The Akin Panic

The American Conservative ^ | August 24, 2012 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[donna]

Oh boy, now it’s time to attack Buchanan instead of reading the article.

[Alter Kaker]

What Pat said.

[SeminoleCounty]

Wow...Pat nails it

The over-reaction to the Akin comments from the Liberal wing of the GOP have been incessant. You think the Dem. Underground had a GOP branch.

Of course, the PhonyCon Pro-Aborts should be on here attacking Buchanan in 3...2...1...

Good news Pat sayin’ and Akin stayin’

[who knows what evil?]

This was the moral position of those extremists John Paul II and Ronald Reagan.

Word.

[blueunicorn6]

I guess we have some conservatives who, if they had been captain instead of John Paul Jones, wouldn’t have said “I have not yet begun to fight”, but would’ve peed their pants and run up a white flag. Maybe they could wave coulter’s underwear.

[Jim from C-Town]

Thank you Patrick. it is about time someone brought this into focus.

[jonno]

I don’t always agree with with Pat - but he nailed this one.

IMO - any “principled-purists” calling for Akin to step down have shown themselves to be neither.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The GOP’s insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

Beating up on Todd Akin is not going to change that.”

Bingo

[okie01]

I guess we have some conservatives who, if they had been captain instead of John Paul Jones, wouldn’t have said “I have not yet begun to fight”, but would’ve peed their pants and run up a white flag. Maybe they could wave coulter’s underwear.

Were I a Missourian, I'd vote for Akin as opposed to McCaskill. But I wouldn't confuse Todd Akin with John Paul Jones. More like a George Armstrong Custer...

[Sola Veritas]

“Maybe they could wave coulter’s underwear.”

They would have to get it from Mitt...he controls Ann’s underwear. She is a future “Sister Wife” for the Magic Mormon.

[SeminoleCounty]

.....IMO - any “principled-purists” calling for Akin to step down have shown themselves to be neither....

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Exactly. well Stated. Thank You

[saganite]

IIRC Buchanan has been an enemy of the Neocons who got us unto Iraq and Afghanistan and now he’s bemoaning the GOP’s lack of testicles for not speaking up for further interventionist policies? Oh, the irony.

[stop_fascism]

By “Liberal wing” I suppose you mean anyone who disagrees with you.

[Leaning Right]

I'm a huge Pat Buchanan fan, but he misses one important point. American politics is no longer a level playing field. Democrats can do just about anything, including committing a murder, and get away with it.

But if a Republican is caught littering, there is hell to pay.

So Republicans have to be more careful, more finessed. Until schools of journalism become more balanced, a Republican who yells “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” is simply going to get torpedoed.

[saganite]

Write it backwards. What ending do you want? Start with that and pursue a logical progression thatt leads to it.

[Tennessee Nana]

Pat, you hit the target ...

[saganite]

Crap. Wrong thread!

[jonno]

George Armstrong Custer

Chuckles.

Hopefully, unlike Custer, this one mistake by Akin is a footnote - rather than the definition - of an otherwise exemplary life & career.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded."

I was just about to try once again to find that quote.. I had it wrong with something more like "kill their own."

I believe that Chambers predicted that the commies would win based upon what he experienced and witnessed.