Racial Purity, The Republican Way
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Pat Buchanan strikes again, in a chord sure to resonate with the racist Republican base, declaring that no, Virginia, the right isn’t concerned with immigration for any reason other than brown people coming across the border.
They can’t help themselves. But its better when they admit this stuff up front instead of hiding it behind code words as Republicans so often do.
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Drudge was hyping this the other day, just like he does with the Coulter/Malkin hate lit. I’m suprised a troll hasn’t jumped yet to shriek about Dems being the real racists yet, so let me get this out of the way: Social conservatives are the real racists. They always have been, and they always will be.
Oh Dugggerrrrr!! Another Bush lie! And this one’s pretty blatant! Better put your fanciest spinning dress on!
“White House aides say the president has read 60 books so far this year”
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060820/28presidency.htm
Actually Bush was elected President in 2000 and one of the defeated candidates was Reform Party candidate Pat B. – who if I remember correctly left The Republican party at that time.
D*mn nitnoy details.
I think it’s time for Pat Buchanan to run for President again. He could probably get 10-15% of the vote. Look how well he did in Palm Beach County in 2000!
His views reflect a significant amount of the Conservative base.
Buchanan’s still associated more with the Republicans than the Reforms.
Pat’s sincere. Insane but sincere. He’s not a reliable spokesman for the Republican line of the day so I’m not sure other Republicans will pick up on this.
Looks like you agree with me, Dugger: Conservatism, as an ideology, properly bears reponsibility in this case.
“Pat’s sincere.”
WTF does being sincere have to do with it?
Well, he’s sincere enough to come right out with his racism, unlike George Felix Allen Jr., who has to hide his contempt through obscure epithets from North Africa.
As I remember it, Pat doesn’t like Jews much either.
I suppose that’s some kind of quality. I guess.
Is anyone seriously denying that Robertson reflects the views of a large amount of the conservative base that supports Bush? I didn’t think so.
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Four books Bush has read this year reprinted in their entirety.
How many issues of TV Guide and Highlights and Highlights have come out this year? Shrubbie loves him some Goofus and Gallant.
I think you’re getting your Pats mixed up there Oliver. I do that as well. It’s not difficult, the only difference is Buchanan talks about God slightly less, and is arguably slightly less abrasive.
In all seriousness, though, I don’t care if he doesn’t read any books as long as he reads his PDB’s. Which he doesn’t seem to take seriously.
60 books so far this year? 7.5 books a month? 2.5 books a week? On top of running the most powerful country in the world?
Clearly no one in the White House is sweating comprehension.
So what’s new?
Pat is pretty radicalized, but if you sift through his points, they can sound more rational than the entire package. If he wasn’t already seen as an isolationist antisemite, some of his stuff would make sense…but he’s marketed himself all wrong.
Oliver, do you remember the skit I wrote about the strategy session between Pat Buchanan, Jesse Ventura and Donald Trump? That summed up Pat pretty well.
Is anyone seriously denying that Robertson reflects the views of a large amount of the conservative base that supports Bush? I didn’t think so.
Oh I see. So I can take the comments of some fringe loon leftists and since that ONE view represents the views of a large amount of the liberal base, it would be ok to align them with the party?
Shit, let’s start posting those David Duke anti-war diatribes and title the entries, ‘Anti-War, The Democratic Way.’
It just never ceases to amaze me why you feed the monster Oliver. Why do you, a very intelligent guy (well except for that Redskins thing), post such STUPID shit?
I love it when conservatives try to pretend that Pat Buchananan and David Duke aren’t conservatives. I mean, just because they 1) push for socially conservative policies and 2)call themselves conservatives and 3) are supported by people who call themselves conservative and 4) run on GOP tickets…
Thanks for the laugh, Jay!
I must have missed where there is a fringe loon leftist on a major cable network, like Pat Buchanan is.
What’s the name of Buchanan’s magazine again? Oh, right, The American Conservative.
I must have missed where there is a fringe loon leftist on a major cable network, like Pat Buchanan is.
Try Keith Olberman. Of course, you guys love him.
Birds of a feather….
Please find one prominent leader or person within the mainstream conservative movement (Pat Buchanan’s isolationist, anti-free trade, pro-tax views are not part of the mainstream conservative movement) that has argued for immigration reform because it will preserve the majority of those who are of European descent.
Oh, wait. You can’t. That’s because it’s part and parcel of the Big Red Book of Conservative Code Words we use in order to rile up the Aryan and Klan base.
2)call themselves conservatives
Wow. Somebody calls themselves something and that makes it true. Thanks Doc.
I now call myself God.
As God, my first order of business is to banish to hell anybody who writes for weblog that features an image of some idiot in a pink pig outfit on their banner.
I’m not going to defend Keith Olbermann, but from what I’ve seen of him he’s just a) anti-O’Reilly, and b) anti-Bush/anti-Iraq War. Those are all mainstream attitutes. What looniness are you referring to on the scale of Buchanan’s racism?
You addressed my second point, but none of the others, which apparently were beyond your powers to address. Anyway, your “god” example is silly. Politics is all about self identity. The fact that Buchanan identifies as a conservative, fighting for the sould of conservatism, even if it’s a somewhat marginal variant, does mean something. And the fact that he is socially conservative is simply inarguable. What else do you call being anti-gay and anti-immigrant? He’s a conservative nativist, and the fact that he is embarrassing to your kind of conservatism doesn’t change the fact that he is, yes, a conservative.
What else do you call being anti-gay and anti-immigrant? He’s a conservative nativist, and the fact that he is embarrassing to your kind of conservatism doesn’t change the fact that he is, yes, a conservative.
Wonderful, but that does not change the fact that it’s absurd for Oliver to take the words of Pat Buchanan, a marginal conservative at best and say “Oh well, here’s the true feelings of conservatives on the issue of immigration coming out.”
It’s just stupid.
A better example than Keith Olberman would be Cynthia McKinney. If she’s not a nutty leftist, I don’t know who is. Does everything she say become blanket cover for all liberals and Democrats?
Sure, I guess she’s nutty. But Buchanan’s anti-immigrant stuff is on the rise. Check Free Republic and LGF — this strain of nativist conservatism is growing, not shrinking. You simply can’t have the GOP taken over by the Southern conservatives and John Birchers and not expect this to happen, Jay. It can’t be Buckley forever. But don’t take my word for it, watch GOP try to court the nativist vote up through November as a way to counter the anti-war tide. It’s happening already. But don’t be sad, Jay; you didn’t fail conservatism. Conservatism failed you. LOL!
Jay:
Exactly how is Keith Olbermann “fringe”? I’m not particularly aware of any “radical” views he may have espoused.
Hell, the most extreme thing I’ve ever seen him really do was his “Nexus of Politics and Terror” feature, but even then, he entertains the possibility that these are all a bunch of coincidences.
(Then again, I wouldn’t consider speculation that the government may not be entirely forthright in its timing and motivation to be a particularly extreme act.)
What? You people don’t remember when Olbermann called for nationalizing the oil, natural gas, coal, steel, software, and telecommunications industries?
When he pushed for banning SUV’s, hamburgers, and prayer in churches?
Or the time he proposed canceling the pro baseball, football, and basketball seasons and replacing them all with international soccer matches?
The guy’s a loon, a loon I tells ya.
Yes, Keith Olbermann’s obsession with conspiracy theories regarding the Bush administration is the product of a truly rational person.
“obsession with conspiracy theories”
??!?
Oh, I see. You’ve been reading Brent Bozell again.
It’s simple. Keith Olbermann’s a liberal, basically. Ergo he is a leftist. Ergo he is TEH CRAZYZ0RZ LIBRUL ELEETISTS!!!!!
Not a Conservative = Not rational. I thought you guys were used to that by now.
Also I am kind of depressed that that first thing Quaker brought up is considered an example of unfeasibly radical leftism now.
I note that he’s upset by all the non-European-heritage immigrants.
He means the Hispanics.
Last I knew, Spain was, like, PART OF EUROPE!!
Ed
“I am kind of depressed that that first thing Quaker brought up is considered an example of unfeasibly radical leftism”
Nationalizing the oil companies?
That’s pretty radical.
Well, no, that probably wouldn’t work, and nor would nationalising the software industry for the sake of it.