounds vaguely familiar, as does the idiotic, bitter rant. But I just can't quite place him...

[COEXERJ145]

Go Pat, Go Away

[alienken]

I want to support Buchanan but I just don't think he is up to the war on terror, he's to much of an isolationist

[rdb3]

After having turned a $200 billion Clinton surplus into a $400 billion deficit...

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Leave your talking-points at home, Pat. There was never a surplus. It was a projection.

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This points to clear sailing for the economy, but the political question remains: will working America share equitably in Wall Street’s prosperity?

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From each according to his means to each according to his needs, eh Pat?

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The price in dead and wounded, American and Iraqi, in divisions within this country and with our allies, in the anger and alienation of the Arab and Islamic street, is already high and rising.

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I take what he means about "our allies" includes the French and the Germans. Sorry, but they're no longer our allies. "Aleination of the Arab and Islamc street?" Uh, last time I looked, the "Arab street" was alienated from us by their own choice, and was extremely hostile to the U.S. long before the current war in Iraq. Their aleination and anger means nothing to us. They'll remain angry with us no matter what we do.

Screw them. That includes the Frogs and the Germans as well.

Real men don't whine.

[bayourod]

Buchanan couldn't hold it any longer. He finally burst open with all his pent-up jealousy of President Bush.

Buchanan is a tragic character, a court jester who thought he was better than the king and couldn't understand why everyone thought him a fool.

He just knew that 2000 was his turn to get the nomination. He was so certain that the voters would see his superiority that he didn't even bother hiring a real campaign manager, he just named his little sister.

Instead of doing the hard fundamental work of a candidate he thought all he had to do was go on TV shows and deride President Bush as "that Bush boy"

I'm convinced that Buchanan was Deep Throat.

[Malesherbes]

"FDR carried every state except Maine and Vermont." Those were the only two "red" states then. Now Vermont is solid blue and Maine is more blue than red. I don't know what happened to those old Yankee values, but if it were not for the South and the the central states, we'd be in really deep doo-doo now.

[em2vn]

Sound observation by an outstanding American conservative.

[F16Fighter]

On the “moral values” front, there is but one test. Can he [Dubya], will he, reshape the Supreme Court and ring down the curtain on the revolution it has been imposing upon this country, illegitimately, for 50 years?

IF he wants to.

The President has ALL the cards in his favor -- the majority in BOTH Houses.

He has no excuse to do otherwise.

[reelfoot]

Spot on analysis by Pat. The president can define himself during his second term as a freedom loving, small government president: ending illegal immigration, sharply curtailing legal immigration, cutting domestic spending (including his own whopper sized MediPill program), opposing discrimination against Whites and Asians, curtailing the U.S. world policeman role, refusing to cede American sovereignty to the U.N. or spend billions in tax money on foreign welfare programs, and ending the long tyranny of federal hegemony over sovereign states. Will he do it? That is all Pat is asking in this article. What is your prediction?

[Tempest]

Pat Buffon loves the sound of his own keyboard.