Anybody heard anything from the Patster recently? Usually when something nasty happens to the US, Buchanan’s got a few choice words to say, but I haven’t heard nary a peep out of him in ages. It’d be interesting to know if he tried to trot out his tired old Fortress America line that he used about the US in WW II during his last election campaign.
His Web site at http://www.buchanan.org was last updated in April. I’ve been reading the wires a lot at the newspaper I work for, and I haven’t read anything from him.
He was on the McLaughlin Group last night, and yes, he did blame most of the security failures on the illegal immigration problem.
Anthracite, did he spout any of his other nonsense about how we should pull our armed forces out of Europe and the rest of the world and things like that? Did he say we should retaliate against Bin Laden or should we just forget the whole thing ever happened?
I watched the McLaughlin group, and Pat seems to have changed his position a little, although he was still ranting about immigrants. He does believe that the Taliban has to be overthrown. Hell, even Eleanor Clift is turning into a hawk these days.
Transcripts of the McLaughlin Group shows are available online here: http://www.mclaughlin.com/ It usually takes a couple of days for the last show to make it on there, but Buchanan has been a regular for some time, so you can go back over the last few weeks to see what he’s saying.
I saw him on Fox News a week or so ago and he made an interesting point, I thought: That it is not merely because of our Western values that we are under the gun; after all, other Western countries like France, Canada, England, and so on have not been targeted. He argued that we are sort of like Rome; the great power in the world, and therefore, a target. I don’t know what his other opinions on this matter are.
Pat was on Hannity & Colmes last week, following Newt Gingrich. Gingrich wants to invade every country suspected of harboring terrorists. Later, Buchanan kept calling him “Field Marshall Gingrich”. Pat made it clear that he thought that a wide war against terrorism is a terrible idea.