Posted on 08/29/2011 4:57:57 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Pat Buchanan regularly serves as Morning Joe's lone conservative in the show's self-described 10:1 ratio of lib to conservative guests. But Buchanan this morning demonstrated that he is anything but a Republican partisan.
Sounding more like Barney Frank after a bad night's sleep, Buchanan blasted President George W. Bush, claiming 43 "broke the Republican party and frankly he broke the United States as a superpower." View the video here.
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Not sure I’ve ever heard Pat Buchanan on Coast to Coast AM.
I admire Buchanan’s ‘say what he thinks’ personal independence and his position against globalism - which is certainly bold considering the mental headlock “free trade” has on both sides of the aisle. But it does nobody any good to adopt pretty much the left’s talking points about an administration which ended 3 years ago.
What’s the point Pat?
Get with the program, and either support someone for 2012, or speak up against Obama.
Pick a lane.
Last 0 with a Dem Congress Deficit 2010: $1.7 trillion
But as usual you cannot be bothered with the facts when they confound your emotion based dogmas.
FUGWB!!!
OH, so you give Bush a free pass for the astronomical spending in his last two years 2007 to 2008 because he lost control of the congress?? So the POTUS has nothing to do with spending?? Great defense for Obama to use, I am sure he will thank you.
What about the new entitlement Bush pushed in 2004 all tacked onto the national debt? He gets a pass on that too in 2007 to 2008?
Buchanan’s foreign policy would have us defeated as the world’s superpower.
Yes are getting very close to history writing time for W, I am confident the verdict will not be pretty. He should be giving credit for finally, after being severely beaten about the head and shoulders, nominating good justices to the Supreme court. Other than that, from a conservative perspective, his presidency was a monumental failure.
So badly was conservatism (as practiced by Bush) repudiated by the general population that a black Muslim/Marxist was elected president. So greatly does the nation fear another “Bush” in the White House that Texan Perrys’ biggest obstacle in the GOP primary is that he might be another Bush.
The Bush legacy is never ending wars against an enemy growing in strength while we weaken. A collapsed economy with a huge national debt. A federal government far bigger then he inherited, spending far more then it used to spend. And of course the Obama Administration.
Not much there to be proud of.
” The irony here is that the American Dream Downpayment Act was sponsored entirely by Republicans, including “conservatives” like Sessions and Santorum.”
This irony is not lost on me. I started warning FReeper in mid 2006 that “investment houses” would kill them!
Her list:
1) joined with open-borders progressives McCain and Kennedy to try to force shamnesty down our throats;
2) massively expanded the federal role in education;
3) championed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement using phony math;
4) kowtowed to the jihadi-enabling Saudis;
5) stocked DHS with incompetents and cronies;
6) pushed Hillarycare for housing;
7) enabled turncoat Arlen Specter;
8. nominated crony Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court;
9) pre-socialized the economy for Obama by embracing TARP, the auto bailouts, the AIG bailout, and in his own words:
I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
– George W. Bush
No, I don’t miss having a corporate socialist Republican in the White House any more than I like having a corporate socialist Democrat in the White House now.
Things I don’t miss about George W. Bush, By Michelle Malkin February 9, 2010
No way. However, imagine Eric Holder clones (probably with "moderate" sounding public records) replacing Scalia and Thomas. That would be a huge loss. The left has been planning for this for a long time, and it might be a lot easier than passing amnesty in a bad economy. Do you think the GOP senators have the nerve to filibuster such a nominee?
I don't want amnesty or a leftist SCOTUS, but I know either is possible. All we can do is study the GOP candidates diligently and use our best judgment, taking into account both their positions and probability of being elected.
” So greatly does the nation fear another “Bush” in the White House that Texan Perrys’ biggest obstacle in the GOP primary is that he might be another Bush.”
Look at Perry’s history.....he IS another Bush!!
Personally, I am tired of Vietnams, and Iraqs, and Afganistans, and “winning the hearts and minds of the people”.
If the U.S. is not totally and completely **dedicated** with single minded purpose of getting a complete, total, and fundamental attitude change from **all** of the enemy's people, then it isn't worth the lives of those who must go to fight. And...The dollars spent to fund these “actions” also represent hours of **life** spent in labor to create those dollars.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THUS FAR, WE HAVE NOBODY WHO IS ANY GOOD THAT HAS COUGHT FIRE.
DeMint was my first choice, nobody else even comes close.
This Texan is still on the fence re Perry, waiting on Sarah.
Back in those days 2002 to 2004 the Republicans conventional wisdom was that Bush was going to pull minority voters away from Democrats. But that plan only would have worked if the Housing bubble was real sustained growth and those minorities saw themselves benefiting economically from it and home ownership.
Instead of that by getting them involved with a Housing bubble (with the help of Democrats) that was sure to collapse (you hear one Republican predicting this in 2003 ?) and then trying to point fingers elsewear after the collapse and forclosures was a disasterous set of events/policy for Republicans. Only Obama appears capable of turning mionorities off to Democrats now.
We conservatives reflexively defend W, in part because of the relentless attacks he was subjected to for 8 years, but let's be fair...compared to Gore, we, as a nation, were blessed that W was in office on 9/11. He made the hard decisions, kept us safe...there were NO more attacks..and we are fortunate. However, he was not a traditional conservative..that "compassionate conservatism" early on was the giveaway..and while we all correctly praise him for Roberts and Alito, he also tried, against almost universal advice not to, give us Harriet on SCOTUS.....and early on, again, before 9'11//he all but sucked up to the Swimmer..basically let Ted write the Education bill.
Holding on to the opinion in the face of all facts, is childish.
Sorry the real world doesn't work the way your political dogmas say it should.
Buchanan ran against Bush in the 2000 primaries because he said Bush abandoned GOP principles
BUT he had no problem staying in the Nixon administration when Nixon abandoned anything conservative and went liberal
What a hypocrite
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