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Buchanan sees 'war' within conservatism
The Washington Times ^ | May 17, 2005 | Ralph Z. Hallow

Posted on 05/17/2005 6:15:46 AM PDT by sawdust

Pat Buchanan speaks of American conservatism in the past tense. "The conservative movement has passed into history," says the one-time White House aide, three-time presidential candidate, commentator and magazine publisher. "It doesn't exist anymore as a unifying force," he says in an interview with The Washington Times. "There are still a lot of people who are conservative, but the movement is now broken up, crumbled, dismantled." Mr. Buchanan, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, says conservatism "is at war with itself over foreign policy, over deficit hawks versus supply-siders." Unnamed phonies, he suggests, have infiltrated the movement. There are "a lot of people who call themselves conservative but who, on many issues, I just don't consider as conservative. They are big-government people."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; betrayal; crank; end; exhaustion; gop; immigration; itsallaboutme; offhismeds; onsetofalzheimers; patbuchanan; soreloser; takemyballandgohome
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To: The_Eaglet

LOL! Good catch! I didn't mean CONSERVATIVE legislators -- real conservative legislators would be a good thing! I meant the big-government Republicans. The idealogues and the religious right (the part of the religious right that wishes for the federal government to step in -- as I mentioned above FMA, etc.)


241 posted on 05/18/2005 6:43:23 AM PDT by MsJefferson (Self-evident)
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To: Once-Ler

Could you please point out, where, in my post that I was anti-capitalist -- first of all. Second -- I call a spade a spade, buddy -- there's not ALWAYS a reason to fully fund every military project or base, and the FMA, and my tax dollars to promote marriage is bigger government -- you'd better believe it.

Let me get this straight, I'm a libertarian conservative, not a big-government-loving, authoritarian pseudo-conservative. I don't want the government to spend money peddling anyone's religious belief system -- just like welfare -- that belongs to the church.

What you don't understand is that what I typed IS THE DEFINITION of "conservative," people wrapping themselves in the flag, while spouting the same authoritarian, bureaucratic crap as the Democrats are nothing but Democrats of a different color.


242 posted on 05/18/2005 6:49:22 AM PDT by MsJefferson (Self-evident)
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To: samtheman
I do think "expressing outrage" will work if it was done. Sean Hannity, for example, refuse to seriously "express outrage" at the Republicans for their liberal moves and failing to have spine against the RATs. The damn callers to his show should make him stop his giggling act and lame "bash Democrats" act, and START reading the Republicans the riot act over borders and fiscal spending. If "outrage" was expressed to talk show hosts, in letters to the editors, to local Reps, etc. by enough conservatives, it will change. Our problem is that not enough Republicans do that but are strictly "PARTY CHEERLEADERS", no matter how liberal the party becomes.

These people do not fight for their nation, they fight for a party.

243 posted on 05/18/2005 6:49:52 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (John Kerry--three fake Purple Hearts. George Bush--one real heart of gold.)
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To: Sonny M

Uh...his views on culture are fascist. He wants the government to promote social engineering a-la communism.

That's the part where I start getting creeped out about Pat.


244 posted on 05/18/2005 7:18:16 AM PDT by MsJefferson (Self-evident)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Certainly experssing outrage is a bare minimum. But I just don't see it working. The powers-that-be (including Hannity) will just say "where else are they going to go". That's a stupid stupid thing to say, but to a certain extent it's true. I, for one, won't quit working for repubs. In the long run. Short term, I have stopped giving money to the RNC and sent them back a letter (in response to a fund-raising), telling them "not one more dime till you get a spine".

In fact, I was using that as a tagline here for awhile, but dropped it recently in anticipation of Frisk actually doing something good in Senate. I'm waiting. With cautious optimism.


245 posted on 05/18/2005 8:30:45 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: rdb3

It has great points, but its Achilles heel is human nature.


So you are saying that men are incapable of governing themselves!

Are you a closet Marxist?


246 posted on 05/18/2005 8:45:14 AM PDT by hubbubhubbub
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To: hubbubhubbub
Are you a closet Marxist?

Are you a closet fag? Are you a closet transvestite? If not, have you stopped beating your wife or girlfriend?

So we see where word games and innuendo lead.

247 posted on 05/18/2005 9:33:54 AM PDT by rdb3 (One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
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To: jackbob
The fact that most libertarians reject the LP has nothing to do with LP thought.

I think that most small-l libertarian FReepers would disagree. I personally stronly disagree with the LP on borders and foreign policy, and I dislike their neutrality on the abortion issue.

248 posted on 05/18/2005 9:37:06 AM PDT by jmc813 (All I cared about was booze, stock cars and women.)
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To: sawdust

With all due respect to P. Buchanan, he needs to SHUT UP! He is quoted constantly by the Far Left making the Conservatives look like a bunch of idiots and I for one am tired of this man. I do not know what his beef is with the Bush family but I for one am tired of this man!


249 posted on 05/18/2005 9:39:23 AM PDT by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: sawdust
One thing I would like to add, the Conservatives do eat their own. I watch this in several different areas from chat rooms to board rooms and it is embarrassing.
250 posted on 05/18/2005 9:40:54 AM PDT by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: sawdust
The other day a discussion on Eugenics was ongoing and I gave a name of a book for a gentleman to read to show how the Elitist in the late 19th century and early 20th century were the ones who started the Eugenics movement in America to purify mankind and purge mankind of what they called questionable people. In the process, I was pinged with a bump by another Conservative without cause. I quickly replied and told them to read the book and then get back to me but this seemed to have been a waste of time. This was truly amazing but once again allowed me to see why the Conservative movement is destroying itself due to a few within it who have decided to remain ignorant. So bump me if you must but I will still be a Conservative with our without making statements on the FR.

Thanks!
251 posted on 05/18/2005 9:49:01 AM PDT by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: Paige
One thing I would like to add, the Conservatives do eat their own. I watch this in several different areas from chat rooms to board rooms and it is embarrassing.

Don't sweat it, P. You just have to know who to engage, and who to avoid. It makes FReepin' much easier.


252 posted on 05/18/2005 10:35:07 AM PDT by rdb3 (One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
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To: eskimo
What are you doing here, this is a conservative forum?

It used to be that conservatism stood for morals and free markets.

253 posted on 05/18/2005 10:48:48 AM PDT by Once-Ler ("They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it." - Sen. Robert Byrd)
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To: The_Eaglet
I had read one rendition of it a few years ago, but I had not paid much attention to it since then.

Substance wise, the LP platform has not changed much over the years. Today's platform is a little less radical and a bit more conservative than it was 25 years ago. This lack of change is because Party is based upon the LP Statement of Principles, the main defining document of the party.

254 posted on 05/18/2005 1:23:28 PM PDT by jackbob
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To: MsJefferson
...people wrapping themselves in the flag, while spouting the same authoritarian, bureaucratic crap...

Well put! I add to these people, all those who wrap their own private foreign interests up in our flag in order to promote an interventionist foreign policy.

255 posted on 05/18/2005 1:27:05 PM PDT by jackbob
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To: jmc813
I think that most small-l libertarian FReepers would disagree.

Most self claiming small-l libertarian FReepers do not even know what the word libertarian means. They are for the most part libertarian in name only, much like the republicans have their rinos. The vast majority of libertarians who have been members at FR have either quit or been banned.

personally stronly disagree with the LP on borders and foreign policy, and I dislike their neutrality on the abortion issue.

I have my disagreements with the LP also. But the LP's position on borders, foreign policy, and abortion, were first developed outside the LP by the larger libertarian movement. The LP positions on these issues is quite well grounded in libertarian principles.

256 posted on 05/18/2005 1:36:15 PM PDT by jackbob
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To: JeffAtlanta

"Social conservatism will be the death of the GOP because it is such a turn off to most of the voting population. If the GOP ever ran on a purely social conservative platform (see Alan Keyes), they would start getting about 25% of the vote."


I think you are partly right, but only because social conservatives are demonized by the media to the point that they can seem like they are out of touch even when their views, or most of them, have majority support.

But there is no denying that on many issues, the socially conservative position is the mainstream, majority view of Americans.

Most Americans oppose gay marriage, and despite polling on civil unions, they too have been rejected in a host of states, including the closely divided battleground states of Michigan and Ohio. And even if it were so that most Americans favored civil unions or gay marriage, that is not to say they support having either imposed by the courts. I've never seen a poll that asked that question. It would be very interesting.

Most Americans oppose abortion on demand.

Most Americans oppose racial preferences.

And I'm willing to bet that most Americans don't approve of the judicial abuse and misuse of the Establishment Clause to ban things like public nativity scenes.

The problem is that many of those so-called moderate, suburban voters believe the lies about the Religious Right wanting to impose their values on everyone. If the GOP/Right could just drive home the truth that the only side imposing anything is the Dems/Left through the Courts, and that the 'worst' that social conservatives would do is make it so that such issues are settled democratically. They won't impose anything on anybody.


257 posted on 05/22/2005 7:01:40 PM PDT by Aetius
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
BUCHANAN BUMP!

I had a Buchanan bump on my leg one time.

I just put some antibiotic cream on it and it went away.

258 posted on 05/22/2005 7:04:46 PM PDT by Edit35
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