As far as I know, Pat is against the socialist welfare spending Bush II is cramming down my throat. He spoke out, nearly alone on the right, against this latest Trotskyite Internationalist war that Bush II connived us into.
And c'mon, you can't impugn PJB with "cosying up to Marxists" when the neo-cons run the GOP and as unrepentant Trotskyites.
I freely admit that PJB ran a disastrous campaign in 2000 that was frankly so bad that one must suspect his sincerity.
I'm a member of the Conservative Party now. To paraphrase Lincoln, we should stand with a man while he's right and part with him when he goes wrong. Clearly, the GOP leadership has gone so far wrong that Lincoln himself would instruct those loyal to his ideas to abandon the GOP and find something else. The first order of business is to stop lending active support to our enemies - represented by the Karl Roves of the world.
Isn't this nicer than ad hominem attacks?
Of course he does. He knows he can say anything he wants without any possibility he would have to put his rhetoric into practice. That is the entire lure of 3rd party candidates. They can promise heaven on earth and never have to deliver it. They do make a nice living losing though.