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Bummer. I always liked him even when he sold out with his VP pick in the reform party. He didn't think 2 world wars were our business. He was definitely a conscious element in the GOP, even amongst the conservative wing. He combined populism with an intellectual element. Something tells me ALL republicans would listen when he spoke. The left could only cry racism. So did the RINO's.
1 posted on 02/06/2023 7:00:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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During Pat’s campaign was the first political rally I ever attended. And when I first began to understand how much the governmental power structure hated normal people.


2 posted on 02/06/2023 7:03:48 AM PST by skeeter
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Buchanan was mostly correct about quite a bit.

I loved it when he took his presidential campaign to a gun show.

3 posted on 02/06/2023 7:04:39 AM PST by marktwain
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Mr Buchanan will be missed. A MAGA voice before before it became a campaign slogan.


5 posted on 02/06/2023 7:06:08 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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A great Paleo conservative. He will be sorely missed.


7 posted on 02/06/2023 7:12:55 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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I agree with him on WWI, but not WWII.


9 posted on 02/06/2023 7:18:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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One of the best writers I’ve ever seen, whether I agreed with him or not.


10 posted on 02/06/2023 7:19:06 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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IBITHWD........................


11 posted on 02/06/2023 7:20:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I remember when he ran the first time, a National Review cover asked the question “Is Pat Buchanon Anti-Semitic? With limited evidence, based mostly on his positions, they concluded he was. I wondered why they never did the same analysis on James Carter. There certainly was more evidence. That was one of my early recognition of the uni-party nature of National Review.


13 posted on 02/06/2023 7:22:23 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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Voted for him when he first ran for president.
If he won the entire country would be 100x better off than it is today.


14 posted on 02/06/2023 7:23:33 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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He was an American first patriot. He was an intellectual populist.

He stood miles above open border RINOS like the Bush family.

Like Trump...he was despised by the left and the fake conservative incorporated crowd.


16 posted on 02/06/2023 7:24:29 AM PST by LongWayHome
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In my younger days, I naively thought he'd clinch the '96 GOP nomination.

LOL!

17 posted on 02/06/2023 7:24:32 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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pat buchanan is a moron


19 posted on 02/06/2023 7:32:33 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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I recall Pat once answering another TV panelist, “You have to understand the Democrat and Republican Parties are the left and right wings of the same bird of prey”. Is it ever so true.


20 posted on 02/06/2023 7:32:57 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Behind enemy lines)
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In the late 90’s Pat had a piece on the goals of the left which outlined most of what Biden has done. He knew it all.
25 posted on 02/06/2023 7:41:19 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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I’m sure Mahmoud Abbas is available.


30 posted on 02/06/2023 7:47:28 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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Long Before Donald Trump, Pat Buchanan was the loudest champion for building the border wall. His many prescient warnings just fell on deaf ears.

He is like the male version of the Greek prophetess, Cassandra…


31 posted on 02/06/2023 7:49:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Pat’s “THE DEATH OF THE WEST” book is a classic.

PROPHETIC


34 posted on 02/06/2023 7:54:18 AM PST by Lonely Are The Brave (A man's got to know his limitations. Dirty Harry Callahan)
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In 1996, I ran as a Buchanan delegate in the Louisiana GOP primary. I was always very proud that I was able to have a part in that campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries#cite_ref-2

On February 6, Buchanan won the Louisiana caucus. Buchanan and Gramm had made several trips to the state to campaign. Gramm was expected to win, due to being from neighboring Texas and having the support of many of the Louisiana party regulars.[2]


35 posted on 02/06/2023 7:58:36 AM PST by abb
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His obsessions for World War 2 revisionism was, and is, pretty creepy. Why was it so important for him to defend John Demnjanjuk, or to endorse a claim that Eisenhower starved a million German POWs, or that Britain should have made peace with Hitler?


36 posted on 02/06/2023 8:06:54 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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The Trump years turned me around on PB. Started to respect what he had to say. There are certain things I had issues with PB, but he was spot on for the last half decade at least. Hope he enjoys his retirement.


52 posted on 02/06/2023 11:29:19 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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