News that Pat Buchanan is starting a new magazine to "reclaim the conservative movement" demonstrates the extent that his star has fallen in recent years. It is hard to believe that not all that long ago he was viewed as the conservative conscience of the Republican Party when he now appears to be nothing more than a clownish character moving periously closer to the lunatic fringe of the Right. Consider these comments:

His new magazine, he promises, will be a forum for his battle against the neoconservative Weekly Standard and National Review.
"We're trying to take back the good name of conservatism from these right-wing impersonators," he said.

While the National Review is certainly not above criticism to say that it does not represent conservatives and is run by "right-wing impersonators" is absurd.

Then you look at who Pat has gotten into bed with on this latest venture and you realize just how marginal a player he has become:

The money behind the magazine comes from Theodoracopulos, who inherited it from his father, a shipping tycoon. In the new magazine, Theodoracopulos writes, "My main aim is to remind Americans that since we are a predominantly white society rooted in Christianity, our responsibility to immigrants is to bring them into our culture, not the other way around.

Labels: Politics-National (02-04)

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