Posted on 11/19/2014 7:04:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
Republican presidential contender Patrick J. Buchanan chided President Clinton and the GOP-controlled Congress yesterday for failing to secure U.S. borders and endorsed legislation that would deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.
Buchanan also called for legislation making English the country's official language and for at least a doubling of the Border Patrol.
And he called anew for two other components of his immigration policy: a double security fence along the most porous section of the U.S-Mexico border and a five-year moratorium on virtually all immigration so that newcomers to the United States could be assimilated.
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The GOP would stronger today if Pay lost twice in the 1990s instead of losing with the RINOS they ran.
Nice, an article from yesteryear. Yes, Pat’s the man! I’ve read a half-dozen of his books.
I voted for him...proudly. I’ve caught grief for it across the years. But I still don’t regret it. He isn’t perfect. No one is. He has feet of clay. But I’m still glad that I voted for him.
Buchanan was right then
and he is right still today
I voted for him as well. No regrets.
I was always with Pat on immigration. I agreed with every word he said at the 92 convention, and where Bush lost was when he disavowed Buchanan and our wing of the party. Pat veered off in the later 90s on some anti-semitic beliefs, and got more wacky as time went on. He may have always had them, but he didn’t espouse them publicly until he joined up with Perot. Too bad, he was good at taking it to the liberals.
Pat is the Conservatives sanity check. His cold hard and astute politically incorrect essays causes so much controversy. It makes me sad that such talent and analysis goes largely ignored because he tells us the truth we don’t want to hear.
I voted for him, too. I still feel good about it. And I still want my Bob Dole vote back.
It's not true. All that was and is a frame job by the GOP-Elites and the PC enforcers. Same thing they are doing to the Tea Party.
Indeed
I voted for Bob Dole, too. I still remember the feeling as I went to the polls. Trudging to the voting place; dejected, realizing that he wasn’t going to win; dejected, because I wouldn’t have been all that excited even if he did win.
Since then I have frequently voted for candidates that had no chance of winning, but I have never since had that same feeling of hopeless defeat. Since then, even in defeat, I’ve voted for candidates whom I could be proud of...those who sent a shot across the bow of the establishment saying that I am a conservative...that my vote isn’t subject to bribery or ridicule or intimidation...that my values are important, and that I am free to fight for them.
I voted for him...even sent some money his way (the only prez candidate I’ve donated to). Foolishly told a coworker about my choice and got treated like a Nazi by the whole office of lefties and LIVs when word spread.
I voted for him in 2000, because I knew he was right about immigration. What choice did I have, Bush, Gore? LOL
Despite other faults that have surfaced since then, and I think we have to be frank about some of them, Buchanan was focused like a laser on shutting down illegal immigration.
The sooner that issue was faced, the better off we would had been. It’s now fourteen years later. What a mess!
I voted for Dole too. It as the first time in my life I actually felt like I was wearing a one inch thick coat of crap after voting.
I have heard this bon mot BS about Buchanan being a racist, an anti-Semite, worshiping strange gods, etc. bandied about by my social betters to silence debate. We have also seen the pejoratives of “birther”, “Teabagger”, “extremist” and of course the “well settled” aspects of evolution, abortion, and climate change used for the same ends.
Marginalize truth and hold forth a lie. Bullshite.
See the WORST the ADL can say about Buchanan....
http://archive.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro.html
If this is the abject worst Buchanan has said and written as posted by his sworn enemies, then the assertion is bald faced propaganda and hogshite. (much worse than bullshite if you ever mucked out stalls as I have)
The ADL is the problem, not Buchanan.
Stating facts and the conclusions a rational man would draw from those facts may well be embarrassing, even humiliating to those whom the facts and conclusions gore....but it is not an “ism” of any form.
I must therefore riposte that Pat “...veer(ed) off in the later 90s on some anti-semitic beliefs, and got more wacky as time went on...”
Rather, he remained steadfast in a decaying world. As a result, he became one of the last well educated, historically aware, and rational men left on the national stage. He always put America First on every point despite what was trendy or fashionable on K Street, Wall Street, or Hollywood Blvd. For that he remains feared and damned by lesser lights and dim bulbs.
As he wanes with age, and others like him have been all but silenced or buried, we are left nothing but the capering, superficial girly boys, and other snarky, addled brained twits that sit when they pee to lead us.
But Cruz. Yes, Cruz. I may yet get to dust off my Buchanan Brigade haversack and march once more into battle behind a worthy man.
Point me to something Buchanan has said, written, or done that might change my view.
If nothing else, I am relentless in the pursuit of truth and its defense.
Buchanan was always right, and the reason why the elite insiders did not like him.
We supported Pat 100 percent, but we knew both divisions of the fed D.C. party hated him. He told the truth, was 100 percent pro-American, but that was no longer accepted or tolerated by the world order elite.
It’s been a downhill incremental decline for the U.S. since Pat made a run for President. The wheels were coming off the U.S. even back then. Very unfortunate for America.
I was proud to be a pitchfork member of the Brigade. He was right then and now. He is right more times than he is wrong. “Ride to the sound of the guns!”
I read his articles twice a week for decades. I formed my opinion based on his own words. Did he frame himself.
William F. Buckley wrote of Buchanan: ”I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism.”
Then there was this:
In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”
He has a little bit of a thing for Hitler. Always has, dating back to things he said in the 70s. He says, yeah, he was a bad guy, but he was courageous, he knew history, he was a leader, etc. etc.
Where Pat lost me as a defender and appreciator of his views was when his anti-Israel tendencies became openly anti-Jewish. I am a strong supporter of Israel and a strong proponent of the need for us to take out Islam (not "militant Islam, but Islam) with a long term campaign of undermining and occasional hot wars, similar to the 50 year cold war against Communism. Buchanan seems to think that only Jews and their dupes want that. His thinking will get us all killed, except for our women, who will be sex slaves to the barbarians.
People who cannot see that in Buchanan are suspect to me as not being conservative so much as being whacked out. They may be racist, they may be into Larouche conspiracies, they may be antisemitic. But there is usually some reason they can't see Buchanan for what he is.
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