Posted on 02/10/2006 10:01:03 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
Three years ago, I wrote that Pat Buchanan was "the useful idiot of the liberal establishment" and that his "wisdom and patriotism must be questioned." After I penned those words, I received a barrage of hate mail from supporters of Buchanan. Much of the mail was anti-Semitic, and most of it was ignorant babble.
Of course, it is no surprise that Buchanan's supporters compose the anti-Semitic and ignorant wing of the paleo-conservative right. Buchanan himself is anti-Semitic and ignorant. This week, he proved both his moral blindness and his myopic bigotry in a series of columns supporting American foreign aid for Hamas, castigating American presidents from Wilson and FDR and Truman to Kennedy and Bush for their interventionist foreign policies and insulting freedom of the press in Europe.
First, on Feb. 1, Buchanan stated:
Understandably, the Israelis are close to hysterical over the landslide for Hamas and are on a diplomatic campaign to have all donors end all aid to a Palestinian Authority dominated by Hamas. But that is not in our interests. It is not even in Israel's interest. For it has been Israel's behavior, and uncritical U.S. support for that behavior, that produced this victory for Hamas. To continue on that road is to arrive at, literally, a dead end.
Buchanan's arrogance is astounding. The idea that monetary support for the terrorist group Hamas is in America's and Israel's best interest is laughable. The very idea that a man who has called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory" can speak for Israel's "best interest" is laughable. Buchanan, the anti-Semite, strikes again.
At least Buchanan is consistent. He believes that capitulation to Arab terror is the best solution across the board. On Feb. 3, he condemned President Bush's State of the Union address, averring, "His victory in Iraq, like the wars of Wilson and FDR, has turned to ashes in our mouths ... Bush seeks to counter critics who warned him not to go in by associating them with the demonized and supposedly discredited patriots of the America First movement of 1940-1941 ... Who has done more to empower Islamic radicals than Bush with his clamor for elections across a region radicalized by our own policies?"
Yes, you read that correctly: Buchanan feels that World War II was a defeat for America and identifies himself with the fully discredited America First movement. Of course, this is nothing new from Buchanan – he has already declared that World War II was not worth fighting. At least Buchanan's revolting and shameful betrayal of the hundreds of thousands who died for freedom in World War II and the millions who died in death camps makes clear one thing: The same folks who despise America's interventionism on behalf of freedom in the Middle East would have let Britain fall to Hitler and the chimneys of Auschwitz spew forth the ashes of every last Jew.
But Buchanan wasn't done yet. On Feb. 6, he blamed European freedom of the press for Muslim rampaging across the globe. European newspapers, he explained, had provoked Muslim rage by reprinting a controversial Danish cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed with his turban shaped like a bomb. "What was the purpose of this juvenile idiocy by the Europress?" Buchanan asked. "Is this what freedom of the press is all about – the freedom to insult the faith of a billion people and start a religious war?" Of course, no Buchanan column would be complete without a reference to Jews, so Buchanan added this gem: "What hypocrisy ... Skeptics and deniers of the Holocaust are prosecuted, fined and imprisoned in Europe with the enthusiastic endorsement of the European press."
Apparently, Buchanan is upset that Europeans would deign to be more sensitive about a Holocaust they perpetrated than a cartoon labeling Islam as violent. Buchanan is upset that European governments have not followed the lead of the spineless State Department, deploring the cartoon while upholding the rights of the press. Note to Pat: Radical Muslims aren't really upset about the cartoon. The cartoon is a stand-in for Western freedoms as a whole. Islamists are just as offended by the very existence of an elderly white Jesuit who tends to support their hatred of Jews.
Unfortunately, Pat Buchanan represents many people on both sides of the political aisle. He is the representative of a constituency that seeks American isolationism and appeasement. He is the representative of a constituency that always blames America – unless Israel is available as a first-option scapegoat. He is more left than right, and more nuts than sane. He is important for one reason, and one reason only: He reveals the mindset of America's fifth columnists.
Buchanan is a journalist, after failing at a political career. He's not an expert on bear traps.
Pat is a man of prejudices, beginning at his America Firster daddy's knee. He tends to shoe-horm everything into his roll-up-the-drawbridge mindset.
Okay I went and looked it up and so I was wrong. I meant that you can be anti-Jewish interests without necessarily hating Jews. I guess anti-semitic is used pretty much as a word for discrimination and hatred of Jews. Sorry. Anyway, I stand by the basic point. I don't know if Buchanan actually hates Jews or not.
Shapiro is the guy who wants the government to censor pornography.
"Buchanan's running mate was Ezola Foster, a conservative black Christian from Los Angeles."
The confusion comes in from the fact that Pat Buchanan allied himself during the Reform Party primary campaign with Lenora Fulani, an communist black atheist from New York. About the only touchstone of commonality that he could claim with Fulani was a rabid hatred of Israel.
B is a right wing conservative? Ah, yeah, right. Anyone notice the credentials of his running mate in the last elections?
From what I understand, Buchanan has always been a journalist. Do you really think I was using bear traps literally?
Pat is a man of prejudices, beginning at his America Firster daddy's knee. He tends to shoe-horm everything into his roll-up-the-drawbridge mindset.
I'm what you call an "America Firster". You're not? Why not? You draw your security, wealth and liberty from America and the work of her citizens, don't you?
Whom or which do you want to be first? 
Actually, Fulani allied herself with Buchanan, not the other way around. She walked out of the Reform Party convention when it was apparent Buchanan was going to get the nomination, and she wasn't going to get anything.
"Actually, Fulani allied herself with Buchanan, not the other way around."
The phrase "It takes two to tango" comes to mind.
When you get done with all that spin, try not to barf all over your computer, OK?
Not in the Charles Lindbergh-Pat Buchanan sense of the term.
What spin? It's the truth. To put it bluntly, Buchanan used Fulani to help get the Reform Party nomination, and when it finally dawned on Fulani she wasn't getting anything out of endorsing Buchanan, she bolted and started denoucning him. This happens all the time in politics.
The only reason anyone even remembers Fulani is because Buchanan-haters seized on her to "prove" that Buchanan wasn't really a conservative, because he was associating with a radical Marxist and feminist. Not only was this illogical, it was laughable: you've surely noticed all the Marxism and feminism that Buchanan--the fan of Joe McCarthy and Phyllis Schlafly--has been spouting since 2000.
I'm not sure I understand. What sense of the term do you use?
"Not in the Charles Lindbergh-Pat Buchanan sense of the term."
A more appropriate term would be "Jews last."
And in terms of a soul-mate, I think perhaps that Buchanan has most in common with Father Coughlin.
And Monica had sex with Bill, not the other way around.
' A more appropriate term would be "Jews last." '
So true. or maybe " Jews last...if we really have to ".
Please identity for me one statement by Buchanan supporting either Marxism or feminism.
His running mate was probably more conservative that he was.
And Sharpton is not alone when screaming racist against anyone who dares to disagree with him. And your point is.....
Patis a Raging Anti-Semite parading as the usual 'anti-zionist' that is PC today.
You know anyone else who defends former Nazi prison guards in his Spare time/as his hobby?
Buchanan and his mindless followers need to start wearing rags on their heads.
They may already be doing that on the weekend.
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