The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Why conservatives did not defend Pat Buchanan’s job at MSNBC



It’s not just those known as neo-conservatives who have always loathed PB for his stands on anything related to Israel.

Even William F. Buckley, Jr., himself, personally joined in the early waves of denunciation when PB tried for the Republican presidential nomination, branding him an anti-Semite in an age when even among conservatives the label is, as the liberals like to say, “toxic.”

And nowadays it’s pretty much everything he has to say about foreign affairs that ticks off most of those who claim to be Goldwater/Reagan movement conservatives.

He has urged repeatedly that Obama has been better in foreign policy than McCain or Romney seemed at all likely to be.

He has urged a general American withdrawal from our vast and unnecessary and unsustainable global military obligations.

He has had much kinder words for Ron Paul’s foreign policy views than for any other contemporary Republican in a long time.

And here he berates the Republican senators for ignoring the big questions where America’s interests truly lie in favor of silly and even bigoted partisan carping in disgraceful service to the foreign policy concerns of The Lobby and nothing else.

Oddly, he continues to defend Reagan's record in foreign affairs and continues to claim the mantle of Reaganism in that area, exactly as do the neocons and his other globo-interventionist conservative and Republican opponents.

Interesting, no?

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