[pissant]

Better get out that napkin. You'll need it after reading this.

[Brett66]

Whew! I started reading this and saw the Buchanan wrote it. Glad I discoverd that before the second sentence.

[samadams2000]

Yeah..Islam is a big bummer Pat. Agreed we need someone that will fight the fight and cull back the koranimals. Not limp along holding the hands of the shieks while I get my scrotum checked at the airport.

[FreeRep]

Go home Pat Buchanan, 9-11 change everything.

[Mamzelle]

This will be fun to watch--bookmark.

[Czar]

Brace yourself, the party-above-principle Big Tent GOP party loyalists will not be kind.

Hark! I can hear hoof beats in the distance...

[msnimje]

Patty sounds more and more like a little boy with grudge. Did he get kicked out of a club?

[darth]

Isolationism died in 1941, Pat. We take the fight to the enemy now. Oh, and there is such a thing as a Jewish conservative.

[DTogo]

Third, a La Raza immigration policy, featuring amnesty and a "path to citizenship" for 12 million illegal aliens, pardons for all businesses that hired illegals, and outsourcing of immigration policy to Corporate America to go abroad and hire workers for jobs here Americans cannot take at the wages offered.

Pat nails this issue on the head!

[plain talk]

The Iraq war has been over for years. Its a peacekeepinf operation just like the one in Germany after the end of WWII. There is not a war going on in Iraq. The fact the WH has allowed the subject of Iraq to keep coming up is a massive political failure. The WH should have quit talking about Iraq years ago and moved on. Instead Bush has hunkered down like we're in some Iraq war over there. Its absurd.

[ozzymandus]

So pat is doing campaign commercials for the RATS now? Good luck with that.

[Zeppo]

Interesting that Pat Buchanan spits out the word "neocon" as an epithet in exactly the same manner as America's Islamofascist enemies and America's fifth-column leftists do. More interesting, though, is how incoherent his ranting has become. He is blaming every policy and act of George W. Bush that he disagrees with on those damn neocons, even though they had nothing to do with most of them. If the weather is bad, blame the neocons. If the President does not have a filibuster-proof majority in Congress, blame the neocons.

I'm old enough to remember a time when Buchanan's writings showed some insight with at least a glimmer of thought behind them, but those days are long gone...

[Obie Wan]

I agree with some of the points made by Buchanan here and disagree with others.The trade deficit for instance has been going on for a lot longer then GW's been in office,and the situation in Lebanon and Taliban in Afganistan preclude the Bush Admin.However the nation building in Iraq and the blind eye to illegal immigration are open to debate as far as I'm concerned !!!

[saganite]

We'll see whether or not Pat knows what he's talking about soon enough. The referendum will be in Nov. My gut feeling is the Neo Cons are going to be repudiated at the polls.

[Popman]

The Lebanon debacle, once U.S. complicity is exposed,

Well, I'd like to know what little birdie has been whispering in Pat's ear???

[Radix]

"What matters is unimpeded global commerce, where the consumer is king and gets all the goods he wants at the cheapest possible price."

That is an accurate assessment of things happening as I view them.

Pat is a pretty smart guy, but he is somehow quite dysfunctional.

His reasoning has almost always seemed to me to be convoluted and inconsistent.

Certainly his "solutions" would not be in the best interests for posterity.

His still not so small voice, "crying in the wilderness," is certainly corrupted.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

When I saw the title - I just *knew* it was Paleo Pat!

[deport]

Ol' Pat would be so happy if the Studebaker wagon was the mode for short transportation and the Conestoga was the long haul method and buggy whip manufacturer's reined supreme. Trouble is the days of sailing ships, pony express, letters by candle light and slave labor is lone gone but Pat just can't cope in his mind with it.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"The Democrats are determined to make the election of 2006 a referendum on Bush and the war in Iraq."


Huh? what?.........
oh, yeah right, uh that was the same thing the 2004 election was supposed to be about, yeah. Bush won that.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[WOSG]

"Fourth, a trade policy rooted in the belief that it does not matter where goods are produced or whether Americans produce them. What matters is unimpeded global commerce, where the consumer is king and gets all the goods he wants at the cheapest possible price."

Can someone explain to me why this isn't better than all the alternatives of socialism and protectionism etc.?
Protectionism may "save" a few jobs at home, at the expense of an overall lower standard of living for all of us; socialism is the #1 cause of poverty in the world.
Why NOT have a free trade system, which make us compete better and more, but is most economically efficient overall?