GOP seeks absolution from Rev. Al

Townhall.com ^ | 1-3-03 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[DWar]

Will someone in the GOP PLEEEEZE grow a spine !!!

[Admin Moderator]

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[MJY1288]

Looks like Pat is living up to his usual doom and gloom, The absolute drivel he has been spewing lately is just one more reason why I'm glad he is no longer in the GOP.

Pat (Death of the West) Buchanan isn't satisfied with single handedly destroying the Reform Party, he wants to continue his scoarched earth (The Glass is Always Half Empty) approach to every issue he feels the need to comment on.

Pat needs to retire and shut his pie hole

[lainie]

When a jury acquitted four white officers in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo, whom police thought had pulled a gun, Sharpton was there to stir up mob protests.

And let us not forget, legally-trained Hillary! pronounced the policemen quote-unquote murderers before the trial even began.

The real question is why does the majority leader of the U.S. Senate feel he must meet with a racial demagogue and shakedown artist from Harlem who cannot deliver to the GOP a single vote?

For the same reason the GOP let Trent take one for the team. Not that he shouldn't have known better.

Is the GOP really in need of moral absolution from Al Sharpton?

They seem to think so.

Your plea for a backbone is correct. I'm not holding my breath, though.

[lainie]

Geeze I could NOT disagree more.

[MJY1288]

OK, I have this question for you, <p.Have you ever heard a single positive thing ever uttered by Pat Buchanan. he looks like he is eating a lemon 24/7 and his doom and gloom outlook for everything explains his enormous success

[Jorge]

Looks like Pat is living up to his usual doom and gloom, The absolute drivel he has been spewing lately is just one more reason why I'm glad he is no longer in the GOP.

I agree. This is nothing but more of his negative *sound the alarm!* hysteria. He is pathetic.

I think his end of the world outlook is even effecting his appearance...his face is beginning to look like it was just used to mop the floor.

[AmishDude]

Perhaps you're not seeing what is quite obvious to me. The right reverend Al is running for president. It is a laughable proposition. Frist meets with him, strokes his ego and lets him have a photo op after the meeting.

Al will get precisely zero (he only wants publicity anyway). Frist gets points for meeting with him. The Republicans give Al some small additional measure of legitimacy as well as a boost of confidence.

Anything that props up Al Sharpton as a power broker in the Democratic party is A-OK for Republicans.

[MJY1288]

LOL, I doubt he has too many friends in this world. I can't imagine who would want to associate with such a miserable person. I believe his miserable existance has his wife looking like him more and more with each passing day. They probably sit alone each night and fight over who is more negative :-)

[gop_gene]

I agree--What is it with this guy? Everywhere he goes, rain follows. He's like a black hole sucking all the sunshine and light out of the universe, nothing but negativity ad nauseum. Nothing wrong with constructive criticism, but Buchanan's seems to be spouting all of the latter, not the former. Robert Novak, I notice, is getting to be this way too--wonder if the two of them hang out together?, if not, they should.

[xm177e2]

I'm confused. What exactly has the GOP given Al Sharpton? How has the GOP capitulated?

[Deb]

Sharpton isn't running for president. He's running to get bought off by the Democrats to not run for president.

Assuming the Jesse Jackson starting position as the Democrat spoiler for the "black vote", Al is just waiting for his pay-day to not run.

It's an old con, but it works every four years.

[xm177e2]

Yes! The bigger the mess Al makes in the next Presidential primary, the better.

[Jorge]

The real question is why does the majority leader of the U.S. Senate feel he must meet with a racial demagogue and shakedown artist from Harlem who cannot deliver to the GOP a single vote? Is the Republican Party that full of guilt?

Is the GOP really in need of moral absolution from Al Sharpton?

No...my bet is that the GOP is wisely trying to give Al Sharpton some political credibility at precisely the same time the Democrats just wish he would go away.

If Sharpton runs in the Democrat primaries, it promises to produce enough racial vitriol within the party to compromise black support for the Dem candidate.

And if Sharpton runs as an Independant he will suck the black vote away from the Democrats the way Ralph Nadar sucked the Green vote away from Gore in 2000.

Either way, the GOP has everything to gain and nothing to lose by enhancing Sharpton's visibility at this point.

But Buchanan, the loser is far too lost in his negative outlook to see the clever political tactics of the GOP..who by the way have managed to gain control of the White House, the Senate and House of Reps..without Pat's help.

[AmishDude]

Sharpton isn't running for president. He's running to get bought off by the Democrats to not run for president.

Excellent point. And his price just went up.

[cactusSharp]

finally someone who agrees with me about Buchananbutt entirely

[DWar]

Your hatred for Buchanan blinds you to the truth of what he says in this editorial. I agree Pat has "gone off the deep end" on many issues in the last 5 years (maybe more). But he is spot on in criticizing the kowtowing to this race baiting, propaganda generating, publicity whore. Someone, somewhere needs to stand up and tell the truth about Harlem Hustler Al like O'Reilly has done with Rappin' Jessie Jackson. But the truth needs to be shouted over and over again and again until these charlatans are driven from the public stage.

[Deb]

You're exactly right.

This is the usual Buchanan BS. He doesn't have a single firsthand quote from Frist or anyone who was there and yet he spends the entire column propagandizing against the Republicans and their "capitulation".

Maybe someone will ask him to justify capitulating to Marxist, Black-Power-lezbo Lenora Fulani. Certainly none of the hypocrite pitchforkers at FR will.

[lainie]

OK, I have this question for you,

Have you ever heard a single positive thing ever uttered by Pat Buchanan. he looks like he is eating a lemon 24/7 and his doom and gloom outlook for everything explains his enormous success

I don't see why, if he's commenting on scary negatives, anyone would expect him to sound upbeat.

How he looks.. lemons.. what? And "his doom and gloom outlook for everything explains his enormous success" -- ?

OH!! that's sarcasm.

I don't know why someone's false positivity would mean anything. The reverse is one of the reasons I can't stomach Katie Couric.

[lainie]

Okay. I'll mull that for awhile and see how it tastes later. The only thing I'm afraid of:

Al will get precisely zero (he only wants publicity anyway).

I hope you're right, but I fear he'll (they'll, she'll, whichever'll) get a lot.