[Note from Linda: PJB is not running. I added this column because it reminded me of all the excitement and hope for our Country we Buchanan Brigaders had back in 1996 and 2000. We loved "Our Pat" then, and still do today.] ….Almost immediately after Pat Buchanan’s newest book, State of Emergency, became available for purchase, remnants of the Buchanan Brigades, the Peasants with the Pitchforks, and new converts who have been encouraged that someone finally has the courage to recognize that uncontrolled immigration is hurtful to America’s stability began clamoring for him to mount a new run for president. The idea is personally gratifying because I have witnessed, since the GOP vilification of us populists who rallied around Our Pat in 1996, the country become imperiled because Republican leaders have run from the very issues Buchanan has raised since 1992. When I think back to how the party characterized us as a bunch of xenophobic, racist bigots who lived in irrational fear of the great global utopia into which they promised to usher America, I can’t help but to feel a bit smug…