There's a thought.
Pat was a Anti-Communist who was a Republican for that reason only when he met Nixon in the mid-sixties.
Pat actually has always had conservative Democrat leanings.
He's trying to be the contrarian intellectual here but it just sounds idiotic.
Pat shouldn't be talking about Germany....period.
There's a thought.
Pat actually has always had conservative Democrat leanings.
That's just not factual. You are actually describing all of the neo-cons that hate Pat: Bennett, Kemp, Kristol, etc.
At one time Pat was an ardent free-trader (which is a more "modern" conservative position; once communism fell, Pat was able to re-examine free trade and adopt a more traditionalist conservative position). He has always quoted seminal conservative thinkers like Burke and Goldwater while the neo-cons were more comfortable quoting FDR. It is they who joined the cause to fight communism and that as their only reason. Most are big-government conservatives (except for tax cuts).
This is not to say that I am on board with Buchanan with all of his positions (especially that of Israel) but he is certainly more in line with traditional conservatism than the direction the Republican party has taken over the last 16 years.
I would be satisfied if this administration would govern like "conservative" Democrats when it came to domestic spending; that would be a giant leap to the right.