Actually, the column does nothing but cite specific utterances of a few members of the old right. I'm curious how quoting someone paints them as racist.
There are two ways of using a person's words against him in a deceitful way.
1) by how one defines racism and
2) removing the context of a statement.
A perfect example is the wide spread quote of how Bucahnan praised Hitler in a column which is used as proof of his anti-semitism. Don't have the quote saved but I remember his original column and I clearly remember how it has been used. He mentioned how in W.W.I Hitler was a brave soldier and won several medals for bravery, being highly decorated as an EM was an exception in the imperial army of that day and quite an achievement. Besides being historically true the column from which it was lifted used Hitler as an example of how men with dangerous ideas should be taken seriously, deadly seriously and not made to look ridiculous and cartoonish. We mock or ignore these types at our own peril. That is hardly the praise and admiration it is portrayed to be by Buchanan's detractors.
- While I am an individualist and do not identify with any group nor understand the psychology of the need to I do not belittle those that feel that need through either national, regional or tribal pride. We seem to have a double standard these days where certain groups are fully allowed to publicly wave their pride and others are condemned for the same. Like whites in general, those who feel western civ is superior to stone age hunter/gatherers and especially despised is white Southerners. If someone is from a despised group, proud of it and defiant about it to the PC codes of the day so what? I haven't seen any of the listed malefactors call for another final solution or purification of the land or blood of the race nor have they called for the return of Jim Crow so where is the evil in their pride? Where is the evil in pointing out double standards? But this is being used as a negative for political reasons by those like Frum here, trying to say paleocons are all racists cranks. The reason is to specifically discredit all their ideas which will then nullify their position on foreign policy which is what this fight is really all about.