The Silly Season

Where was Pat Buchanan 30 or 40 years ago, when he could have told Warren Beatty to quit screwing every skirt that ever walked and accept Jesus Christ as his lord and savior?

For that matter, where was Brit Hume?




One thing about it: Tiger Woods is still good for ratings.

Political Commentary

Pat Buchanan of all people hits the nail right on the head that if the GOP destroys the auto industry, it's probably the end of the party.

After all, ALL of the "rust belt" states, including previously red states such as Indiana and Ohio, and others hard hit by the economic downturn such as North Carolina and Virginia, went Democratic, and the GOP can just about forget it if they are going to shit all over a major industry which directly and indirectly involves literally millions and millions of jobs.

It can't be allowed to happen--EVER.

Remember this, and tattoo it on your forehead:

When workers, execs, engineers, dealers, salesmen and suppliers are all factored in, the Big Three employ 3 million people who contribute $21 billion a year to Social Security and Medicare, and $25 billion in federal income taxes. Add in all the businesses that depend on the auto industry, and we are talking about one-tenth of the U.S. labor force.

As columnist Tom Piatak of Chronicles and Takimag.com writes, 850,000 retirees, and their families, depend for pensions and health care on the Big Three. If they go under, the burden falls on us.

And to let the auto industry die is to write America out of much of the economic future of the planet.

Add to that millions and millions of other workers employed by other industries and businesses dependent on cities where auto manufacturing is a primary employer. Not to mention state and local governments and school districts dependent on the tax base of these workers. It's the domino effect, and it would kill our country.

It would plunge the country into another Great Depression.

Political Commentary

Pat Buchanan is correct there is a media double standard when it comes to Joseph Biden and Sarah Palin.

Political Commentary

Pat Buchanan makes a little bit of sense regarding this election.

Obama hasn't won this thing by a longshot.
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In this very long post, it is clear the "left" is every bit as bad as the right when it comes to attacking opponents, but they will attack like crazy anybody who dares question the Messiah of Hyde Park. They were just as bad attacking the Clintons, though, to be accurate, the left didn't abuse Congress and the courts in their persecution of the them. That post, of course, focuses primarily on the treatment of Hillary Clinton.

My belief though is the Democratic Party had NO business whatsoever playing identity politics this year. Neither Clinton nor Obama should have run this year because of what was at stake. Because the party did play identity politics, we have a hell of a mess on our hands.
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Blast from the Past

Here is the "culture war" speech or whatever it was from 1992, as told by Pat Buchanan.

Part 1:




Part 2:





Part 3:




Part 4:

Political Commentary

"Experience" has been way oversold. After all, we have had some candidates in both political parties who have little real political experience.

This nails it:

In the past, when Americans expected presidents to have a record of political service, Mr. Obama would have been called a poseur or imposter and sent home. Not anymore. This is the day of the dilettante.

Experience is overrated. It is unnecessary. As someone recently put it, anyone can grow up to be president in America, but now you don't even have to grow up anymore.

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Pat Buchanan decides he likes McCain's running mate pick and thinks the GOP ticket has a fighting chance.

How about a landslide, considering how far the Obama campaign and its supporters they are willing to go to piss off huge chunks of the electorate?

Our dictator set the standard for experience or lack of it, and Obama and his ilk are just following the latest precedent.

Campaign Commentary

It's WHEN, Pat, NOT if.
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Issues are more important than personal crap, especially when the personal crap was mostly made up.
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Pat Buchanan

tells somebody to shut up because she keeps yapping about Obama:



And that other woman, Rachel Maddow, has the gall to tell him he's rude.

Earlier on Hardball,

Chris Matthews was talking with a panel, including the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan, about the Ferraro flap:

Pat Buchanan

is telling the truth:




The ONLY reason the media are even covering him is because of his ethnic/racial background and the novelty of it. Obama knows this, and he has been playing the race card all along.

It has nothing to do with his campaign's strengths, aided and abetted by Republicans and the media. It's ALL about race, and trust me, if he gets the nomination, his race will be used against him in the general election coupled with his total incompetence as a senator.

If it weren't true, why would he play the race card in states where African Americans are the dominant Democratic voting base? Why wouldn't he run on his (flimsy) record?

Why is Ferraro being crucified for saying the obvious?