We just watched our TiVo'ed copy of Meet the Press, and boy, am I floored. Who was that guy masquerading as Pat Buchanan? Bob Graham (D-FL), sitting next to him, could hardly believe it. He kept adding in, "Pat's exactly right..." or "I agree with Pat..." Will Alan Keyes start sounding reasonable next?

Most shocking to me was when Pat made the point Tiffany and I have railed against for years. The Bush Administration consistently plays on the fears of Americans by saying that Muslim extremists kill us because they hate our freedoms, and the American way of life.

BUCHANAN: "I believe it is our policies, not our principles that are causing these attacks.  Osama bin Laden wasn't sitting in some cave in Afghanistan and stumble on the Bill of Rights and go bananas.  It is because of what we are doing.

They attack us because of what we have done, not what we represent. Maybe we support those policies, maybe we don't. But the Administration argues that we don't reason with terrorists because they are crazy, not because their demands are unreasonable. That is the height of irresponsible."¹

Anyway, I was left kind of speechless by Buchanan's arguments. If that really was Pat Buchanan.