The morning of August 29th, before Sarah Palin was announced as McCain’s official running mate, Pat Buchanan was on Morning Joe trashing Palin as a potential VP pick (sometime between 7 a.m. central). That evening, after Palin was announced as the official pick, Buchanan was on Hardball excited about Palin’s candidacy (5-6 p.m.).
That’s a complete reversal with no reservations in at most 12 hours.
Also funny: Apparently Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan get their official marching orders late.
Given his stance against the war and his status as a third-party organizer, I don’t believe Buchanan would even be endorsing the Pub ticket this year if Obama were white.
This is exactly what a ton of repubs are doing right now. No one took Palin as a serious choice. Once they have her they are forced to defend her like it is the wisest of all possible choices. In their hearts they know better. She is a terrible choice .
So, you don’t believe he takes his marching orders from the official smoke-filled back room at the Hall of Doom. But you do believe that the fact that he appears to be acting as a Republican shill is tied to his views on race? Interesting. Did you take into account in your theory that the Republican party is the party of Lincoln? Check and mate, motherfucker! How’s that taste?
And Lincoln was about the last time that party ever did anything for race. Yes, the Dems used to be the party for segregation (well, state’s rights, but ipso facto, segregation) but the Civil Rights Act did away with that; those people who were against Civil Rights started joining the GOP in droves–and they were courted heavily by this same GOP. Essentially the parties have switched positions as happens over time. Lincoln was absolutely a great man–but to think he’d come back to life and vote GOP is ridiculous (not that you said he would, I’m just making a point).
I don’t think Buchanan is a hypocrite. What he says in those clips is so lacking in content that there’s nothing to contradict. Besides which, he’s not talking about his own opinion, he’s analyzing and predicting what other people’s opinion will be.
Watch it again. It’s all, “the evangelical Christians are gonna be excited,” and “this gal can go to all the base places,” and liberate McCain to go to moderate suburbs, etc. Like all political analysts these days, he never says whether she’s qualified, or will be a good vice president; he only talks about whether she will help McCain get elected.
Have you been paying attention for the last few decades ? It’s the famous “Southern Strategy”.Whatever they used to be, the Republican Party is now the party of white racists.
He wasn’t “trashing” Palin. He never said she would be a bad nominee; he never even said what he thought about her. He just talked about the possible perception of her nomination (“but I think the argument made against her would be that she just is not ready to be commander-in-chief. . .”). Granted he displayed an enthusiasm about her in the second segment that was absent from the first, but it’s hardly a flip-flop or hypocrisy.
To me, that sounds more like she’s only commending them for giving Alaska voters an alternative choice in policies, to give the major parties more of an incentive to follow the will of the people. Plausible deniability, maybe, but I’m willing to give her the benefit of doubt on this matter.
