Posted on 12/20/2007 6:59:20 PM PST by jern
I think Pat is spot on in his analysis here.
If those two jerk offs are the best that the Pubbies can come up with, they deserve to lose. Slick WillieII Vs. Peanut CarterII. A bad joke!
Pat has it nailed down pretty firmly here. The only point I would quibble with is that I don’t think Thompson would drop out and throw his weight behind McCain in New Hampshire, as he would wait to see what would happen in South Carolina, where Thompson still has a chance. If he could pull out a win in South Carolina, then he might be able to capitalize on that in the Feb. 5th primaries. Otherwise I agree with most of what Pat says.
Barring a miracle surge by Thompson, Pat has this one pretty much figured right.
Pat leaves out the possibility of a Huck win in Iowa, a Romney win in New Hampshire, a Thompson win in S. Carolina and a Guilianni win in Florida. Heading us towards a decision at the convention . . .
He defending that Dukmajin (sic) on many issues but not his Nazi actions but whether he was one or not....and if it was right to deport him if it was questionable of his guilt.
I’m not sure I would call that defending Nazis.
“I think those people who are still convinced Fred is going to turn this thing his way are delusional.”
“You gotta believe!”
Tug McGraw, of the 1973 NY Mets
“Pat leaves out the possibility of a Huck win in Iowa, a Romney win in New Hampshire, a Thompson win in S. Carolina and a Guilianni win in Florida. Heading us towards a decision at the convention . . .”
He didn’t leave it out, he says that he doesn’t think it can happen.
“If Rudy is 0-4 going into Florida, he loses Florida”
“And Huckabee? He has to win Iowa. If he does, he will be the favorite in South Carolina and for the nomination, as well.”
Certainly difficult to see Thompson winning South Carolina (where he currently polls in a statistical tie for 3rd,4th, 5th and double digits behind Huckabee) if he can’t get a bounce from Iowa.
I don’t think that a failure to win Iowa or New Hampshire kills a candidate, which is what he assumes by writing off Guilianni’s chances at Florida or Thompson’s for South Carolina. Historically it hasn’t been death to not win the early primaries (the whole come back kid thing with Clinton) . . . so Buchanan’s analysis is a little rigid.
“he has never denied the Holocaust”
I wish it were true, but ...
“Worst of all, Buchanan did not shrink from affirming in his own voice the vicious and lunatic theories of Holocaust deniers. For example, Buchanan wrote that “the Israeli court... concluded the murder weapon... was [a] diesel engine ... which drove its exhaust into the death chamber .... The problem is: diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” This is sheer nonsense. Roughly a third of the six million Jews exterminated were done in by diesel exhaust, and if it is non-lethal then the Holocaust is what the people who taught this stuff to Buchanan say it is—a hoax. The same holds for Buchanan’s bizarre assertion that 1,600 medical papers have been written about “Holocaust survivor syndrome,” which involves “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” In short Buchanan made himself the mouthpiece for Holocaust revisionists and the tribune of accused Nazis, and thereby marked himself with a shame that no verdict can erase.”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n23_v45/ai_14753228/pg_2
By such logic then Buckley who was editor at the time and has had his own issues with the "Jewish Lobby" as folks called it then.. and his magazine NR must be Holocaust Deniers too?
I believe folks should be able to question whatever the conventional wisdom is and not have to be smeared simply for doing so.
All I get from this is that Buchanan is smeared as a Nazi for simply daring question at all what other so called experts declare and who have their own dog in the hunt....bigtime.
As with most uber-contentious issues, the truth is probably in there somewhere between.
and to qualify as one must always do on FR....I am not a Pat supporter...
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