[re_tail20]

After reading this article, I was thinking:

The United States doesn’t need to be a superpower to survive and thrive. The glory years that conservatives always cite for the U.S. was when it wasn’t a superpower.

[Pompah]

The only Conservative Pat Buchanan likes is Pat Buchanan.
Go back and sit down Pat, and take your book with you.

[Politics4US]

Jeff Kuhner says that about Michael Savage and Steve Malzberg too.

[Little Ray]

Well, we know Pat is right twice a day.

[samtheman]

In foreign affairs, Mr. Buchanan has been tarred as an America-hater, one who abandoned the Reaganite vision of U.S. global leadership. This is another lie. Like many conservatives before him - George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Taft - Mr. Buchanan is a continental realist. He champions a foreign policy based solely on protecting vital national interests. He supports maintaining the mightiest military in the world. He seeks to secure our porous southern border. He wants to end entangling alliances, such as NATO. He rightly believes it is time for wealthy Europeans and Asians to protect their own backyards - instead of piggybacking off Uncle Sam. In short, America has become overextended, squandering precious blood and treasure. It must retrench or it will collapse from imperial overstretch.

Interesting there is no mention here of Israel.

Buchanan, like Paul, wants to abandon Israel.

Why not just come out and admit it?

[logitech]

I’m guessing Jeff won’t be subbing for Savage again.

[Ripliancum]

Pat’s sister, Bay, who was Treasurer of the United States under President Reagan, is a Mormon... and after leaving Tancredo’s campaign in 2008, became a senior advisor for the Romney campaign.

That’s not going to go over too well on this site.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>... Mr. Buchanan is the last true paleo- conservative.

Fixed.

>>>>>Few have contributed more to modern conservatism than Mr. Buchanan.

Pat has stood for conservatism, most of the time. I still don't understand why he stays at leftist msnbc. Many of us were right about the Bush domestic policy. Brother Buchanan taking the libertarian/liberal position on foreign policy makes him look foolish. Pat's forays into "nativism, anti-Semitism, protectionism and isolationism' continues to damage his arguments and punditry.

[Tallguy]

Mr. Buchanan was one of the few conservatives to directly challenge the Great Society Republicanism prevalent throughout the George W. Bush administration. He opposed No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, runaway spending, amnesty for illegal aliens, economic globalization and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). He argues that the GOP establishment had lost its ideological way, abandoning principle in favor of power. Niccolo Machiavelli trumped Ronald Reagan.

Pat Buchanan is the "house conservative" over at CNN where he fits the same role as Alan Colmes when he was Sean Hannity's punching bag over at Fox. But hey, CNN's money is green isn't it, Pat?

[CPO retired]

A lot of good points there, sometimes he really nails it. This seems to be more muted about criticism of Israel and Jews though. Wonder why?

Aside from Biblical references, Israel offers the most freedom and prosperity of any Middle Eastern country I know of. They deserve credit and support for that.

BTW, anyone know whatever happened with the USS Liberty affair? Did they make some kind of amends?

[Penner]

Mr. Buchanan argues that our leaders have embraced the “New World Order.” Unlimited immigration, free trade, open borders, strident multiculturalism, globalism, a cradle-to-grave welfare state, neo-pagan morality, massive deficit spending and democratic imperialism - together they have triggered the moral, economic and spiritual disintegration of America.

Go Pat Go!

[Forgotten Amendments]

BTW - Kuhner is a complete fraud. On his unlamented radio show, he was a total neocon who ranted that anyone opposed to any war was an anti-semite. It was all an act. But, this rave review sounds fishy. What's in it for Kuhner?

This reminds me of Michelle Malkin writing a rave review for Hannity’s 2nd book. Then, lo & behold, she was guest hosting his TV show the next week!

[ckilmer]

A lot of Buchanon’s take on Israel had to do with giving Israel foreign aid to the tune of 6-7 billion annually. He was against it.

I would bet that the aid will likely go away sometime in the next decade when Israel becomes first energy independent and then a major exporter of oil & gas because of massive recent offshore oilfield discoveries.

Israel will have the same winning combination of high tech and energy that Texas has. At that point giving foreign aid to Israel won’t make much sense.