Pat Buchanan really got into the kook category in the 2000 campaign when he announced that the world had to be created in six days because he didn’t want to be kin to a monkey. This has nothing to do with the argument over evolution. It is just plain childish. The idea of grown man saying that is bad, the idea of a serious candidate for national office saying that puts him beyond the pale. That was the day Pat Buchanan put himself in a category with the Vegetarian Party.
Nobody in the media noticed this because they wanted to blame Buchanan’s poll collapse on his limited opposition to immigration. But that was when he became totally discredited. Buchanan always ends up being a harmless religious nut.
The whole right is going that way. They demand that everybody be kept on life support until the body actually begins to stink, the family’s wishes be damned. They fanatically demand the rights of mindless embryos over sick people, they want as much agony as possible for a person who is dying. The actual support for any of this among sane people who have a conscience is nil. The Spanish Inquisition has more real, serious apologists than this crap, but it is rigid conservative doctrine.
It isn’t liberals who are now discrediting conservatives. It is this pseudo-Pro-Life silliness.
I am ashamed to call myself a conservative today. I am anti-liberal, but I am not an idiot or a nut or a sadist.
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