Bay Buchanan: North Korean nuke test "excellent news for Republicans"

[Human Torch]

...echoing a sentiment already expressed elsewhere today.

Video: N. Korea nuke test 'excellent news for Republicans'

RAW STORY
Published: Monday October 9, 2006

On CNN today, a key Republican figure suggested that North Korea's nuclear test was good for the GOP.

"If there's any chance that this story can move the Foley story just a notch or two over to the left, this is excellent news for Republicans," said GOP strategist Bay Buchanan, appearing on CNN's The Situation Room along with host Wolf Blitzer.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_N._Korea_Nuke_t...

[niyad]

1. "move the foley story a notch or two to the left'???? what in the HELL

does that mean? another dig at liberals?

[goclark]

2. Can she go to rehab with Mel Gibson? nt

[goclark]

3. Duplicate

[Skittles]

4. I beg to differ, you fucking repuke whore

your man bush has got us bogged down in Iraq while ignoring every other concern - FUCK YOU BUCHANAN

[rpannier]

5. Yes...another failure in scrub diplomacy

is a victory for the GOP.

[brentspeak]

6. Thank you, Ms.Buchanan, for telling us where the GOP's priorities

really lie.

[Human Torch]

7. Here's the thread I posted earlier today...

...a "political expert-slash-effing idiot" from MSNBC:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Nite Owl]

8. Their spin doesn't even make

sense any more, it sounds so desperate. Your boy is a failure, again Ms Buchanan!

[bigdarryl]

9. This is not a good for the rethugs shes delutional

Bush talked shit calling N.Korea axis of evil and on his watch they now have nukes. so this Bey Buchanan is grasping at straws

[Champion Jack]

10. I love the smell of desperation ...it smells like

VICTORY

[AX10]

11. Actually, this is bad for the GOP. North Korea tested a nuclear...

weapon of Bush's watch. Clinton was able to prevent such a thing from every occuring.
This is bad for the GOP.

[BootinUp]

12. Was it good for the country too? (#*$&(**@#!@@#!!@!

self centered assholes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. And what will Bush and the GOP do about it? 0.

0.

That's it, 0.

[WePurrsevere]

14. What will Bush & the GOP do about it? Using their "logic"... invade Iran

n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Or some third world impoverished country.

Just to make it look easy.

[drm604]

15. An insane communist dictator has nuclear weapons.

What kind of loon considers that good news in any way shape or form?

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. For a second I thought you meant Bush.

[Justice]

18. so people will forget about pedophile b/c of nuclear fear?

wow. guess you gotta go with the hand you are dealt, but wow. pretty desparate. Bet she would be happiest if there were a major terrorist attack in the US.

[Human Torch]

19. The Republicans see Foley as a "Democrat distraction"...

...instead of what he is. A child molester.

I don't believe the rehab crap. I don't believe a priest bent him over. I believe that they are BOTH lies from the GOP spin machine. I believe he likes to talk to 16 year old boys, and encourage them to measure their penises, and to assure them that he'd love to pull down their undies. I also believe that he is a sick bastard who needs help. The alcohol bullshit and clergy molestation bullshit is a smokescreen to get the GOP over the mid-term hump.

[IndianaGreen]

20. This happened because of Bush's miserable failures

President Clinton kept North Korea contained and nuke free for 8 years. Bush screws all of that up, practically pushing North Korea to develop nukes.

Bay Buchanan should get a vibrator and shut the fuck up!

In New Jersey, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — in a tight race with Republican Tom Kean Jr. — issued a statement saying that the Korean nuclear test “illustrates just how much the Bush administration’s incompetence has endangered our nation.”

Charge that Bush ignored Korea

“We invaded Iraq, the country that didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, and ignored Iran and North Korea, the two that did,” Menendez said.

A potential 2008 Democratic presidential contender, Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin issued a statement denouncing Bush for using the vehicle of six-nation talks involving China and Japan to try to persuade North Korea to forego its nuclear weapons ambitions.

Sunday’s nuclear test, Feingold said, showed “the weakness of the Six Party approach as well as the danger of this Administration's hands-off approach to North Korea.”

He added, “the stakes are too high to rely on others to address the North Korean crisis.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15199174/

[leesa]

21. My...she is seriously mentally ill. She said this in public?!?

[whirlygigspin]

22. good for a day, bad in a few...

Bay may be right, for a very short time, but this whole thing belies Bush's claim to 'special' wartime powers and undercuts the claim on Iran when it appears that the administration was totally clueless about a nuclear explosion in North Korea.

I ask you this question Bay:

Why should any American trust the Bush administration to protect them when they get surprised with nukes? It makes them look incompetent or stupid, or both.

Not good

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. That talkign point started wtih Andrea

Mitchel barely an hour after the announcement

You'll have to give it to pubbies, they are good at making hash of any bad news.

[Rockholm]

24. Bay, It SHOULD BE.."Bad news for America."

Fuck you Bay.

[JNelson6563]

25. Bad for America = Good for GOP

Standard stuff.

[Supersedeas]

26. GOP Image trumps SUBSTANCE for the American people