You know we’re in trouble when Pat Buchanan makes sense

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.