Twelve Pretty Racist Or Just Crazy Quotes From Pat Buchanan’s New Book

[deminks]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/twelve_pretty_racist_or_just_crazy_quotes_from_pat_buchanans_new_book.php

Pundit and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan’s new book, “Suicide Of A Superpower,” is a veritable treasure trove of eye-popping assertions about the decline of America at the hand of increased diversity and multiculturalism.

(snip)

From the chapter, “Equality or Freedom?”:

Not until the 1960s did courts begin to use the Fourteenth Amendment to impose a concept of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, and the Gettysburg Address never believed in. Before the 1960s, equality meant every citizen enjoyed the same constitutional rights and the equal protection of existing laws. Nothing in the Constitution or federal law mandated social racial, or gender equality.

(snip)

From the chapter “‘The White Party’”:

What the above points to is a strategy from which Republicans will recoil, a strategy to increase the GOP share of the white Christian vote and increase the turnout of that vote by specific appeals to social, cultural, and moral issues, and for equal justice for the emerging white minority. If the GOP is not the party of New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci and Cambridge cop James Crowley, it has no future. And although Howard Dean disparages the Republicans as the “white party,” why should Republicans be ashamed to represent the progeny of the men who founded, built, and defended America since her birth as a nation?

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Cmon, MSNBC. It's past time for Uncle Pat to go to pasture. This man has never leaned forward in his life.

Tell 'em

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Nice glasses.

He looks like an angry Elvis impersonator with a stick up his ass.

[Ikonoklast]

2. He's nuts. I think more people laugh at him than agree with him.

Thankfully, Old White Racists are dying off quickly.

[Syrinx]

3. concept of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence... never believed in

Ever hear of the Declaration Of Independence, Pat?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

And most people today think "men" means "people."

[ET Awful]

4. We won't even get in to the fact that his historic timeline is a little out of whack

since the Fourteenth Amendment didn't exist when the Authors (whose beliefs he got wrong) wrote the damn thing :).

[Syrinx]

5. excellent point! Thank you.