re: #559 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think we should hold that passage against Ben Shaprio, though, as it was in service to the righteous cause of smacking down Patrick Buchanan. Bad as Shapiro is, Buchanan is even worse. I find its best to hold fire on the lesser of two evils when said lesser evil is attacking the greater evil instead of you.

My point was that he was defending neoconservatism and saying that it was mainstream conservatism back in 2003, but now he’s claiming that he isn’t a neoconservative.

The funny thing is if anyone wrote that column today, they would be ran out of the party as a RINO. Take this paragraph:

Buchanan holds immigrants in contempt. Not just illegal immigrants — even some who immigrate legally are not fit to be Americans in Buchanan’s eyes. In his book, “The Death of the West,” Buchanan writes that Mexican immigrants are problematic because they are “not only from another culture, but of another race,” and that “different races are far more difficult to assimilate than different cultures.” This is plain un-American. The color of your skin or the racial background of your parents should never disqualify you from becoming a true American. This is the most diverse nation on Earth, even if Buchanan would prefer that it not be.