Pat Buchanan actually makes sense

[edhopper]

I know he's a racist old coot, but sometimes he can make a good point.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25791#continueA

In echo of Warren Harding's "A Return to Normalcy" speech of 1920, George Bush last week declared, "Normalcy is returning back to Iraq."

The term seemed a mite ironic. For, as Bush spoke, Iraqis were dying in the hundreds in the bloodiest fighting in months in Basra, the Shia militias of Moqtada al Sadr were engaging Iraqi and U.S. troops in Sadr City, and mortar shells were dropping into the Green Zone.

[noel711]

1. EVen a broken clock is right..twice a day.

[DJ13]

2. No one was a bigger critic of going into Iraq than Buchanan

He hates the neocons.

[Turbineguy]

3. That's what's so scary

about the times we are living in. Pat Buchanan making sense.

[Jim__]

4. "returning back" - is that preferable to just plain old "returning"?

I just wish the asshole would get something right.

[thereismore]

5. He still voted for him twice. That puts his judgment in a sort of perspective. nt

[struggle4progress]

6. There are plenty of good people to quote. So why would anyone want to quote Buchanan?

[edhopper]

10. Because

I have not seen anyone else comment on Bush's disastrous policy in the Ukraine right now.
Buchanan seems to be the only one in the MSM talking about this.

[democracy1st]

7. Forget Pat there's far more qualified people we can look at

Pat's a certified looser. Just look at the damage he's doing on MSNBC.

[skepticscott]

8. Buchanan may be a nutjob on many issues

but he actually does have some intelligent, thoughtful people writing for him at American Conservative. Much more so than the AEI/Weekly Standard idiots that the MSM always suck up to.

[livingmadness]

9. I'm sorry

but intelligent or thoughtful conservative is an oxymoron IMO.

Having inadvertently come across Buchanan's diatribe on race and demand for gratitude from African Americans (I would NEVER seek out anything he writes/says) I couldn't care less if he 'made sense' and delivered with the rhetorical flair of Obama. He creates too much pain, and for me that's never ok.

[nealmhughes]

11. That piece was directly out of the "Southern Strategy" and the most noxious piece written on race

since Nixon went into his second term. I actually saved that piece to use as an example of how not to write using historical examples.

I wasn't sure if Pat Buchanan or one of Senator Thurman's old speechwriters about 1972 had written the piece.

[skepticscott]

12. Let's put it this way

The people who write about the Iraq war at American Conservative actually know something about history and international affairs, unlike their neo-con counterparts elsewhere. I rarely if ever read what Buchanan himself writes, but occasionally he does make sense. For example, when he pointed out that when we have a trade deficit with a country like Japan that we are also giving military aid to, we are, in effect, borrowing money from them to pay for our help with their security. I haven't seen any other commentator, liberal or conservative, point out how idiotic that is. One nice thing about whack jobs is that they occasionally spit out the cold, hard truth that everyone else knows deep down but is afraid to voice.

[democracy1st]

13. The American Conservative

does have great writers I've read plenty of articles there and will continue to do so. Pat however is a totally different matter,he's a straight up bigot. It's not that every now and then he makes a good point,more important to me is I never see a Paul Craig Roberts,Glenn Greenwald on corporate media. That tells me they don't want intellectual discussion they want controversy.