Bonnie is simply trying to redraw the lines of division and clean up the Paleo image a bit. Since most people are totally uninformed about Paleos it might work if Buchanan can keep his racism under control long enough.
Paleos are rabidly anti-Israel and pro-isolationists on trade as well as any foreign intervention. They literally cannot see anything that is more than a mile off the coast of the US. If they were in charge it would be worse than Clinton. We'd be fighting terrorism on the streets of every city in this country.
So yes, they are fossils.
We need to keep the good conservative principles that they share with more logical conservatives and let the bad die with the fossilized Paleos.
Buchanan is a throwback to the America First Party of the late 1930s. I do not consider it a form of conservatism but rather big government by another name. There is however an older form of which unfortunately tends to be lumped into Pat's group without discussing the major differences. Limited government, free trade, non-intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations if they do not represent a threat to our borders, and no foreign aid.
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."