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  •  To be fair, even what the GOP offers.. (0+ / 0-)

    ...is different from Buchanan. He's not even very well-received or appreciated in his own party and that's saying a lot.

    HR 676 is the best health reform proposal worth my vote.

    by kck on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 04:09:05 PM PDT

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    •  Why then, is he all over my TV (5+ / 0-)

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      and in print every week? They like him because he'll say what they can't. They can say it's just him, while secretly cheering him on because he's scaring people into voting for them.
      I've had enough, and I'm calling them on it. If they want to criticize Obama for something his pastor said, Then they have to take responsibility for enabling and encouraging Buchanan for the last twenty years.

      "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan

      by atlliberal on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 04:12:34 PM PDT

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    •  Well....to be fair (5+ / 0-)

      He's not on the fringes of the party. Pat Buchanan was a Nixon speech writer, Communication Director for Reagan, and ran as a Republican presidential candidate three times. He's wacky but mainstream... which seems to fit the party description just fine.

      •  Well, he ran but in terms of success... (0+ / 0-)

        ...IMO he's more persistent than appreciated in the GOP. He worked for Ford also and ran as a Republican twice, his third run in 2000 was in something called the Reform Party. I alway thought of PB as one of the first culture war types as apart from the original conservative Republicans - one of the first to start mixing religion and politics.  

        HR 676 is the best health reform proposal worth my vote.

        by kck on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 05:08:20 PM PDT

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