PAT (Buchanan) JOINS BUSH WHACKERS - (to release anti-Bush book in Aug)

[BadGimp]

PAT JOINS BUSH WHACKERS

June 17, 2004 -- JOINING the ranks of Bush-bashing books is one from a most unlikely source.
The Thomas Dunne imprint of St. Martin's Press has agreed to pay around $500,000 to Pat Buchanan for an anti-Dubya book to be called "Where the Right Went Wrong."

The proto-conservative will blast the Bush Administration for behaviors both domestic and foreign. He is particularly scornful of the U.S. foreign policy that has "ignited a war of civilizations" with the Islamic world.

Publishing insiders say Buchanan's thoughts on the 43rd president are surprisingly out of character.

"They could put Michael Moore on the jacket of this book, and people would believe he wrote it," one said.

The deal for world, audio and serial rights was made with Buchanan's longtime agent, Fredricka Friedman.

"Where the Right Went Wrong" is scheduled to go on sale in early August, to coincide with the start of the Republican National Convention — at which Buchanan will be a commentator for MSNBC.

http://www.nypost.com/business/23177.htm

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wow

When Pat Buhanan riffs on the Bush cabal I get goose bumps.

[Beetwasher]

1. Bwhahahaha! Run Pat Run! Third Party!!!

Come on!!

[ElementaryPenguin]

4. You're right, BW! How I wish he would!

He'd probably take 1/3rd of Bushler's core votes right now - maybe even more!

:toast:

[burythehatchet]

2. yeeeeeeehawwwwwwww

[grasswire]

3. oh mama!

Pat is the ultimate D.C. insider. Born and bred. This is excellent!

[hlthe2b]

5. Could this be the start of a "pile on?" Methinks the worm has turned....

Run, Pat Run! (of course I won't support you, but....)

I Do give the guy his due... he stands by his principles right or wrong....

[Walt Starr]

32. I wouldn't sign a Nader petition

BUT I'D COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR PAT!!!!

[DarkPhenyx]

39. It's called integrity.

It's waht you ahve left when you stand by your principles even when it isn't in your best interest.

You may not like him but he has it.

[kysrsoze]

51. Pat's been against the war for a long-time

When Buchanan and Press was still on, he used to trash Bush a lot about what they were trying to pull. I don't agree with some of his views, but at the same time he has OODLES more integrity than anyone in the WH.

[Canuckistanian]

6. I'm now officially proud of the man who gave me my name.

Slamming Shrub, devastating the neocons, who knew?
:bounce:

[hlthe2b]

7. You were named after Pat? OR

was Pat Buchanan your daddy? :evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

44. No, the name "Canuckistanian"

Right after 9/11 sometime, PB used the term "Soviet Canuckistan" to refer to Canada.
And about that "who's your daddy" crack, well, them's fightin' words!

[hlthe2b]

62. tee hee hee!

I'll have to call you Pat Canuckistanian from now on! LOL

[MallRat]

29. Buchanan wrote the Muskie Canuck letter?

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

45. Not familiar with that letter

See post above

[MallRat]

56. Wow. Turns out I may have been right.

Nixon's "Dirty Tricks" against Political Opponents

Buchanan was not just another aide when it came to dirty tricks -- he was one of the leaders in pushing them. According to John Dean, one of Nixon's top aides, Buchanan relentlessly pushed underhanded methods, talking H.R. Haldeman's assistant Gordon Strachan into it, and even popularized the very phrase "political hardball." His view was that opponents would probably nail you, so you should hit them first, harder.

According to Anthony Lukas' book "Nightmare", Buchanan took part in Nixon's "Dirty Tricks" another way -- editing a phony pamphlet pretending to be from a liberal Democrats group that attacked Muskie. (His assistant Ken Khachigian wrote it.) Many investigators also think Buchanan or Khachigian wrote the infamous "Canuck letter", a forged letter claiming Muskie has slandered French Canadians as "Cannocks" (sic). The Canuck letter was one of two slams against Muskie that caused the Democratic front runner to break down crying in frustration at a New Hampshire news conference, crippling his candidacy.

http://www.realchange.org/buchanan.htm#watergate

-MR

[bluestateguy]

8. Go Pat Go!

[Tim4319]

9. What will Hannity say?

Pat Buchanan's attack is politicized, and he is doing this for his own political gain.

[Shopaholic]

14. I don't care why he's doing it--

just that he's doing it! Go get 'em Pat! :spank:

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. I bet a large portion of Pat's ire

is directed at Bush and his decidedly pro-Israel views.

Not that I disagree with him in that instance, but he is an out-and-out anti semite.

Still, its good to have someone with as much conservative credibility as him bash the chimp.

[mistertrickster]

17. What evidence do you have that he's anti-Jewish?

Just wondering . . .

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. try this

http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/buchanan.html


There are plenty of examples to go around. I don't think its a secret. Why do you think such a big deal was made out of all those Jewish votes going to Pat in Florida in 2000?

[southlandshari]

63. I'm no Buchanan apologist, but...

half of the entries under the Buchanan "On Jews" section at this link relate to Israel specifically and not to the Jewish faith in general (the first two and next to last entries in particular; the last entry in the section is no worse than GWB comments on other religions - it is still reprehensible, mind you). I have plenty of Israeli friends who complain that the pro-Israel lobby in American does nothing to forward the true national interests of their country, much less their faith.

I will never endorse anti-semitism in any form (being married to a Semite myself!). But I have appreciated Buchanan's lone voice criticizing Israeli (NOT Jewish) actions that violate international law and basic human rights over the past few years.

[Eloriel]

23. Historically true.

I haven't heard anything from him on the subject recently, but his anti-Semitism is pretty well known. That's NOT to characterize any criticism against Sharon and Likudniks as anti-Semitism, either (if that's what you're getting at). That's an entirely different matter to me.

BTW, for those who wonder where that "criticism of Israel = anti-Semitism" meme came from, here's a little link I like to haul out every chance I get (and the whole article is well worth reading!):


Halper: Yes. Anti-Semitism feeds on the idea that Israel is a victim. The Foreign Ministry of Israel invented a new form of anti-Semitism in the last few years called the 'New anti-Semitism,' and they then found some professors willing to give it some academic credibility. The New anti-Semitism that is now being spread all over says that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism, period. And it has been very effective.

http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/module.php?mod=book&op=print&id=806

[kskiska]

40. Hey, now, don't pile on Pat. His dad's an Auschwitz survivor.

Got drunk one night and fell off the guard tower.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Sweet!

Go on Pat!

:bounce:

[UpInArms]

12. it is definitely an upside down world

when I find myself in agreement with Pat Buchanan.

Politics definitely makes for strange bedfellows. :crazy:

[4_Legs_Good]

13. Conventional wisdom says Pat was Deep Throat

There's more to him than meets the eye.

david

[yellowcanine]

34. I don't think so. Not Pat's style. He would have gone public first. He

was a rabid Nixon defender in front of the select committee. Could have been a cover but again - not Pat's style.

[Cyrano]

15. Well, here's hoping the freepers read it

but let's not go overboard on Buchanan. He still thinks people like us are commie/pinko scum and he probably still celebrates Hitler's birthday every year.

[mistertrickster]

16. I kept telling people that under PB's bs TV persona, where he tries to

imitate a smarter Rush Limbaugh, he's a libertarian.

I got totally dissed last time I posted that, but it looks like I was right after all, heh.

[tom_paine]

18. Say what you will about ol' Pat. He is NOT a Bushevik

He might have dodged the Vietnam War in a Cowardly fashion, I may not agree with much of what he said.

But he is putting his Country before his Party in this case.

And ofr that I have nothing but respect. Only Nazis, Soviets, and Bushevik don't do that. (well, a few others, to but you get the idea)

[Eloriel]

25. He was also against the war. Another "good on him." n/t

[Kahuna]

19. Who wants to spearhead a "Draft Pat" movement?

:evilgrin:

[comsymp]

30. KERRY-BUCHANAN '04!!!

:evilgrin:

[leftynyc]

49. I think you've hit on the ONLY situation where

I wouldn't vote for Kerry.

[comsymp]

52. LOL, bet I could do better- how 'bout THIS bumpersticker:

Kerry/Bush
Everybody Wins!

[arlib]

54. I saw a good one recently....

...it said:

"GROW YOUR OWN DOPE....
PLANT A BUSH"

Priceless.

[comsymp]

55. Love it

nt

[Solidarity]

60. Why Not?

Why not? "Anybody But Bush"!

Or should that be "Nobody But Kerry"!:-)

[David__77]

20. Buchanan made a costly error in 2000.

He had the opportunity, which I expected him to take, to really decimate the neo-conservatives coalesced around Bush. He did not do so, fearful of Gore. What an error... Interestingly, a Gore presidency would have been much better in some ways for the real, non-"neo," conservative movement.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

57. actually, pat was having health problems in 2000

cancer, i belive-that, combined with the fight with hagelin over the reform party matching funds, crippled what would have been a strong third party effort on the right

[wryter2000]

22. Hoo-boy

I'm glad, but I'm not buying that one. He'll never get any of my $$$.

[skypilot]

24. Just imagine all the anti-Bush books...

...that will come out after this prick is out of office. If Bush thinks he's going to go down in history as some great US president he's got another thing coming.

[Tracer]

26. AFTER * is out of office???

I can't count the number of anti-smirk books that are out there right now.

And I've actually grown tired of reading them! I've got Woodward's book in my living room right now, and I don't think that I'll plow through it.

Thanks to DU, I know pretty much all there is to know about *.

[skypilot]

28. Yes, there are a staggering number...

...of anti-Bush books out there now but what I was thinking was that after he's out of office not only will there be even more but that all kinds of scandalous info that we don't have now will probably be in them. Not that there is any shortage of scandals now but just imagine when Bush is gone and folks in Washington start to feel that they can breathe a little easier. For every scandal we know about now there are probably at least three more that we don't know about. Just wait.

[Worst Username Ever]

33. Too bad neos don't read /eom

[Dogmudgeon]

27. Every little bit helps

I'm sure there are many, many conservatives who have many more Dark Nights of the Soul since Team Bush stormed the White House.

Hell, I've spoken to some of 'em!

There's nothing to bring Liberals and Conservatives together better than some real, fanatical, autocratic Fascists. Why do you think so many Democrats are pining for John McCain to run as Kerry's VP?

Cherish this political moment. Even as the juggernaut tramples on laws, morals, nations, and peoples, we have a truly rare opportunity to re-discover what America is all about, with our friends AND with those we'd normally be tussling with.

And that might be Bush's real "legacy".

--bkl
That, and requiring an extension to be added to the prison where here and his many cronies will be staying.

[Solidarity]

36. Buchanan Helping Nader "Take Away" Votes From Bush

Patrick Buchanan Interviewed Nader for The American Conservative magazine. Buchanan has obviously decided to help Nader "take away" votes from Bush in 2004.

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June 21, 2004 issue
The American Conservative

Ralph Nader: Conservatively Speaking

The long-time progressive makes a pitch for the disenfranchised Right.

Ralph Nader recently accepted Pat Buchanan’s invitation to sit down with us and explain why his third-party presidential bid ought to appeal to conservatives disaffected with George W. Bush. We think readers will be interested in the reflections of a man who has been a major figure in American public life for 40 years—and who now finds himself that rarest of birds, a conviction politician.

Pat Buchanan: Let me start off with foreign policy—Iraq and the Middle East. You have seen the polls indicating widespread contempt for the United States abroad. Why do they hate us?

Ralph Nader: First of all, we have been supporting despots, dictators, and oligarchs in all those states for a variety of purposes. We supported Saddam Hussein. He was our anti-Communist dictator until 1990. They think that we are on their backs, in their house, undermining their desire to overthrow their own tyrants.

TAC: You often mention corporations. What is the theory behind this or what are the alternatives to corporate economic power? I presume you are not talking about state ownership or socialism, or perhaps you are …

RN: Well, that is what representative government is for, to counteract the excesses of the monied interests, as Thomas Jefferson said. Because big business realizes that the main countervailing force against their excesses and abuses is government, their goal has been to take over the government, and they do this with money and politics. They do it by putting their top officials at the Pentagon, Treasury, and Federal Reserve, and they do it by providing job opportunities to retiring members of Congress. They have law firms that draft legislation and think-tanks that provide ready-made speeches. They also do it by threatening to leave the country. The quickest way to bring a member of Congress to his or her knees is by shifting industries abroad.

http://www.amconmag.com/2004_06_21/cover.html

[comsymp]

58. Hmmm, Nazis for Nader...

Has a nice ring to it~

[Kilroy003]

37. Amen to that...

GW is a uniter afterall.

[Occulus]

46. Wow, Bush* really *IS* a uniter!

Who'd a-thunk it?

[Walt Starr]

31. RUN PAT RUN!!!!

Let's get Pat to run!

[redqueen]

35. Bush-Party loyalists will start calling Pat a commie-loving traitor

Or something. Never could they ever consider that there might be real problems that need to be corrected in the Jesus adm... sorry, Bush administration.

[Just Me]

38. Oh, my,...this will definitely go on my list of "classics".

Pat can be such an ass,...but, at least he isn't f*ing crazy AND he is still "human" (rather than some kinda' "God-appointed" RW thingy).

Oh, Gawd,...I am just a rollin',...belly hurts,...this is great!!!

What a title: "Where the Right Went Wrong"!!!!

Wooooo Hoooooo!!!! :bounce:

[Tellurian]

42. And the book is due to come out at the time of the Republican Convention..

unbelievable!!!!

[radfringe]

41. so what label are the GOPers going to throw on Buchannon?

partisan? disgruntled? bitter? unpatriotic? marginal wingnut?

When will the GOPers actually debate an issue instead of sloughing it off? better yet - when will they take responsibility instead of blaming others?

[Tellurian]

43. they'll probably throw in a Judas or two... or thirty...

ducats of $ilver and and more..

[Just Me]

48. Oh,...you name it,...they will throw it at him.

I repent for ever doing a broad-stroke condemnation against Republicans *LOL*!!! I've always known that it takes all of us to create the best world. This administration threw me for a cynical loop.

[Solidarity]

50. They'll call him a ...........

"Naderite"!
:)

[namvet73]

47. Wow, the numbers are mounting.

There are so many anti-Bush books out there that they will need to come up with a new number in the Dewey Decimal system. Make it a negative number.

[TrogL]

53. My jaw dropped so far my cow-orkers called a dentist

I'm know Buchannan has his libertarian moments but this takes the cake.

I should go see what the Freepers think.

[Generator]

59. Pat is pissed

Shrubco has given fascism a bad name. Inept and so obviously never telling the truth, this is not the way to do it. The big lie has failed. (and thank GOD for that)

Also, he really hates the Mexicans and that "guest worker" programme sent him over the edge.

[Piperay]

61. Yippeeee

this is TERRIFIC, Go Pat Go...go get em! :bounce: :thumbsup:

[SiouxJ]

64. He's pissed that Shrub is now more of a religious fanatic

than he is. He used to get that spotlight and Shrub has stolen it from him.

[are_we_united_yet]

65. Scary to think

I'd be routing on Pat Buchanan. Scary indeed.