Posted on 08/31/2008 3:17:01 PM PDT by BGHater
A meme is developing out there among liberals that Gov. Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan in the 1990s, a charge that the McCain-Palin campaign strongly denies.
The evidence is the following, as first noticed by "The Nation": in an Associated Press story from July 17, 1999, titled, "Buchanan takes conservative message to Fairbanks."
"Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska….In Wasilla, Buchanan took some shots at the "Republican establishment," saying it was willing to cast aside conservative ideals in a zeal to ensure the nomination for Bush. 'I'm hoping the people of Alaska will disagree that we need a candidate anointed by Washington, D.C.,' he said to a group of three dozen supporters. Among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin and state Sen. Jerry Ward, R-Anchorage."
Palin wrote to the AP that her presence at the rally and her wearing a Buchanan button were merely ways to welcome Buchanan to Wasilla, not endorsements of his candidacy.
But that's not quite how Buchanan remembers it.
Buchanan told Chris Matthews yesterday that Palin "was a brigader in 1996 as was her husband, Chris, they were at a fundraiser for me, she's a terrific gal, she's a rebel reformer."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Buchanan is despicable in many ways. One is the way he tends to waaaay overstate (lie about) his roles in previous Republican administrations.
The article refers to his campaign stop in Alaska in July 1999, when he was the Reform Party standard bearer. (Like locusts, he and his sister gutted that party, stripping it of its funds and credibility.)
Another feather in her cap why she great. Go Pat GO!! Go Palin Go!!!
Triple Mega Ditto
Hell, I would have voted for for Pat in a heartbeat over McInsane or Osama. I will however vote for Palin and that RINO on her ticket. I wouldn’t vote for pat over that...
Obama supporters applauding Buchanan as he lavishes praise on The One.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fKrxGK9ew
Why has everyone stopped talking about Barack Hussein Obama’s associations? I can’t believe there are Americans who will actually vote for that guy, what a piece of shit.
So what if she was?
That is my thought as well.
“So what if she was?”
Perhaps because Buchanan makes excuses for the actions of Nazi Germany, says that Hitler had no plans to eliminate Jews, and suggests Britain was responsible for the Holocaust?
“Was The Holocaust Inevitable?”
http://townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/06/20/was_the_holocaust_inevitable
Buchanan is a lowlife.
I stand corrected.
Steve Forbes, my main man.
i wouldn’t be surprised if she was at the fundraiser, but I’d be surprised if Buchanon knows whether she gave any money, much less whether she raised money for him from others (which I presume is what a “bridagier” is).
I presume she is denying it because it is false. You certainly don’t want her “admitting” something that isn’t true just because it might help.
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