Posted on 06/19/2025 8:48:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pat Buchanan took no prisoners.
The now-retired columnist and former presidential candidate, who is still among us, had an aim to defend America's superiority. And if his political nemeses got their feelings hurt during his riddling, tough.
Sound familiar? Sure. Patrick J. Buchanan was Donald Trump before the president’s rocket ride to the White House.
America First. Keep countries from screwing us on trade. Speak English. Build the wall. Stop the invading hordes from defacing our country’s mighty culture.
Those were Buchanan staples before he quit writing and commenting on TV a couple of years ago.
Now if he’s up to it at age 86, he should be up for a titanic reward: the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Trump should be honored to deliver the first such medal of his second term to one of the truest patriots of the past half century.
Buchanan would be receiving it in the White House, where he was a communications master for Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Pat tried to win the presidency in his own right three times, but he was too far ahead of his time, especially on the immigration front. Trump grabbed his baton two decades later, rebranded it MAGA and won. Now he can thank Buchanan by placing the top civilian medal around his neck.
I would pay to hear Buchanan’s acceptance speech. He’s that humorous and compelling.
It would bring back memories of his days at MSNBC, where his brilliance forced the liberal channel to can him. He simply got a promotion to my namesake channel, Fox News, where we caught the deepest, cleverest commentator in the biz.
Here's the truth among libs: They paid attention to him. Why? Because Pat Buchanan could flat-out write. His prose was entertaining like no one else in the newspaper, magazine,...
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Agreed.
Saint Patrick of Buchananomics!!
Pat Buchanan ran on several policies David Duke ran on when he became a Louisiana State House Representative taking over former senator David Vitter’s old house seat. One of those were Welfare to Workfare, especially for able bodied blacks.
A great man whom I respect deeply!
Back when he won the New Hampshire primary I thought he would go all the way. That was back when the state hadn’t fallen all the way into the Democrat-Socialist cesspool.
RE: Pat Buchanan ran on several policies David Duke ran on
If Hitler says that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the west, should people disagree with Der Fuhrer because he’s an evil genocidal maniac?
He sure did.
He has unapologetically taken unpopular positions that leave him open to attacks as being racist, antisemitic or whatever. Back in the 80’s or 90’s he raised a stink about deporting a man accused of being a WWII SS officer who had been at some concentration camp. As I recall, he believed the evidence was very thin and he questioned the authenticity of a document. He also said that the accused had not received sufficient due process. Naturally there were insinuations that he was antisemitic.
He was interviewed by Jim Lehrer on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report about the accused man. I recall Lehrer asking him why he was making an issue of it, in a kind of incredulous tone.
Written in past tense....is PJB still among the living?
RE: Written in past tense....is PJB still among the living?
READ THE ARTICLE.
(Written in past tense....is PJB still among the living?)
Yes!
One of many reasons I literally have no time for Tucker Carlson.
The nincompoops who ran Pat Buchanan, Joe Sobran, and a handful of others out of the “conservative movement” are largely responsible for the rise of “wokism”. They silenced some of the most powerful voices against it.
Here is an editorial that Donald Trump wrote on Buchanan in 1999 but I think he has changed his mind now.
Buchanan Is Too Wrong to Correct
By DONALD J. TRUMP
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-31-op-28208-story.html
Nothing in recent politics makes me happier than seeing what was once labeled "extreme" (building a wall, deporting illegals) by the GOP establishment is now embraced as common sense. We have the writing and activism of people like Pat Buchanan to thank for that.
Back when he ran for President I remember reading a newspaper candidate survey.
Ne question was “Do you recycle?”
“No.”
My kind of guy.
Run, Pat, Run
He was great on the McLaughlin Group. RIP to a great American.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/patbuchananreformpartyacceptance.htm
I read this and I still weep. We missed an opportunity with Patrick Buchanan.
The day he announced that he would run under Perot’s party I went to see him speak at a rally. My daughter came along. She was nine or so.
Along the drive I told her about politician parties and that the guy we were going to see is part of a third party.
I asked if she knew the names of the two main parties.
She said “Um, Republicans and communists?”
Fortunately we were at a red light because I couldn’t breathe for a minute.
It’s amazing how smart my daughter is.
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