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Buchanan: Immigration Will Prevent Pendulum From Swinging Back
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/04/2008 4:39:42 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Pat Buchanan just snatched the security blanket from conservatives and stomped on it. Contemplating the prospect of an electoral loss, some conservatives are consoling themselves by imagining that the political pendulum will soon start swinging back their way.

Buchanan doesn't think so, and his very first words on the matter this morning explain why: "demography is destiny." Buchanan offered his analysis during the opening segment of today's Morning Joe.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americandream; immigration; joescarborough; patbuchanan
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dear Pat,

I voted for you in the 2000 primaries...but don’t console me yet. I strongly believe that McCain will not only win, but that he will win decisively.

signed

A Patriot


21 posted on 11/04/2008 4:47:48 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Buchanan’s pronouncement comforts me because his track record as a pundit and forecaster is wrong far more often than he is right,

I tend to ignore Pat Buchanan.


22 posted on 11/04/2008 4:48:39 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There is some truth to what he says. I not sure that the damage can be undone regardless of who wins this election.


23 posted on 11/04/2008 4:48:52 AM PST by I_hate_politicians
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Immigration to a country in a deep recession—probably not unless Obama brings the muslim hordes in


24 posted on 11/04/2008 4:48:59 AM PST by uncbob (es wouold realize that but iguess their arrogance)
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To: muawiyah
Buchanan is a prominent nonreproducer.

For a married man who continuously talks about demographics and who claims to be a good Catholic, and who moreover is quite well off, he has not a single biological or adopted child.

25 posted on 11/04/2008 4:49:17 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Vaquero

Keep the faith.


26 posted on 11/04/2008 4:49:41 AM PST by I_hate_politicians
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In northern NJ a lot of the GOP phone bank folks are hispanic. Plenty of cubans and Venezuelans. they have a strong pro life, pro family, small business culture. When I see these people I am reminded of the extended families of the italian immigrants I sprang from. I wouldn’t count conservatism out just yet with these folks. They HATE Castro and Chavez...and are not fooled by the sweet nothings of BO and the liberal wasp crowd around him.


27 posted on 11/04/2008 4:50:50 AM PST by mick
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To: kabar
25 million illegals makes it ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - soon to be LEGAL Shamnesty. Welcome to third world balkanized s*&thole status, America.


28 posted on 11/04/2008 4:51:03 AM PST by TADSLOS (Duncan Hunter Is Now One Vote Closer to POTUS!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Buchanan doesn't think so, and his very first words on the matter this morning explain why: "demography is destiny."

Many people that emmigrate to the US do it for political or economic reasons. They can be fertile ground for the seeds of conservatism. The challenge to conservatives will be to package the message in a way that will be culturally appropriate. If the Republicans can do this, then conservatism can return.

29 posted on 11/04/2008 4:51:50 AM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Also, look for:

Obama to naturalize all illegals and give them voting rights before 2012.

A massive influx of Muslims from Africa who will also be given voting rights by 2012.

Nationwide election day voting registration.

Elimination of all voter ID laws.

I won't say it will be completely impossible for the GOP to ever win another election, but I'm not looking for it to happen any time soon.

30 posted on 11/04/2008 4:52:10 AM PST by comebacknewt
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To: TADSLOS

Don’t forget to blame the current Coyote in Chief, Jorge Arbusto.


31 posted on 11/04/2008 4:53:03 AM PST by LiveFree99
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To: mick; All

Don’t interfere with the wrist cutting: There’s no room for you contrary facts here.


32 posted on 11/04/2008 4:53:22 AM PST by Cedric
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To: comebacknewt

Puleeeze!


33 posted on 11/04/2008 4:54:47 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric

Bush’s fault.


34 posted on 11/04/2008 4:56:21 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: raybbr
“The American culture is being slowly supplanted by third world cultures all over the place. Mostly hispanic. There is NO expectation of assimilation anymore.”

Yup. If Obambi gets in and The Dims increase their hold on Congress, The US will be a third-world country in a generation.

On Halloween there were a great many Mexican kids trick-or-treating, and their mothers, who stood on the sidewalk, were invariably pregnant with another one. And ALL of those kids jabbered away in Spanish; not a one said anything in English to anyone. And greedy? There is no word for it. While American kids took one piece of candy from the bowl presented to them, the Mexican kids stuck their whole hand in the bowl and grabbed a fistful.

35 posted on 11/04/2008 4:58:27 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Buchannan is right...tho not for the reasons he asserts. This about this...in 2012, what republican will run? This about who and what this individual will have to be to overcome the obvious racial/ethnic challenges...really think about it.

Woe to us who either never read Atlas Shrugged or refused to believe it could really happen here.

36 posted on 11/04/2008 4:58:33 AM PST by Logic n' Reason ("Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.")
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To: wideawake
>>>>>>Buchanan is a prominent nonreproducer. For a married man who continuously talks about demographics and who claims to be a good Catholic, and who moreover is quite well off, he has not a single biological or adopted child

That is the sin of calumny, since you impute immoral acts to Buchanan for which you have no evidence, and moreover question his standing in the Church, again without evidence. (You also imply a moral duty to adopt children, which does not exist). Your hatred for Buchanan--who indeed does to go to Mass and receive the sacrarments regulary--is as morally disfiguring as it is rooted in slander.

37 posted on 11/04/2008 4:59:00 AM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does anyone even care what he says about anything?


38 posted on 11/04/2008 4:59:17 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (AMERICANS-PREPARE FOR GLORY!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Kind of lame that they tried to tag him with the xenophoobic label, but then again I guess that no single speech has done more to alienate indies, mods and liberatarian minded conservatives than the whole “Take Back America” throwdown.


39 posted on 11/04/2008 4:59:22 AM PST by incredulous joe (Carry on Regardless!!)
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To: muawiyah

I’m not sure that partisan affiliation is necessarily genetic.


40 posted on 11/04/2008 4:59:48 AM PST by truthfreedom
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