“OK, aside Bush and friends name calling smear tactics to get Buchanan out of the Republican Party primary, just what tangible basis do you have for such an accusation?”
Do you recall President Reagan laying a wreath at the German military cemetery in Bitburg? That’s where the “Pat SS Buchanan” attack got started. There were SS troops buried there, and the Buchanan-haters attributed the idea of the wreath-laying and the selection of Bitburg to Buchanan, which they claim as evidence of his Nazi sympathies. I’m pretty sure I once heard Dennis Prager repeat the charge.
In fact the wreath ceremony and Bitburg were chosen by Michael Deaver, who served as Reagan’s advance man. Buchanan had nothing to do with the event, but since the Buchanan-haters hate him and not Michal Deaver, Buchanan gets to be the Nazi. As did President Reagan at the time, something conveniently forgotten by the crowd that likes to throw around charges of Nazism.
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