Pat is of course right, but he has been soundly rejected by the little uninformed Republican primary voters, who never seem to get much right.
Pat is actually right about several things. But most Heartland Republicans are "Bible-thumpers" (as their enemies call them) and they will never vote for someone who is anti-Israel.
Even leaving aside the Objective Truth of the Torah and the Jewish G-d (which is really all that matters in the long run), consider that American Protestantism has no ancient history to look back on other than Biblical Israel. Biblical Israel is the only (lehavdil) "chrstendom" it has never known. European chrstians have two thousand years of history and heroes--American chrstians have Saul, David, and Solomon (among any number of other Hebrew names).
The "palaeo" Right may rant and rave about "the rooted people," but unlike in Europe, Middle America's religious roots are in 'Eretz Yisra'el. They don't allegorize it or turn it into chrstological parables the way Europeans do. Jerusalem means Jerusalem--it does not mean Rome or Berlin or Washington DC.
Another of Pat's problems is a common one among "palaeos": his religion is civilizational. Civilizational religion is not fundamentalist religion. It is pragmatic and utilitarian, considered merely a glue that holds together an ethnic group or civilization and ties them to their land. However right wing the politics of civilizationists might be, they are atheists at heart. Like liberals, their moral/ethical system is based on something other than the Decrees of G-d. And however much the positions of "palaeos" may appeal to Middle America, there is the stench of brimstone about them for just this reason.