[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

During the '80s, conservatives used to groan every time Kevin Phillips was quoted as a "conservative" saying something snippy about Ronald Reagan. They joked that he had acquired a new first name, "Even," as in, "Even Kevin Phillips opposes these tax cuts." Like Buchanan, Phillips is an old Nixon hand who decided at some point that exploiting cultural resentments and seeing various elites get their comeuppance mattered more than expanding freedom. The difference is that letting Buchanan continue to describe himself as a conservative would be not just irritating but destructive. He is in no important sense a conservative any more. Let his failure be his alone.

NRO's merciless spanking of Buchanan and his faux "more-conservative-than-thou" drivel is worth savoring in full. That was simply one of the many highlights, is all. :)

[lancer]

I'll read it all later, but for now, how does NRO classify Buchanan, if not conservative? Libertarian? Populist? Just asking, so hold yer powder...