I hope the Bush brand of conservatism that left him with a 35% approval rating and paved the way for Obama is forever discredited.
Pat IS a Nazi.
GW Bush did not pave the way for barry, McCain lost the election. Oh, yea, is PB a nazi probably not but he is an anti-Semite.
Bush is a disaster and disgrace and I defended him for eight years.
To all Bushies...Your fired!
W is a free spending, open borders advocating, unfair trade promoting, compassionate "conservative".
Who’s the better POTUS? W or Pat?
Pat IS a NAZI.
Well, you’re as far off as you can get. I met with the man for an hour and a half in the White House and he displayed more “Historical Literacy” than Buchanan ever had in his life. Indeed, prior to Obama, the Bush plan in Iraq-—even if an accident-—as the ONE way we could win the WoT, by sucking every jihadist in the world into one place. Buchanan has spent too much time with Scarborough and his brain is indeed Nazified.
Compassionate Conservatism is just another "ism" created by K street liberals to co-opt the Republican party.
We get Democrat or Democrat.
Pat is an ANTI-SEMITE....don’t know about that Nazi thingy.
Hrm...well...Bush was right...pat is playing word games..
When America joined the Great War in 1917, it tilted the balance against the Central Powers (Germany and her allies), because of her large population and industrial might. When the war ended, President Wilson was in a strong position to influence the peace treaties -the peace settlement was based in fact upon his “Fourteen Points”, e.g. a new international body called the League of Nations was to be set up to keep the peace between nations.
Sadly the Americans turned their backs on Wilson (he lost the 1920 election) and on Europe. Many Americans believed that the sacrifices they had made in the Great War had been a waste of money and men. They were opposed to anything that might drag America into another European war. So the USA did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles (officially accept it), nor did she join the League of Nations or the International Court of Justice. Many Americans simply wanted to enjoy the prosperity that had developed in the previous decade and felt that foreign entanglements would threaten it.
During the 1920’s and 1930’s, America was in isolation, i.e. she kept I herself to herself and took little part in international relations I (conferences and treaties between the nations) .In addition America, isolated herself in terms of trade. Tariffs (import duties) were put on foreign goods to protect American industry. (Because they could not sell their goods to America, European countries could not afford to buy agricultural goods (farm produce) from the USA. This was one of the causes of the Depression.)
America turned its back on Europe in another way. It cut down the number of immigrants allowed into the USA. America was a nation of immigrants. (The native peoples being the dwindling number of Indians, who were largely restricted to remote reservations.) Up until the Great War millions of people, mainly from Europe, had gone to America to seek their fortune and/or escape poverty and persecution. British people, especially the Irish, Germans and Jews, particularly
Oh and Pat is a Nazi.
No doubt Pat would have been more satisfied with Gore/Lieberman or the Viet Nam hero, jon carry and Edwards.
What an appalling twisting of facts.
And as for this: Result: two wars that have bled his country and reaped a harvest of hate, the deindustrialization of America and a republic on its way to becoming the new world order's Tower of Babel.
I would argue the wars are a result of irrational hatred on the part of our enemies. And if he thinks the Bush administration caused the "deindustrialization" of America, I would think it is Pat who needs to apologize to his professors for letting him escape the academy without an ounce of horse sense.
I'm not saying this to defend Bush, but to point out Pat's fatuous arguments.
Pat who?
What has he ever accomplished?
Bush’s “daddy?”
Patty, Patty, what is wrong with you? Bush is more of a man than that. He actually let his transcripts be found. Imagine that.
He actually ran the state of Texas before becoming President. He actually won two elections legally.
I’d say Bush was sloppy but Pat’s pedantic. Yeah, Bush got the dates wrong for the America First Isolationism but there was isolationism in the ‘20s, alongside with Wilsonian interventionism and everything inbetween. Yeah, it’s correct that Nativism arose in the 1840s but that doesn’t mean that anti-Jewish sentiments were not around in the 1920s.
Yeah, Bush was sloppy. Pat’s got a bone to pick with Bush’s Wilsonianism. But this particular piece was as much a tissue of cheap shots as Bush’s speech appears to have been sloppy.
The two deserve each other.
Pat warned us all during NAFTA...
The Bush’s are progressives...PERIOD...new world order, etc...
I agree with a lot of this article. However, Buchanan condemning someone for bad history is rich. Patty blames Poland and Churchill for World War 2 and the Holocaust.