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Zambero

(8,965 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:34 AM Jul 2015

Pat Buchanan explains to GOP why Iran is a done deal

I don't agree with Buchanan very often, but he is spot on here with a carefully crafted analysis of what options the GOP has for dismantling this deal. In a word: None.

http://news.yahoo.com/gops-iran-dilemma-070000039.html?bcmt=comments-postbox

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Pat Buchanan explains to GOP why Iran is a done deal (Original Post) Zambero Jul 2015 OP

He's a blowhard, but he's a CORRECT blowhard in this instance! The money quote... MADem Jul 2015 #1

I'm not as much surprised by Buchanan's reasonableness (is that a word?) Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2015 #2

My exact thought. Not only does Buchanan give a well reasoned argument for why OregonBlue Jul 2015 #3

One thing I noticed about him back when I watched PBS' political Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2015 #5

Krazy Uncle Pat is a paleocon, not a neocon. hifiguy Jul 2015 #4

I wish the GOP had more paleos Reter Jul 2015 #6

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. He's a blowhard, but he's a CORRECT blowhard in this instance! The money quote...

Reply to Zambero (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:40 AM

Jul 2015

A Congressional vote to kill the Iran deal would thus leave the U.S. isolated, its government humiliated, unable to comply with the pledges its own secretary of state negotiated. Would Americans cheer the GOP for leaving the United States with egg all over its face?

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)

2. I'm not as much surprised by Buchanan's reasonableness (is that a word?)

Reply to Zambero (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:44 AM

Jul 2015

I've always thought he is not an idiot. He is an asshole but not a stupid one. What surprised me is the level of reasonable comments in the Yahoo comments section. I had to look 3 times to confirm I was reading Yahoo.

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)

3. My exact thought. Not only does Buchanan give a well reasoned argument for why

Reply to Guy Whitey Corngood (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:23 PM

Jul 2015

the GOP has to accept the Iran deal, the Yahoo comments are in agreement with him. Has hell frozen over?

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)

5. One thing I noticed about him back when I watched PBS' political

Reply to OregonBlue (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 01:49 PM

Jul 2015

bullshit shows. Is that when he's saying some stupid shit (that he knows is just absolute horseshit that he doesn't even buy himself ) just to toe the party line (when he feels he has to). He just laughs out loud. I don't know if I'm reading too much into it. But I could swear that's his tell. When defending tea bagging nonsense you can see it in full display. It's fascinating to me. I don't know if anyone else concurs with this.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

4. Krazy Uncle Pat is a paleocon, not a neocon.

Reply to Zambero (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 01:47 PM

Jul 2015

Still nuts, but a different kind of nuts. IIRC he wasn't all that happy about the Chimpster's Iraq war either.

Here he is absolutely right, as amazing as that is.

Reter

(2,188 posts)

6. I wish the GOP had more paleos

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #4)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 02:06 PM

Jul 2015

They are almost nonexistent. Tom McClintock is the only one I can think of.

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