Pat Buchanan's "August Surprise"...new book "Where The Right Went Wrong"

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http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/22/le.00.html

BLITZER: What does he need to do at the convention, the president, in order to get a bounce out of his own convention?

DOLE: What he needs to do is what I was never very good at, and that's sticking to your message and talking about leadership and talking about global terror and talking about taxes and talking about values and talking about what he's done for Medicare, the Medicare drug benefit.

BLITZER: Speaking of the far-right wing of the Republican Party, Pat Buchanan has a new book that's coming out. The New York Times reported on it today: "Where the Right went Wrong." And he goes after the president, this President Bush, just as he went after his father in '92. "The Iraq invasion is the greatest strategic blunder in 40 years. If prudence is the mark of a conservative, Mr. Bush has ceased to be a conservative." Pat Buchanan I assume still has some following out there among some conservatives.

DOLE: Some. You know, Pat's a great writer. But he's always been sort of an isolationist. So it doesn't surprise me. But you know, he's one of those. Is he going to vote for John Kerry? I don't think so. I think he'll support Bush. He's disappointed in Bush when he measures him by his standards. But Buchanan didn't get a nomination, as I know of, as I recall. But anyway, that's his right, it's his view. It's a free country. It's the same with the people on the swift boats, on both sides. It's a free country. All these people might be telling it how -- truthfully as they see it some 30 years later.

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From the Publisher

A searing indictment of the Bush Administration by the three-time presidential candidate and bestselling author of DEATH OF THE WEST.
WHERE THE RIGHT WENT WRONG chronicles how Beltway conservatives have abandoned their principles, and how a tiny cabal hijacked U.S. foreign policy, and have ignited a "war of civilizations" with the Islamic world that will leave America's military mired in the Middle East for a generation.

At the same time, these Republicans have forsaken the American worker and become a party to Big Government that sells its soul to the highest bidder.

A damning portrait of the present masters of the GOP, WHERE THE RIGHT WENT WRONG calls to task the Bush administration for its abandonment of true conservatism including:

-The neo-conservative cabal -- liberal wolves in conservative suits.

-Why the Iraq War has widened and imperiled the War on Terror.

-How current trade policy outsources our industrial power.

-Ignoring a cultural war that is destroying America's freedom and heritage.

[bryant69]

1. It's an unusual situation

It's hard to say; if they had done all the stuff Buchannen wants them to do, would things be better or worse? Well we wouldn't have invaded Iraq. But domestically things would be a lot worse; I don't know what Buchannen means by the cultural war, but I can't think that his plans for it are any good.

Bryant
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2. socially, i couldn't disagree more with Buchanan

but foreign policy-wise, I'd take his opinion and thoughts very seriously.