26 October 2012 McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?

McGovern & Goldwater: Losers or Winners?

Friday - October 26, 2012 at 1:29 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Early in Ronald Reagan's second term, Bill Rusher, the publisher of National Review, was interviewing the president in the Oval Office for a documentary on the conservative movement. Rusher asked how he would describe Barry Goldwater's role. Reagan thought a moment and replied: I guess you would have to call him the John the Baptist of our movement. I resisted Continue reading...

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A Godless Party Expels the Creator

Thursday - September 6, 2012 at 11:53 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan The authors of the Democratic platform have inadvertently revealed to the world the sea change that has taken place in that party we once knew. For the first time -- and in the longest Democratic platform in history, 26,000 words -- there was not a single mention of God, the Creator, whom Thomas Jefferson himself, father of the party, proclaimed to be the author of our Continue reading...

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On the Chick-fil-A Front of the Culture War

Friday - August 3, 2012 at 2:34 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Two weeks ago, Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, an Atlanta company famous for its juicy chicken sandwiches, appeared on "The Ken Coleman Show" to air his biblical belief that those who champion same-sex marriage are risking divine retribution upon us all. "We are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to Continue reading...

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Obama’s Race-Based Spoils System

Friday - August 26, 2011 at 1:11 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Chester Arthur was a most unlikely reformer. A crucial cog in the political machine of the Empire State's Sen. Roscoe Conkling, he was named by President Grant to the powerful and lucrative post of collector of customs for the Port of New York. Arthur was removed in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes, who wanted to clean up the federal patronage system. But when Continue reading...

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The Long Retreat of Liberalism

Tuesday - July 19, 2011 at 1:18 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Though President Obama has run rings about the Republican Party in the debt-ceiling debate, that party can yet emerge victorious, if it will stick to its guns. Clearly, the Republican strategy was not thought through, when the party chose the debt ceiling as the legislative terrain on which to fight its fiscal war. The president had wanted a clean debt-ceiling Continue reading...

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A GOP That Can Say No

Friday - August 7, 2009 at 1:45 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature. Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ's scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with crony Abe Fortas, before Nixon got to the Oval Office, has the GOP defied this city and voted to reject a liberal judicial activist for the court. In 1970, after revelations of scandal forced Fortas to Continue reading...

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Cheney Shows the Way

Tuesday - May 26, 2009 at 10:20 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Dick Cheney is giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go onto the attack. The ground on which Cheney has chosen to stand is the most defensible the Republicans have: homeland security. In seven-and-a-half years after 9-11, not one terrorist attack struck our Continue reading...

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