pat buchanan on bill maher...made some sense

[silverpatronus]

his position on iraq and his realistic take on the campaigns to date. i found myself nodding my head at most of what he was saying. and i'm realising more and more that all kerry has to do to win this election is show a little spine and some daylight between himself and GWB. so get on kerry's ass people!

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Pat's pissed

He's making the rounds for his book, but he's making a sound argument about the neocons hijacking our government. I said to my daughter's principal at the end of last school year, "It's not Bush as much as it is the people he has around him." He said he hadn't thought about it that way and that I was right!

Matthews asked Pat who he'll vote for. He said he "can't" vote for Kerry, but hasn't decided whether or not he'll vote for Bush. If not Bush, then the Constitution Party candidate (which it sounded like he was more likely to go for). Either way, it ain't a vote for Bush!

[madmax]

2. I don't know a lot about Buchanan

but, I think I could have suffered with him as president over *bush. I've heard people call him a Nazi but, bush seems more like a Nazi than Pat. I'd take the honest devil over the phoney any day.

[jdj]

3. Has anyone else noticed

that as far as "making some sense" goes, the repukes are on rotation?

They like to shake us up a bit. Matthews goes, "hey Pat, it's your night to 'make some sense' I did it last night." Buchanan responds "ah gee, I did it on the Sunday shows, let Scarborough be the patsy tonight"...

I think it's a scam, I need to chart it out and see if I can predict who's turn it is to "make some sense" next.

[Tom Kitten]

4. Yes

I do see them rotate and I do see them spin as they make their rounds! Circular thinking as usual, with a downward spiral...Watching them trying to revolve things makes me recoil...

[Thurston Howe IV]

5. I don't think this applies to Pat

Buchanan has been anti-Iraq war from the get-go. He has consistently and forcefully argued against it, as well as the "Neocon" agenda. Check him out at antiwar.com: http://antiwar.com/pat/

I've been reading him since the beginning of the year, and generally agreeing with what he's been saying. So, whatever he was saying that caused the nodding of heads, he meant. He's a populist as well, so he may have said some things about the economy that you might agree with as well. However, when you least expect it, he'll turn around and rant about immigration and abortion, and then you'll remember -- "Oh yeah, this is Pat Buchanon."

[Thurston Howe IV]

6. A true believer

BTW, Pat can be categorized as a bona fide "paleo-conservative" while Bush and Cheney are basically crony capitalists who fake the "values" thing in order to get the votes they need to maintain power.

[wuushew]

7. I saw him on MSNBC the other night

talking about protection of American jobs. I don't agree that tariffs are the best answer, but he was making economic sense until he lapsed into one of his anti-Mexican tirades.