I think many were in agreement based on Bush's flat out refusal, being the chief executive officer whose specific constitutional job it is, to execute existing law to secure our southern borders. 
Posted on 02/10/2006 10:01:03 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
Three years ago, I wrote that Pat Buchanan was "the useful idiot of the liberal establishment" and that his "wisdom and patriotism must be questioned." After I penned those words, I received a barrage of hate mail from supporters of Buchanan. Much of the mail was anti-Semitic, and most of it was ignorant babble.
Of course, it is no surprise that Buchanan's supporters compose the anti-Semitic and ignorant wing of the paleo-conservative right. Buchanan himself is anti-Semitic and ignorant. This week, he proved both his moral blindness and his myopic bigotry in a series of columns supporting American foreign aid for Hamas, castigating American presidents from Wilson and FDR and Truman to Kennedy and Bush for their interventionist foreign policies and insulting freedom of the press in Europe.
First, on Feb. 1, Buchanan stated:
Understandably, the Israelis are close to hysterical over the landslide for Hamas and are on a diplomatic campaign to have all donors end all aid to a Palestinian Authority dominated by Hamas. But that is not in our interests. It is not even in Israel's interest. For it has been Israel's behavior, and uncritical U.S. support for that behavior, that produced this victory for Hamas. To continue on that road is to arrive at, literally, a dead end.
Buchanan's arrogance is astounding. The idea that monetary support for the terrorist group Hamas is in America's and Israel's best interest is laughable. The very idea that a man who has called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory" can speak for Israel's "best interest" is laughable. Buchanan, the anti-Semite, strikes again.
At least Buchanan is consistent. He believes that capitulation to Arab terror is the best solution across the board. On Feb. 3, he condemned President Bush's State of the Union address, averring, "His victory in Iraq, like the wars of Wilson and FDR, has turned to ashes in our mouths ... Bush seeks to counter critics who warned him not to go in by associating them with the demonized and supposedly discredited patriots of the America First movement of 1940-1941 ... Who has done more to empower Islamic radicals than Bush with his clamor for elections across a region radicalized by our own policies?"
Yes, you read that correctly: Buchanan feels that World War II was a defeat for America and identifies himself with the fully discredited America First movement. Of course, this is nothing new from Buchanan – he has already declared that World War II was not worth fighting. At least Buchanan's revolting and shameful betrayal of the hundreds of thousands who died for freedom in World War II and the millions who died in death camps makes clear one thing: The same folks who despise America's interventionism on behalf of freedom in the Middle East would have let Britain fall to Hitler and the chimneys of Auschwitz spew forth the ashes of every last Jew.
But Buchanan wasn't done yet. On Feb. 6, he blamed European freedom of the press for Muslim rampaging across the globe. European newspapers, he explained, had provoked Muslim rage by reprinting a controversial Danish cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed with his turban shaped like a bomb. "What was the purpose of this juvenile idiocy by the Europress?" Buchanan asked. "Is this what freedom of the press is all about – the freedom to insult the faith of a billion people and start a religious war?" Of course, no Buchanan column would be complete without a reference to Jews, so Buchanan added this gem: "What hypocrisy ... Skeptics and deniers of the Holocaust are prosecuted, fined and imprisoned in Europe with the enthusiastic endorsement of the European press."
Apparently, Buchanan is upset that Europeans would deign to be more sensitive about a Holocaust they perpetrated than a cartoon labeling Islam as violent. Buchanan is upset that European governments have not followed the lead of the spineless State Department, deploring the cartoon while upholding the rights of the press. Note to Pat: Radical Muslims aren't really upset about the cartoon. The cartoon is a stand-in for Western freedoms as a whole. Islamists are just as offended by the very existence of an elderly white Jesuit who tends to support their hatred of Jews.
Unfortunately, Pat Buchanan represents many people on both sides of the political aisle. He is the representative of a constituency that seeks American isolationism and appeasement. He is the representative of a constituency that always blames America – unless Israel is available as a first-option scapegoat. He is more left than right, and more nuts than sane. He is important for one reason, and one reason only: He reveals the mindset of America's fifth columnists.
How anybody can support a person who associates,even inderectly, with Farrakhan is beyond me.
More twittery from Shapiro. Once Hitler attacked the USSR--months before we entered the war--Britain was safe and Hitler's goose was cooked. The same is true of Auschwitz, which was liberated by the Red Army, which also inflicted 85% of all casualties on the Wehrmacht.
Buchanan has consistently advocated letting other countries do the fighting and dying whenever possible. For some strange reason, a desire to save American lives is seen as "unpatriotic" by those who think patriotism consists in volunteering (other) Americans to be the first to fight and die.
"Now you're just plain lying."
You loose credibility in my eyes, right there.
Truth hurts, huh? A guy named "Shapiro" will get some anti-jew emails. Deal with it.
Buchanan's running mate was Ezola Foster, a conservative black Christian from Los Angeles. You could look it up, if facts mattered to you.
I think many were in agreement based on Bush's flat out refusal, being the chief executive officer whose specific constitutional job it is, to execute existing law to secure our southern borders.
Yes. Buchanan opposes all foreign aid unless it is given to support an avowed enemy of the state of Israel.
Anti-Muslim provocation.
What did Pat Buchanan do on the anniversary of D-Day?
Cry because his side lost.
How does Pat Buchanan rally his supporters at a Reform Party meeting?
He reads one of his speeches in front of a mirror.
What does Pat Buchanan call a delicatessen?
Proof that a Zionist conspiracy wants to take over our food.
Thanks for the link. I always thought he flirted along that line, but I could never nail him on anything.. He seems to carefully select his words. Without studying alot, because frankly, I dont care about him other than to know that I don't agree with him about alot, I'll take Buckley's assesment as correct. He is anti-semetic.
There are many reputable historians who would disagree with your assessment. In any case, when the Nazis declared war on the United States, we were obliged to come to the aid of the Allies.
During the 2000 election, Fulani shocked many when she endorsed Pat Buchanan, then running on the Reform Party ticket. Some papers incorrectly reported that Fulani was Buchanan's running mate, but this position actually belonged to Ezola Foster. Fulani did, however, serve for a time as a campaign advisor. This was seen as a strange meeting of two ends of the political spectrum who had very little in common, though both candidates had previously been accused of anti-semitism. However, both Buchanan and Fulani related in populist language that they represented marginalized groups who were fed up with the two-party system. Fulani later withdrew her endorsement of the Buchanan campaign on the grounds that it had "hijacked" the Reform movement in order to further Buchanan's own right wing agenda. [6] Foster responded by claiming that Fulani was quite clear on Buchanan's objectives both before and while she worked with him. [7]
You are a perfect example of the Pat Buchanan supporters I have encountered. Fess up. You wrote some of those e-mails to Ben now didn't you?
Agreed. And Buchanan agrees with this, too, although you would never know that from the media coverage of his book.
Lenora Fulani was PB's campaign co-chair on the Reform Party ticket. Not good company.
Yes, Fulani walked out of the Reform party when Buchanan got the nomination.
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that people who actually hate Jews, using the classical definition of "hatred", are examined in other areas. Will you, do you think, find them, ignorant of history and other topics, have a low IQ, incapable of thinking critically about general subjects and arriving by logical reasoning at accurate conclusions?
Ah....yes, like Al Sharpton who always screams racist against anyone who disagrees with him, Shapiro screams antisemite.
I think you can be substantially anti-semetic without fully hating Jews. He certainly doesn't seem to have their best interests at heart. His assessment is pretty absurd. But hate?
Pat Buchanan hurts the conservative movement. He makes stupid, disingenuous and ill-concieved comments and the liberals use him to tar all conservatives with the same brush. I don't know much about Shapiro, but Buchanan takes himself much too seriously and is wrong most of the time. Shapiro is correct in this particular article.
No. But there are many intelligent misogynists, pedophiles, and child pornographers around too. It's just hard to get past their fatal flaw.
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