Pat Buchanan is a constant source of wonder to me. I guess I'm amazed at his ability to say stuff that clearly hasn't passed through a human brain... i mean if he'd thought about what he had to say would he say half the stuff he says? the following can be found on
NewsMax
"The only reason Mark Felt is a hero now [is because the person he helped] destroy was Richard Milhous Nixon,"
well... duh.
"I mean, did they make Linda Tripp a hero?" the former Nixon speechwriter asked plaintively. "At least she was public about it."
see this is goofy for two reasons. first, Linda Tripp was blowing the whistle about a blow job in the oval office (not a crime), as opposed to Mark Felt who was blowing the whistle on a conspiracy to cover up the white house's connection to a burglary (a crime). And, second, the right is saying Felt should have told his story to the government and done it publicly... I figure Tripp is a pretty good indication of how he would have been treated by the administration if he had.
But he saves the goofiest for last.
"Let's realize that the FBI has secret files from full field investigations on everybody that served in the highest offices of government," he noted. "And if they start deciding who and what investigations they're gonna leak to the Washington Post, you've got a police state."
Well, we sure wouldn't want that.
Man. I'm speechless.