Where the Right Went Wrong, According to Pat Buchanan

Posted on August 22, 2004

Matt Drudge breaks the imbargo on Pat Buchanan's fiery new book, Where the Right Went Wrong (Thomas Dunne Books), which describes the current battle in the Republican party, between the Neocons and the Old Republicans, who traditionally are fiscally conservative and favor a more isolationist approach to foreign policy, e.g., no nation-building.

The excerpts listed by The Drudge Report show that Buchanan pulls no punches....

On the War in Iraq: "[L]istening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about. We won the war in three weeks -- and we may have lost the Islamic world for a generation."

"[I]f Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will be a ferocious fight in this country over who misled us and who may have lied us, into war....into the dock will go the neoconservatives whose class project this was..."

On Bush's Free Trade Policies: "It is false to say President Bush presided over a 'jobless recovery.' His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China."

So does Pat Buchanan think John Kerry offers hope to Old Republicans? "There is simply nothing that [Kerry-led Democrat] party offers to the Right."

Nope, apparently not.