Oh boy, now it’s time to attack Buchanan instead of reading the article.
What Pat said.
Wow...Pat nails it
The over-reaction to the Akin comments from the Liberal wing of the GOP have been incessant. You think the Dem. Underground had a GOP branch.
Of course, the PhonyCon Pro-Aborts should be on here attacking Buchanan in 3...2...1...
Good news Pat sayin’ and Akin stayin’
Word.
I guess we have some conservatives who, if they had been captain instead of John Paul Jones, wouldn’t have said “I have not yet begun to fight”, but would’ve peed their pants and run up a white flag. Maybe they could wave coulter’s underwear.
Thank you Patrick. it is about time someone brought this into focus.
I don’t always agree with with Pat - but he nailed this one.
IMO - any “principled-purists” calling for Akin to step down have shown themselves to be neither.
” The GOP’s insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.
Beating up on Todd Akin is not going to change that.”
Bingo
IIRC Buchanan has been an enemy of the Neocons who got us unto Iraq and Afghanistan and now he’s bemoaning the GOP’s lack of testicles for not speaking up for further interventionist policies? Oh, the irony.
But if a Republican is caught littering, there is hell to pay.
So Republicans have to be more careful, more finessed. Until schools of journalism become more balanced, a Republican who yells “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” is simply going to get torpedoed.
Pat, you hit the target ...
I was just about to try once again to find that quote.. I had it wrong with something more like "kill their own."
I believe that Chambers predicted that the commies would win based upon what he experienced and witnessed.
Obviously Buchanan has not swallowed the Republican koolaid with the favorable comparison with the Pope and Reagan.
Bad analogy. Akin is not a wounded comrade. He’s a lame horse and the right thing to do with a lame horse is to put him down. The GOP/Conservative attacks on Akin are not coming from people who are against the pro-life movement, against fundamentalist Christians or against the Tea Party. They are coming from people who are against stupid. Any MO Republican , no matter how stridently pro-life, right wing or Christian will beat McCaskill unless he is Todd Akin.
Should I see a doctor? Or an exorcist?
Who would've thought that anyone could mention Akin and Milton Friedman in the same column? (While misrepresenting Friedman at the same time).
Thanks, Pat. Morons like you don't come along vwery often.
“Yet anyone reading his statement knows what Akin meant. He was saying that in an actual rape – from what doctors have told him – the likelihood of pregnancy is rare.”
I thought he meant that, in a “legitimate” rape, pregnancy is rare because the body magically determines whether a woman has consented in a sexual encounter and shuts down her monthly cycle down when it knows that the woman has been violated.
But that would have been stupid psuedo-scientific garbage, not something PAT BUCHANAN would ever make apologies for, so obviously I got it wrong.
Pat misses the point.
This is not about Akin’s position on abortion. Had Akin simply restated his position without implying victims of rape can magically stop getting pregnant, we’d be talking about Missouri being a pickup and not a loss for our side.
This is not about Akin’s position but his comments relating to rape, which were idiotic and are 10X more damaging than the ‘macaca’ comment that hurt Allen in 2006. Pat would have been on-target to compare with Allen, and Sharron Angle, and Christine ODonnell, and not that WORDS HAVE IMPACT and gaffe-prone GOP politicians hurt themselves and others.
he calls it “hysteria over one egregious gaffe” ... there is no hysteria. There is the simple logical consequence that unfortunately for Republicans, unlike Democrats, foot-in-mouth disease is fatal. Akin’s comment was so ignorant and insensitive, he is now at a point where he is going to certainly lose to Claire McCaskill.
It’s not hysteria buy cold-blooded calculation that the best thing is to get Akin out of there. He’s like a quarterback who is throwing interceptions. ... for the sake of the team, bench him and get a better player.
McCaskill knows this too so she is begging to have him stay. Akin granted her wish and the Democrats are thrilled.
Great article! Full of good common sense from a true independent conservative analyst who isn’t a sycophantic Republican party hack like Romney and his merry marching band of RINObots.
Check this out. What does it indicate about the pathology of Pat Buchanan that he can mention the trade deficit and Akin in the same piece?