Oh boy. You really need a lesson on how propagandists misrepresent statements through selective quotation. Here's the selection from Pat's 1977 column, IN CONTEXT:
Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him. But Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path."
This is a direct quote from Historian John Toland's award-winning biography, Adolf Hitler. To claim that someone is a Hitler admirer for honestly evaluating Hitler's skills and intellect is idiotic.
Later in the same column Buchanan writes:
"Men like Chamberlain and Daladier needed a moral justification for their acts of weakness and betrayal… Almost alone among European statesmen, Churchill saw that – under the guise of restoring Germany to her rightful place among nations – Hitler was marching along the road toward a New Order where Western civilization would not survive. The vision lacking in the statesmen of ’37 appears lacking as well in the men of ’77."
Any idiot who can read can see that this column was no tribute to Hitler and expressed no admiration toward the evil genuis.
His outright and public denials of the holocaust's most gruesome extremes
Where has Buchanan denied the Holocaust?
Pat's insistence that we honor the nazi , jew-killer members of the SS
A lie. Pat never insisted on anything of the sort. All he did was support Reagan's decision to visit the Bitburg cemetary, and at no time during this visit did the Gipper honor any "Nazi, jew-killer members of the SS." I can't believe that someone on a conservative site would buy leftist propaganda about such a great conservative standard bearer as Reagan so uncritically.
If Pat is an anti-semite for supporting the Bitburg visit, than so is the greatest American president of the 20th century.
BTW, here is a good, even-handed account of what happened at Bitburg. Notice that Buchanan is nowhere mentioned.
To claim that someone is a Hitler admirer for honestly evaluating Hitler's skills and intellect is idiotic.
For many it is not idiotic; it is a calculated lie and smear. They know very well that most of the sheeple will never read and honestly evaluate what Buchanan actually wrote; hence their recklessness in throwing the Hitler/Nazi smear about.
In this regard most "conservatives" today are no different from liberals - to them, everyone who doesn't toe the line is a "Nazi", a "terrorist", or something somehow "unclean". Getting them to make distinctions other than "us" and "them" is mostly hopeless.
"Conservatives" have swallowed whole the myths which undergird the ruling elites; consequently they are incapable of true oppostion to these elites and their policies, even when they grasp what these are, which is seldom the case. In reality they are easily manipulated and easily herded sheeple.