Is Pat Buchanan suffering from dementia or was he always a racist?

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Just two examples from Pat's latest book. (excerpted from http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/twelve_pretty_racist_or_just_crazy_quotes_from_pat_buchanans_new_book.php)

And although Howard Dean disparages the Republicans as the “white party,” why should Republicans be ashamed to represent the progeny of the men who founded, built, and defended America since her birth as a nation?

One wonders if Pat thinks it was all white people out there picking cotton, stripping tobacco, taming the wilderness, fighting the wars, and cutting and laying up the stone for the Capitol buildings and the White House along the way to "building and defending America since her birth as a nation?"


Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the racial, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic divides today seem greater than they seemed even in the segregation cities some of us grew up in. Watch out when anyone begins a sentence with ("Perhaps"). Or uses it as its own sentence, as George Will is fond of doing. You know something outrageous is going to be said which otherwise wouldn't pass muster in polite company.

Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different schools and churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans.


So Pat thinks whites and brown people "shared a country and a culture" during Jim Crow. Huh. That must come as a big surprise to anyone who actually remembers the time. Maybe we should asks Pat's childhood housekeeper/nanny/cook how much sharing was going on when he "grew up" in Washington, D.C.