Jupiter,

I’m reminded of a question Rick Johnson raised in response to the Gottfried article: Thinking About Obama.

“How is it possible the massive grassroots revolt against amnesty and immigration last summer translated into two candidates for president this year who favor those programs? Could the answer be the big “C” word?’

I always wondered if he meant conspiracy or corporation….then again, perhaps he meant both.

John McCain believes he can strong arm the country into getting along.  It’s the way things are done in the military.  He rejects any acceptance of racial or ethnic realities as “giving up” or “quitting.” He wants to prove to himself he can implement the standard, middle-of-the-road liberalism he grew up with under Truman, FDR, JFK, etc. He is also a creature of DC and lives for positive press. Finally, he just doesn’t like people in general, and he buys the inevitable of a Hispanic bloc view that has led George W Bush to make such disastrous political choices.

He is a right-liberal who is fond of a dictatorial, schoolmarm style.  He wants to give us all a “kick in the butt” to embrace a united America.  It won’t work, at least not until the system of ethnic spoils and the introduction of third world tribal peoples is halted.  But he just think that makes realists a bunch of lazy quitters.

The only core issue that Pat agrees with either party on is the Iraq War. Why is he still so weirdly loyal to the GOP? I’d even be willing to say Affirmative Action is ok, if it meant going against the Iraq War.

Here is a little story for you, one that allegedly happened in Houston many years ago.  A man with a gun walked into a supermarket with the intention of robbing it.  During the course of the robbery the night manager convinced the robber he couldn’t open the safe and to avoid the risk of a charge of armed robbery for whatever paltry sum he might get from the pockets of the employees the robber should just sell the manager his gun.  The transaction was completed, at which point the manager turned the gun on the robber and held him for the police.  The moral of the story is:  money and power usually go hand in hand, but they are not the same and the two should never be confused. 

Mass immigration is a leftist ideological program with its roots in one-worldism that has long since degenerated into a racist loathing of white people and the West.  When it began when nobody talked about jobs the natives wouldn’t do, and it has continued through unemployment and recessions, indeed economic realities have hardly impacted the scope of immigration at all, nor will they short of a depression and threatened revolution since these policies are not driven by economics.  (Other factors such as environment or overcrowding also have not affected the mania.) Businessmen are the junior partners to those with real power, and the chief reason Republicans and public “conservatives” support mass immigration is to avoid the charge of racism.  Here is a selection from Robert Bork’s review of the book “Revolt of the Elites”:

“By defining the elites primarily as money-makers, moreover, Lasch avoids the real problem our elites pose: their cultural and political values. “Efforts to
define a ‘new class’ composed of public administrators and policy makers, relentlessly pushing a program of liberal reforms, ignore the range of political
opinions among the professional and managerial elites.” But this misses the point. The “new class” does not include, as Lasch contends it does, “brokers,
bankers, realestate promoters and developers, engineers, consultants of all kinds, systems analysts, scientists, doctors,” but rather is made up of those in
the second half of his list: “publicists, publishers, editors, advertising executives, art directors, moviemakers, entertainers, journalists, television
producers and directors, artists, writers, university professors.” Only by lumping the two groups together can he claim that there is no common political
outlook. What is distinctive about the latter group is that they influence cultural and political attitudes, as the former group does not. One Oliver Stone
motion picture has far more impact on the way Americans see their country than all the pronouncements of the chairmen of the boards of General Motors, Ford,
Chrysler, Microsoft, and IBM combined. The group to which Mr. Stone belongs is overwhelmingly of leftist disposition. That is the “new class.” When Lasch stops riding the theme of the evils of meritocracy and wealth and the threat they pose to democracy, his book becomes much more interesting. He
eventually forgets about bankers and brokers, and begins implicitly to define elites as comprising his second category, those engaged in ideas and
entertainment. He recognizes that it is these elites, not real-estate developers, who are in revolt against America.”

“Cubans do not vote like La Razans.”

Yeah, they vote like Republicans which isn’t much better. Mel Martinez is our enemy.

Tim,

You said, “The only core issue that Pat agrees with either party on is the Iraq War.” Pat is opposed to Iraq, so I guess you mean he agrees with the Democrats, here???  If so, then why the next statement, “ Why is he still so weirdly loyal to the GOP?” Finally, is the last statement supposed to “come from” Pat or is this your personal thought?  “I’d even be willing to say Affirmative Action is ok, if it meant going against the Iraq War.” Your paragraph, even for all its brevity, is handily incoherent. 

It may be that Pat is still “weirdly loyal to the GOP,” but never for the reasons armchair political analysts on Taki or Chronicles give.  Read above and tell me where Pat endorsed anything by John McCain.  One can point out the weaknesses and possible strengths in a campaign without supporting that campaign.  Its called journalism.

American presidents get so progressively worse it seems today no matter how bad one is
you can bet after 4 years of the next one, we’ll look back fondly on the predecessor. I
predicted 8 years ago on another site that whether or not it was W. bush or Gore we’d
be looking back at Clinton a la NAFTA, Monica, the wanton and cowardly NATO bombing of
Serbia (because there were no endanged whales in tanks on the roofs of their buildings
would have been their only anti-aircraft deterent, against the liberal west), and we
do look back at the Clinton years by comparison with w. Bush, fondly. Although many
would mistakenly believe it is and impossibility to perform a worse job at ruining what’s
left of the country than W. bush already has it’s not. OF COURSE since we’re yet headed
in the same direction policy-wise (another current oxymornon) whether the new president
be McBama, or O’Cain dollars to doughnuts, *you’re on if you’ll take the bet, we’ll be
looking back fondly at good ol’moderate W. We’ll probably be saying things like at least
he could speak a little Spanish, if not English so well. Or for humor’s sake - ‘wouldn’t
it have been funnier if the sign on that battleship right after the invasion of Iraq had read:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHEDMENT’… (and in Spanish?) Si, senior.

mcain won new hampshire basically out of voter igroance and now he thinks he’s a genius.  i saw him the other day being a complete jerk to Diane Sawyer.  congratulations GOP you picked a real strong candidate!! makes 96 seem almost good in comparison

McCain wants to keep the John Hagee Evangelical Warmongers happy.
How can he get the Hillary democrats doing that? Pat Buchanan has
been right on a lot of issues like the Iraq war, but he’s too much
of a politico-religious zealot to see that.

I wish Pat would stop giving McCain advice on how to win. Let him court votes he can never get, what a better way to spend his time?

McCain is an deadly mixture of neo-con foreign policy + social liberalism + new-world-order economics. How he expects to gain voters with that agenda is a mystery.

The problem are not the voters McCain is seeking, it is McCain’s platform. The man is wrong on everything and for everybody. He was the Republican’s second worst candidate (after “Rudy") and currently the world’s second most dangeous man. The Republican party with McCain as its candidate deserves to be obliterated in November. This is no time for Republican nostalgia. Pat and other conservatives need to step aside and let the part self-destruct, rather than come to its aid for old times’ sake.

“I wish Pat would stop giving McCain advice on how to win.”
-Jack Rich (as posted above) That was one of Clyde Wilson’s
“wishes that will never come true” on the chronicles website
that pat would not support the next republican candidate as always.
however it’s how he plays the game, i don’t think he’s less for it
necessarily… look at the game. If it’s the system this silly nonsense
and someone gives you a helmet and says ok, get in there...what are you
going to do, play for the other team? pat’s enormously gifted and
intelligent, so although i have criticized him in the past (once) i almost
immediately saw my own error. so i’m slower to do that now. perhaps pat can
recruited to be one of the folks helping john to learn how to use a computer.
john, it’s just like flying a plane? ... i don’t know, if god wanted us to
fly he would have given us wings. look what we’ve done with flight...a chance
for greater evil.

Jack Rich has it right. The only thing worse than McCain losing is McCain Winning. On every issue that counts he is as bad as Obama and his election will mean the triumph of “McCainism” in the Republican party. The only way to break the stranglehold of the Ford/Bush types is for McCain to lose.

Pat Buchanan, Ex-Conservative

Young John Podhoretz in the New York Post, September 10, 1999 derided Pat Buchanan as being an isolationist, a virulent enemy of Israel, an opponent of immigration and a protectionist.  After warming up, John denounced Buchanan as a radical populist and being the voice of the “bad Reagan Democrats”.

These neerdowells were defined by Podhoretz as being older white working class males who believe the country has been wrested from them by Jews, blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals, with the connivance of the captains of industry and the military-industrial complex.  Bad Reagan Democrats like to inveigh against the culture of victimization, but are among its chief exponents and are very vocal about it and their champion, Pat Buchanan. 

There are not that many of them and they have mostly abandoned politics for the more immediate pseudo-community of the internet.  Keeping these people in the GOP is a fool’s errand for the GOP.  The GOP must present itself as a positive force for the best and most noble aspects of the American character.  People such as myself or my ancestors do not matter.

His father, Norman, denigrated the Son Tay raid in North Vietnam.  The raid was termed incomprehensible unless it was a gesture to persuade the American people that we were making every efforts to save the prisoners when in fact the prisoners were being abandoned.  In this same article Norman ,editor and leading neoconservative intellectual, admitted to opposing the American involvement from the beginning, but conceded he saw no reason to oppose a policy which would prevent a Communist victory as long as American involvement in the war on the ground or in the air was not involved.  Later on in that same article Mr. Podhoretz admitted to being embarrassed in confessing he preferred to see an American defeat to continued “Vietnamization” which would require continued American airpower support.  Much of what he wrote was not much different from that being written by others who were anxious to demonstrate their public probity, but what clearly distinguished Mr. Podhoretz from his contemporaries in sheer galling hypocrisy was a book he wrote in 1982:  Why We Were in Vietnam.  This tome explained the American commitment as if we were trying to defend innocents from barbaric invaders, and our noble effort was only done in by malevolent critics.  At that time Mr. Podhoretz like so many Jews was motivated by what he perceived as American withdraw of support for Israel. 

An amusing literary feuds in recent times has been between Mr. Podhoretz and Gore Vidal, a sometime chronicler of the WASP from the leftist view.  At one time Mr. Vidal had told Mr. Podhoretz that he was writing a play about the Civil War in America.  Mr. Podhoretz told Mr. Vidal that he found the Civil War to be “remote and irrelevant”.  This blasphemy so startled Mr. Vidal that he decided that Mr. Podhoretz had no intention of becoming an assimilated American, but rather he would continue to live among Americans to raise money and make propaganda for Israel.

Jupiter sed: “The corporate model of economic development for America is a low wage economy with isolated defenseless and terrorized Native Born White workers who are forced into a globalized labor market. Post- 1965 immigration policy provides the corporations with an unlimited supply of foreign scab workers who undermine the bargaining power of Native Born White Christian American workers. Power and wealth is transfered away from Native Born White Christian American workers to the corprations.”

We forget that the immigrants are also robbing jobs from the native born Blacks at a far
faster rate then among the white working class. I recently met a black worker laid off
by GM in Detroit, moving to the DC area looking for work as Detroit has been been
destroyed by “free trade”. Ironically, he has went from working in a modern automobile
manufacturing plant to doing lawn work and handy man jobs for the rich white liberal
government workers here in the Maryland suburbs. Working for cash money, competing
directly with the latino immigrants for the same jobs without health care or vacation or
any retirement security. He’s paying $1200 a month for a 1 bedroom, 650 square foot apartment
in a apartment complex in Silver Spring that is full of latino immigrant families in the
same one-bedroom apartment.

America, thanks to the “libertarian” version of “free trade” is going back to the 1930’s
economy portrayed in the old comic series, Mutt and Jeff, of single men living in boarding houses, and
and a economy consisting of push cart “entrepreners”, child labor, whole families living
in tenements doing piece work that is cheaper then setting up factories...in other words, MEXICO.

I would agree with you on the your commentary, with the exception that this immigration a’
and “multiculturalism” hurts native born blacks and browns much worse then it hurts
white

McCain Obama Love Hate Vote Base Box

McCain hates his base

McCain’s base votes for McCain

Obama loves his base.

Obama’s base votes for Obama.

I would do it as a box in 2d but can’t here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_diagram

Obama is a star.  McCain/Republicans are cash cow.  Star has high market growth and high market share.  Cash cow has high market share but low growth.  Dog has low market share and low growth. Republicans are becoming dogs.