Pat Buchanan to endorse Bush tomorrow

[Silent Hunter]

What? Mr. Isolationist endorsing Bush?

[Democratic Hawk]

Well Bush's welcome to 'im!

Dave

[phillies]

Has anyone actually seen this endorsement?

[JNB]

Why would Buchanan endorse Bush? The president believes in a host of things that Pat utterly rejects, like democracy as a universal goal for humankind and an end to racism. Are candidates allowed to reject endorsements?

  Ah yes democracy, an instituion t hat gave the world Hitler, Allende in Chile,  Chavez in Ven. and almost turned Spain communist in the 30s, not to mention it almost turned Algeria over to Islamic radicals in the eraly 90s.

  As I told you many months ago M, democracy does not allways work out, not all societies are equipped to handle democracy.

[DFLofMN]

Wow, now I guess this seals up the toothless, bow legged slack-jaw vote for Bush.  I was getting worried for him with this demographic!  There goes Peroutka's last chance to be known as a spolier in '04.  Without this endorsement his political career is over!

[dougrhess]

I wonder if Pat really will do it. He HATES the first Bush; feels they let down the Reagan Revolution.

Here's a good joke: "Why wasn't Pat Buchanan's campaign announcement speech shown with close-captioning on CSpan?"  "They didn't have the font with umlauts."  ;-)

[opebo]

That's a straight-up lie. Buchanan is against imperialism. Hell, he wrote a book titled "A Republic, not an Empire" (very good by the way).

Buchanan is not crazy at all. Usually, people just make things up about him out of thin air, because the truth is that Buchanan is a smart, knowledgeable guy.

But he is full of hatred.
He is isolationist He wants the US out of the world.

The hatred he peddles isn't much different from the hatred Bush peddles.  I suppose if you've got a pair of intolerants, the one that's an isolationist is preferable because he only ruins one country.

[acsenray]

It's not exactly a ringing endorsement. Basically, Buchanan hates liberals, Democrats, and Kerry so much that he doesn't see any option. Plus, he's afraid that if Kerry's elected then the Republicans will successfully blame the Iraq blunder on the Democrats instead of on the neo-conservatives:

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[phillies]

Has anyone actually seen this endorsement?

His magazine ran a series of columns, urging votes for Bush, Kerry, Nader, Badnarik, and Peroutka.

The columns were all well-written.

[Bono]

Actually, Pat«s move is strategic and very smart. If Bush wins, Iraq will fall appart under neo-con watch, thus discrediting the movement forever, and allowing true conservatives to take the party away from them. Kudos for Pat.

[Democratic Hawk]

According to Drudge on his radio show. 
Welcome back home, Pat.

The Republican Party is very welcome to him!

Dave