By Patrick J. Buchanan "What the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked." Thus did political analyst Mitt Romney identify the cause of his defeat in a call to disconsolate contributors. Republicans piled on. Continue reading...
9 November 2012 
Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?
Friday - November 9, 2012 at 12:30 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis. Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Continue reading...
26 October 2012 
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...
19 October 2012 
Will Obama Paint Romney As Warmonger?
Friday - October 19, 2012 at 12:39 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Usually, not always, the peace party wins. Gen. Sherman's burning of Atlanta and March to the Sea ensured Abraham Lincoln's re-election in 1864. William McKinley, with his triumph over Spain and determination to pacify and hold the Philippines, easily held off William Jennings Bryan in 1900. Yet Woodrow Wilson won in 1916 on the slogan, "He Kept Us Out of War!" Continue reading...
Last Hurrah of Nixon’s ‘New Majority’?
Tuesday - August 28, 2012 at 12:57 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Looking back all the way to America's Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln's. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. The second Continue reading...
A Grand Old Party in Panic
Friday - August 24, 2012 at 3:20 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan Whittaker Chambers said that "the great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded." He had it right, as Todd Akin can testify. In an interview that aired last Sunday, Akin, the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, was asked whether he opposed abortions for women who had been raped. Akin's reply: "From what I understand from Continue reading...
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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