Yeah, but they don't all pretend to be so all-knowing. Buchanan is a smart guy who makes some really boneheaded comments and pronouncements, yet he doesn't have much to back it up.
True. For instance, in this article, he states neo-cons are not conservative because they're "Wilsonian interventionists." Odd that he overlooks the interventionism of Republican president McKinley, clearly a conservative, in the Spanish-American War. Then there were the interventions of Ronald Reagan in places like Grenada and Nicaragua. What would Pat call Reagan? Another Wilsonian?