Do you agree with Pat Buchanan, former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan?

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Pat Buchanan: GOP, Party of Smaller Government, Dying Out Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:17 AMBy: Rick Pedraza Article Font Size MSNBC political analyst Patrick Buchanan says the GOP is all but dead and wonders whether it can even be called a national party anymore. Buchanan, an author and former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, wrote in his syndicated column Tuesday that the “new majority” gains made during those previous administrations are but a distant memory. He expressed fear that the country is turning away from the GOP creed of small government and low taxes “Demographically, philosophically and culturally, the party base has been shrinking since Bush I won his 40-state triumph over Michael Dukakis,” Buchanan wrote. “Indeed, the Republican base is rapidly becoming a redoubt, a Fort Apache in Indian country.” In the commentary piece, Buchanan offered up National Journal writer Ron Brownstein’s grim prognosis of the Republican Party's chances of recapturing the White House any time soon, noting that the Democrats have won the past five elections in 18 states and the District of Columbia, with 248 electoral votes among them. Those 18 include California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and all but New Hampshire in the six states that make up New England. Additionally, in four of the past five elections, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Mexico all have gone Democratic, and Virginia and Colorado have begun turning blue. "State by state, election by election, Democrats since 1992 have constructed the party's largest and most durable Electoral College base in more than half a century,” Buchanan quotes Brownstein as saying. “Call it the blue wall."Buchanan noted that the Democratic base “is becoming so solidified it may block any Republican from regaining the White House, in the absence of a catastrophically failed Democratic president.” Buchanan cited two reasons he believes the Republicans have lost so much ground to the Democrats since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992: 1) The majority of younger, college-educated voters are turning increasingly to the Democratic Party in a counterculture attack on the issues of abortion, same-sex marriage, and affirmative action. 2) Republican voters are aging, while Democratic voters, “fed by high immigration and a high birth rate among immigrants,” are expanding. Nearly 90 percent of legal and illegal immigrants are poor or working class and are forced to rely on government help with health, housing, education, and welfare, Buchanan noted, adding that nearly 40 percent of wage earners have dropped from the tax rolls because of tax cuts. “If one pays no federal income tax but reaps a cornucopia of benefits, it makes no sense to vote for the party of less government,” Buchanan concluded.Bill G-It is not my speech it is Pat Buchanan's statement. I don't need a stump but he does!Pfo-It is Buchanan's drivel, not mine. I can only say if you don't like it don't read it.
 
Reagan wasn't even a true Republican. He cut taxes and increased government spending.
 
Buchanan's form of isolationist conservatism died out long ago. Conservatism is not dead. You need to remember that BO won by a slim margin. This country is split almost 50/50 between conservatism and liberalism. The swing went to Obama this time because the economy tanked. Liberalism is NOT sweeping the country.Why don't you go find a stump to stand on the next time you want to make a speech?
 
They voted for George W Bush who increased the size of government astronomically. Are they sure they believe in smaller government? BTW- govt. regulation of the mortgage lenders would have help prevent the banking crisis. See, big govt. isn't always bad.PSST - Reagan only cut taxes his first year. After he really started to build up the military and running up a big deficit, he increased taxes every year after 1981.
 
Buchanan often makes statements out of touch with conservatives, he has no position to determine the future of the Republican party. His traitorous appearances on MSNBC are to delight liberals that want to hear the drivel you are posting before us. His opinions are irrelevant and time will and has proven this.
 
Yeah that "Republican" thing didn't work out so now the right are starting to call themselves anti-Democrats instead.
 
Pat Buchannan was a radical white separatist and racist. He has since changed his ways, but I do not trust him.
 
Buchanan is no dummy. He sees the writing on the wall and has said so time and time again on McLaughlin Group show on PBS Sundays. He's still very conservative, but with the republicans gutting all regulation out of the banking industry they cut their own political throats when the whole system collapsed or nearly did.The only real stronghold the republicans have now is Oklahoma and the population there isn't high enough to effect the rest of the nation and Texas is abandoning the republicans as well. Oklahoma will follow sooner or later having been very much a traditional democratic stronghold as well.But don't worry, but parties have switched positions over the years on several occasions.The thing is though is that the general population has finally realized that conservative politics as usual just don't cut it anymore in a cut throat word. We no longer have the option of bombing the rest of the world into submission.Obama's organizational skills along with those of Dr. Scream plain out outfoxed anything the arrogance of the republican party could come up with. They smoked and left the republican party in the dust..in very short order.
 
A big problem is practically everybody associates 'conservative" to "republican" thanks largely to the Rove/Rush/Billo media types -but really moderate America is a majority - screwed by Bush on the economy, and all the Bush cronies who have spent the last 8 years singing in harmony about how bad everyone who is not them is, the republicans have lost sizeable chunks of their "base" -A very real fact is that there are a lot of conservative democrats - who do not want to lose their jobs, homes, and health insurance to rich elitist Wall Streeters who spent years in the republican pockets -No days if the world finds out your company has been milking the middle class and enjoying private jets and pricey luxuries off the backs of yours and mine retirement funds and lost everything- Well, the rublicans will have hell to pay and a giant mountain to climb - only a few brain-dead Rush limbaugh believers will follow - at least until starvation sets in.
 
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