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Palin, Buchanan Fan?
The Stump — The Nation's Chris Hayes makes an interesting catch: Remember when Pat Buchanan ran a number of hard-right, fringe campaigns for president in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000? Well, guess who was supporting him. From an AP report in 1999: "Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan's strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an ...

Would Palin Still Carry A Pitchfork For Pat?
Wonk Room — Chris Hayes reports that Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan’s 2000 presidential bid. Quoting from a 1999 AP story: Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan’s strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an Interior Republican luncheon in Fairbanks. … Among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah ...

At First Glance, Palin Is A Smart Choice
Open Left - Front Page — ... It will be difficult for the Obama campaign to make an experience argument against Palin. Even though Palin is probably the most inexperienced candidate for vice president in contemporary American history, the Republicans have spent months attacking Obama's supposed lack of experience. So when gnats like Rahm Emanuel issue silly, over-the-top press releases about Palin's career, they re-open an experience debate that John McCain probably wants to have with Obama. 4. As the Nation's Chris Hayes reports, Palin is a die-hard right-winger who could help McCain solidify ...

David Sirota: At First Glance, Palin Is A Smart Choice
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... It will be difficult for the Obama campaign to make an experience argument against Palin. Even though Palin is probably the most inexperienced candidate for vice president in contemporary American history, the Republicans have spent months attacking Obama's supposed lack of experience. So when gnats like Rahm Emanuel issue silly, over-the-top press releases about Palin's career, they re-open an experience debate that John McCain probably wants to have with Obama. 4. As the Nation's Chris Hayes reports, Palin is a die-hard right-winger who could help McCain ...

Palin and Pitchfork Pat
Ross Douthat — Hmmm - could McCain-Palin be the neocon-paleocon fusion ticket we've all been waiting for?

VP Palin: A Pat Buchanan Supporter
TPMCafe — This is great. Not only is she the least qualified candidate for national office in decades, not only is she virulently anti-choice and anti-environmentalist, she's a Pat Buchanan supporter. At least with Joe Lieberman, Mc Cain could have picked up my Aunt fanny in Miami. Now she's voting for Obama!

Palin on Israel
Ben Smith's Blog — ... This, in fact, seems not entirely unlike the attacks on Obama going around in the Jewish community. It's pretty thin. The entire case is based on a 1999 AP article, which described her as "sporting a Buchanan button" at a Buchanan visit to the town of which she was mayor. ...

A VP Pick Made From Desperation
Daily Kos — ... No doubt, voters will note those comments come the fall, along with her abuse of power issues, 2000 Pat Buchanan support and her hard-right ...

MoveOn Does Palin
Discourse.net — ... more oil drilling in Alaska.6 Sources: 1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin 2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008 http://www.naral.org/elections/election-pr/pr08292008_palin.html 3. "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008 http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/350730/sarah_palin_buchananite ...

Palin Is The Perfect Conservative / Republican Pick
Open Left - Front Page — Sarah Palin is a total wingnut: "Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan's strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an Interior Republican luncheon in Fairbanks. ... Among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin and state Sen. Jerry Ward, R-Anchorage." Palin is a total wingnut Buchannite, (check out what that means in ...

Palintology
Firedoglake — ... & Ideology: o The Religious Right - and Grover Norquist - love her.  This was exactly the kowtow from McCain that they were looking for. o Totally anti-choice, even in cases of rape or incest. o Opposes gay marriage and healthcare benefits for gay domestic partners. o Skeptical of evolution and believes that creationism should be taught, or at least "discussed," in the classroom. o Huge Pat Buchanan fan. (Apparently it's not mutual.) o Didn't like Hillary ...

Gamblin’ Man
The American Spectator — ... Palin "perfect." Pat Buchanan offered a more sober assessment of the onetime Buchananite's value to the Republican ticket: "This is the biggest political gamble I have ever seen. She is enormously exciting but if, God forbid, something happens, can she be president?" "Gamble" is exactly the right word. Palin is high-risk but also potentially high-reward. As a relatively young (44) first-term governor of a small state, Palin undercuts the experience argument against Barack Obama as much as Joe Biden undermines Obama's message of foreign-policy prescience and change. If the ...

Is Sarah Palin American enough?
The Reaction — ... So tell me, who is this Sarah Palin other than a pretty face and an empty pantsuit? I'm sorry, but Sarah Palin is dangerous for America. ...

Palin: A Brilliant Trap?
JammieWearingFool — ... . Howie enjoys noting offending comments at right-wing blogs. I wonder whether he'll notice? Meanwhile, the Nation calls her a Buchananite . The comments there are also lovely. Among many offenses, ...

Flailin at Palin
Jules Crittenden — ... . Then there’s Palin, Buchananite . Article suggests it’s more about state’s rights. We’ll find out whether she’s over the isolationism. Her boss doesn’t have that problem. Fournier, the AP scribbler who called a Clinton a Clinton and recently PO’d the left by failing to worship the feet of the Messiah, opines that Palin undercuts McCain’s inexperience hit on Obama. One problem. McCain, unlike Obama, doesn’t have an inexperience problem. It’s a glass half-empty angle that ignores the advantages of bringing in an outside-the-Beltway hockey mom perspective. Meanwhile, more agist ...

Forgetting Sarah Palin--It's McCain's CHARACTER, Stupid!
Open Left - Front Page — ... (4) Palin's Buchananite Past.  Sarah Palin is an appeal to the conservative base.  But she is, apparently, so extreme that she's not even a part of the Republican base, despite holding office as a Republican.  The Nation reports: ...

A Hotbed Of Jews For Buchanan
Eschaton — It's long amazed me that someone with Pat Buchanan's expressed views has managed to remain a pundit in good standing. Given that, it's a bit hard to imagine that any bobbleheads will wonder out loud if Sarah Palin's support of him will mean that McCain has a "Jewish problem." Probably, like everything else, it'll be good news for John McCain. ...

McCain Camp Denies that Sarah Palin was a Member of the Buchanan Brigades in the 1990s
Political Punch — ... McCain Camp Denies that Sarah Palin was a Member of the Buchanan Brigades in the 1990s August 30, 2008 2:23 PM A meme is developing out there among liberals that Gov. Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan in the 1990s, a charge that the McCain-Palin campaign strongly denies. The evidence is the following, as first noticed by "The Nation ": in an Associated Press story from July 17, 1999, titled, "Buchanan takes conservative message to Fairbanks." "Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and ...

Was Sarah Palin a Buchananite?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... , claims that Sarah Palin was a Buchananite based on an AP report that Palin wore a Buchanan button to a Buchanan campaign event in 1999 in the town of Wasilla where she was then mayor. This news led to Democratic congressman Robert Wexler's frothing-at-the-mouth ...

Judgment, Experience, Honor, Country: McCain’s Epic Palin Fail
Firedoglake — ... on her very first day. Don't try to tell us your new running mate didn't really support Pat Buchanan in 2000. Don't look like you are captive to a faction within your party. Don't try to sell America someone ...

Does Palin Have A Connection To The AIP?
Daily Kos — ... That a candidate for Vice-President may be affiliated with such a fringe group would be unfathomable, until we remember that, as Christopher Hayes at The Nation reminds us, Palin is no stranger to fringe politics. Pat Buchanan himself beamed at her VP announcement, stating "I'm pretty sure she's a Buchananite!" ...

The Bridge To Nowhere: News From An Alternate Reality
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... can I say about this woman who told us that she'd break through the marble ceiling, the one which Hillary Clinton mentioned as now having millions of cracks because she came so close to becoming the Democratic candidate for the president? I can say that should Palin somehow succeed in that breaking she'd waste no time in getting the cement mixed and the trowel ready to permanently fill that hole so that no other woman could follow her, ever. I can also ask you to read about Palin's political ...

Palin in Her Church's Pews When Jews for Jesus Founder Spoke - Two Weeks Ago
Daily Kos — ... He’ll also be presenting his mission, to an extent, so we’re familiar with it; and it’s just gonna be a great time together with him.  We’ll be taking a special offering at the end of our time to support that ministry. I encourage your engagement in that. I wonder if Sarah Palin chipped in? Combined with her support for at least two of anti-Semite Pat Buchanan's presidential campaigns (1996 & 2000), I'd say American Jews have plenty of reasons to mistrust the McCain-Palin ticket. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — PALIN'S PALLING AROUND PUBLICLY WITH HER FOURTH ANTI-SEMITE Earlier in the week, I meant to make note of this Huffington Post piece by Geoffrey Dunn, which got lost amidst more important news. It noted that at the Alfalfa Club dinner, Sarah Palin was accompanied by her latest right-wing Republican patron du jour, Fred Malek--the notorious "hatchet man" for Richard Nixon... ... The night before, Malek hosted an even more intimate dinner at his home for Palin and her former running mate, [John] McCain.... ... Malek distinguished himself in the Nixon circles by providing the anti-Semitic president with ...