Pat Buchanan's Latest Book
Published August 22, 2004
From here:
Buchanan is set to launch his new work WHERE THE RIGHT WENT WRONG: How Neoconservatives Subverted The Reagan Revolution And Hijacked the Bush Presidency — a work ripe with cutting observation and opinion.RIGHT WENT WRONG is not set for release until September 1, but DRUDGE breaks the embargo on the book:
On Conservatives and Conservatism:
"There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese." (Page 9)
"The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother." (Page 176)
"Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric." (234)
"[A] civil war is going to break out inside the Republican Party along the old trench lines of the Goldwater-Rockefeller wars of the 1960s, a war for the heart and soul and future of the party for the new century." (234)
On the Neoconservatives:
"[T]he boat people of the McGovern revolution." (37)
"Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists." (250)
"Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism." (48)
On the Bush Doctrine:
"[A] prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics." (6)
The Bush National Security Strategy "is the imperial edict of a superpower out to exploit its present supremacy to make itself permanent Lord Protector of the universe." (26)
"This is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about." (35)
On the War in Iraq:
RJ Elliott is a graduate student studying Criminal Justice at the University Of Central Florida. His likes include nature, sports, and pierced blondes. He dislikes daytime television, left-wing dictators, and lead-tainted Chinese imports. He is ambivalent about Angelina Jolie.
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i get weary of his predictable "schtick"
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He's a "True Conservative" -- which, as I've mentioned many times before -- is a political philosophy that is inherently appalled by the actions of the Bush Administration.
I never thought I'd be nostalgic for a True Conservative, but the radical motherfuckers in the Bush League make me teary-eyed thinkin' about the likes of Pat.
At least the guy had some concept of honesty and intellectual integrity.