Now, I do not agree with all of Pat's conservative views. He's a "true conservative" in his words, while I am finding myself to be more of a fiscal conservative, and possibly a political conservative, but a social liberal to be sure. But he's coming out against the Iraq war and the behavior of the Bush administration, which is the part of his rhetoric that I do agree with nearly whole-heartedly.
He blames the neoconservatives amongst the Bush crew for the war and for selling a bill of goods to Bush that led us to that war. I've not read his book, so I don't know if he goes into detail, but he's taking an apologist stance for Bush during his book tour by blaming those neo-cons and not pushing the Truman mantra. Bush is too much of a "team player" and is perhaps unwilling to sell out his buddies, but in so doing he refuses to put the brakes on this morass that is growing worse by the day, and Buchanan isn't calling him on it publicly (not as far as I've heard).
I think John Stewart could have hit him a little bit harder, but they'll be the first to point out that they're a fake news show and little more (despite contentions from their viewership), and he went pretty easy on John Kerry when he was on the show as well. He did ask about why nobody has been fired (Buchanan believes the neo-cons will be out post-November... I'm guessing a whole lot of things will be changing post-November, whichever way it goes), and pressed Pat on the whole "Kerry voted for the war" deal (which, by the way, continues to irritate me-- not necessarily the vote itself but the the way it is spun on both sides) with his interpretation of what went down.
The sound bite that might make the rounds in the coming days has to be Pat answering the "why aren't you running again" question with "Three times and that was it, the American people have spoken to Pat Buchanan's political career." Nice.
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