Pat Buchanan: The Untouchables ("Our first affirmative action candidate")

Human Events ^ | July 18, 2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[2ndDivisionVet]

Isn’t that third “North Vietnamese” on top supposed to be President Bush?

[Redbob]

"Pat Buchanan was a lousy candidate and pretty much a jackass but he hits the nail on the head here."

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then...

[Biblebelter]

Why did progressives recoil? Because the more savvy among them sense that, like much humor, this cartoon was an exaggeration that contained no small kernel of recognizable truth.

Pat is either dead right or dead wrong. With that assertion, he is dead right.

[ozzymandus]

Pat gets it right for a change. This is going to PO his new leftist buddies who have gotten used to Pat trashing the right.

I’ve been waiting for somebody to dare to label Obama the “affirmative action candidate” for a long time. Totally unqualified, and if you criticize him, you’re a racist.

[COBOL2Java]

True, but Pat has a fork stuck in him. He's done.

Maybe so, but turkeys can be right once in a while... :0)

[agere_contra]

Excellent article. This “Pat Buchanan” guy, why haven’t I heard more about him?

[swarthyguy]

Mr. Buchanan is a superlative writer, a brilliant analyst, and very often correct.

Sometime he just hits them outta the park. Like this one.

[SJackson]

Think so, doesn’t look like him.

[TNCMAXQ]

A lot of people say we’re tired of our rights being curtailed, and they blame this on Bush. Obama supporters think he will restore a new era of freedom and civil liberties. Think again. Have we not already lost more free speech and expression just with Obama being in the race?? Anyone who dares offend him is hounded now. After he is president, how will he use his power against people who tick him off just by expressing their views?

[SecAmndmt]

“Pat gets it right for a change.”

He’s almost always right.

“This is going to PO his new leftist buddies who have gotten used to Pat trashing the right.”

Pat doesn’t trash the real right, he trashes neocons, who are often, on balance, barely disguised Trotskyites.

[ozzymandus]

No, Pat is almost always wrong. It’s nice to see him on the right side for once, but he’s usually wrong, and he just rails against “neocons” because they took most of his TV gigs. Now he’s relegated to MSNBC to be their “typical frothing right-winger”.

[donna]

Put glasses on him, and Barack could play Malcolm X in the movies.

LOL!

[gunnyg]

Excellent article. This “Pat Buchanan” guy, why haven’t I heard more about him?
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The Pat Buchanans and Ron Pauls are drowned out by these “Americans” and “Conservatives” (so-called) who beat the drums for more Kings vice patriots; along with the controlled/msm....

Forgive me for the truth—never mind, don’t!

[SecAmndmt]

He’s right on social issues (all of them), right on opposing internationalism & globalism, right on borders, mostly right on managed “free” trade agreements, and very good on taxes and fiscal conservatism.

IOW, he’s almost the diametric opposite of Boosh.

[RipSawyer]

“I think it’s the exact opposite. They recoiled, because it contained TOO MUCH truth.”

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Exactly! The New Yorker crew was not smart enough to realize that you cannot satirize right wing reaction to what is beyond satire, namely the abominable Obamalamadingdong. How can you exaggerate something as absurd as an empty suit 46 year old first term senator who never should have advanced beyond the position of captain of latrine maintenance but is heralded by the press as the messiah who will deliver us from George W. Bush, a man whose fingernail clippings are more intelligent than Obama on his best day ever?
What I am attempting to say is I don’t think much of this clown from Chicago.

[elhombrelibre]

I kept waiting for the sentences on the Jews, Hitler, Saddam, the Neo-Cons, the Mexicans, and other boogie men. Somehow he made sense.

[Just another Joe]

Pat Buchanan was a lousy candidate and pretty much a jackass but he hits the nail on the head here.

Pat is very astute when observing.
It's when he's opining that he needs to keep his trap shut.

[Jim Scott]

I pretty much lost interest in Pat Buchanan's opinions some time ago when it became apparent that he had harbored a deep-seated animus toward Israel, which I consider idiotic. I was also turned off by his constant harangues against so-called 'neo-cons', which are mostly an invention of folks like Pat Buchanan. Formerly prominent writers and commentators who are pissed at anyone who doesn't walk in lockstep with their views yet dares to take the name 'conservative'. Pat Buchanan was 'Mr. Conservative' at one time (at least in the popular media) and I think he resents losing that status. Too bad.

Be that as it may, he does analyze the New Yorker cover cartoon flap accurately. Of course the weasels at the magazine squirmed and groveled when attacked by the left. Who is surprised? That the cartoon cover was far too realistic is obvious and that the attempt to satirize the conservatives supposed view of the Obama's backfired, big-time, is equally clear. Pat Buchanan got it right, this time. Kudos.

[Thorin]

>>>>>>>“Pat gets it right for a change.”

>>>>>>>He’s almost always right.

You are correct. Buchanan has been correct about all the big issues since the end of the Cold War.

[dragnet2]

Pat Buchanan was a lousy candidate and pretty much a jackass but he hits the nail on the head here.

Every time Buchanan writes an article I see this same thing. Over and over.

Pats always a jackass until he writes about something I personally agree with. Then he nails it!