Posted on 05/23/2025 8:00:19 AM PDT by Angelino97
Pat was ok but he was very anti Israel/Jewish.
God bless “Pitch fork” Pat.
Globalist schill Hugh Hewitt most triggered.....
I used to love Pat on the shows “CrossFire” and the “McLaughlin Group” back before CNN and PBS went all lefty all the time.
Proud to have voted for Pat in the ‘92 and ‘96 GOP primaries.
Pat believed that America first really meant America first.
Lol.
Unfortunately, you are right. I always agreed with Pat’s policies but with respect to Israel he always seemed to have a reason why Israel should not do what it needed to do to defend itself.
He really got Eleanor Clift wound up mad...lol
Pat was not anti Israel. He just believed that American taxpayers should not be subsidizing it’s Zionist policies.
Pat was a faithful Catholic, but he also respected those who worshiped the God of Abraham. This did not include self-loathing Bolshevik Jews, of which the vast majority are in the USA.
Here are some Buchanan quotes from the ADL—obviously not a friend of Buchanan:
https://www.adl.org/resources/profile/pat-buchanan-his-own-words
If you read them carefully he is calling out everybody for their hypocrisy on a wide range of topics—including sensitive ones nobody wants to address.
I don't recall Pat ever saying that Israel should, or should not, do anything.
He only wanted Israel to do it on its own dime.
And he didn't want the U.S. engaging in Mideast Wars, including the Gulf War and Iraq War.
I ran as a Buchanan delegate in the bootleg Louisiana GOP caucus, February, 1996. While I didn’t win my race, Pat got a majority of the Louisiana delegates, and took Phil Gramm out of the race.
I was lucky to get to know Pat and his sister Bay a little bit, and was proud to have fought for him.
https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9602/06/caucus.results/index.shtml
Is. He’s 86, but I assume there’s a reason he no longer makes public statements.
Pat was not anti Israel. He just believed that American taxpayers should not be subsidizing it’s Zionist policies
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BINGO! And American taxpayers are still giving billions away to Israel every year. Let’s hope Trump changes all that
He didn't start out that way... The school of hard knocks and firsthand experiences changed his point of view. And when the ADF and associated groups and individuals tried to “cancel” him before that was a widespread phenomenon... he gave back as good as he got.
This is an example of what happens when people and groups try to shut down a strong personality using every dirty trick in the book after the person made relevant observations and conclusions that were found to be distasteful to the accepted consensus.
Buchanan had many Jewish friends, associates and staff. He was never accused of discriminating against individuals, but he was not afraid to speak the truth about history or current events regardless of whether it was politically correct or not.
Rabbi Yahuda Levin of New York, served as one of Buchanan's four campaign co-chairmen during his presidential campaign and took a lot of heat for this. He said, “I don't have to be married to him or believe everything he says” and then went on to defend Buchanan as a person and his policies.
One of my closest friends from childhood is Jewish and he can rail on and on about issues that we disagree on and I still love him. I was once talking to a guy who was sitting next to me on an airline flight. I told him that my friend was always very sensitive to any form of Jewish stereotype but that the older he got the more he resembled them. This was meant to be a humorous observation. But the person I was speaking to turned out to be a Jewish lawyer and he took great offense to this innocuous observation. He condemned me and said that I was a bad person.
This foot in the mouth moment was actually quite humorous to me and this guy worked himself into a tizzy over basically nothing. Jewish people love to argue which is a trait in my own heritage, but in this case the other person despite his great intelligence seemingly had no ability for any form of introspection.
Tony Brown’s Journal on PBS was the ‘intellectual black’. He called him a racist. That was too much for me. Then ‘good guy’ Bernie said the same thing about Trump-not so good. These people try to nip these up-comers with that language and sometimes it works. It was used against Goldwater in ‘64 and it took 16 years to get over it with the election of Reagan.
Goldwater’s funeral was noteworthy for the respect he received. Buchanan’s will be the same-that is if the MSM will cover it.
You do realize that he is still around and his writings and point of view are the basis for much of the America first agenda? I do hope that President Trump is able to give him the recognition that he deserves.
and yet he never became president.
Trump is President and he has already achieved more than any President this century and beyond.
MAGA🇺🇸
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