Buchanan sees 'war' within conservatism

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 5/17/05 | Ralph Z. Hallow

[coffeebreak]

Personally I think politicians will hear conservatives loud and clear during the 2006 elections. They don't seem to have gotten the message of 2004. Homosexuality and illegal immigration have most conservatives livid.

[Darkwolf]

Pat Buchanan can see into the future but can't win an election?

[Petronski]

Buchanan sees war between anti-semites and normal human souls.

[Torie]

Unnamed phonies, he suggests, have infiltrated the movement.

True. And one of the premier phonies, in a master stroke of self projection, is the author of this article.

[NewRomeTacitus]

What's up with this Ralph Zallow guy?

[NewRomeTacitus]

Er, Ralph Z. Hallow?

[jess35]

It's all well and good to be an ideologue but if you can't win an election because you refuse to bend, what good are your ideas?

Domestically, I despise the President BUT I understand that we'be basically reached the point where we have to pay off the leaches of society to keep them from overrunning the rest of us.

[okie01]

Author? Or subject?

[West Coast Conservative]

Mr. Buchanan, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, says conservatism "is at war with itself over foreign policy...

Once again Buchanan is wrong. Of all the things that divide conservatives, foreign policy isn't one of them.

[CBart95]

Old Pat is wrong.
As usual.
Things are exactly opposite of what he says.
The deliberate conspiracy to perpetuate illegal immigration and the failure to candidly name names of all participants in the worldwide war on terrorism has conservatives infuriated.
Gays are merely a subset of the failure of liberalism. It will also pass like all wretched excesses.

[Torie]

I thought Pat B. wrote the article. I don't know the author from Adam. He's probably some starving blogger begging for attention.

Pat is the ersatz conservative. Pat has authoritarian tendencies. He can't stand folks living their lives in a post Vatican II world, particularly one that is not dominated by folks who tend to get sunburn. He wants to prop up buggy whip industries. He wants as his model the calcified Euoprean guild system of the middle ages, with jobs passed down in a closed system from father to son (women shouldn't work). He wants to bring back the auto de fe in his little bigoted black Irish heart. That is the essential Pat. JMO.

[Andy from Beaverton]

I think Pat has finally gone crazy like his brother did.

[xJones]

"The conservative movement has passed into history," says the one-time White House aide, three-time presidential candidate, commentator and magazine publisher

I guess the conservative movement went in the dumpster when the nation rejected Pat 3 times. The 2000 election was an absolute conservative joy when Pat said that any hanging chad votes in the 3 contested Florida counties probably belonged to Gore. Sour grapes ain't the term for it....

[mhx]

Lots of people can't win an election.

[Oreo Kookey]

Buchanan is the "thing" that is passe'.

[thegreatbeast]

A number of you need a remedial reading course. Your reading comprehension is the s*!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Pat Buchanan is like a kidney stone. He's a pain in the back and you're oh so glad when he goes away.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Pat Buchanan passing gas on the topic of What Is and Isn't "True Conservatism" is a lot like listening to Dan Rather nattering on journalistic ethics, or Michael Moore dispensing diet and grooming tips.

The gut, instinctive reaction, on the part of any sober, rational human being over the intellectual age of two, is an immediate and emphatic: "Lick Me."

[CyberAnt]

movement is now broken up, crumbled, dismantled