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Article: Crackpot Pat Plants His Flag: Buchanan will never play political power broker as the candidate who's soft on Hitler.(Pat Buchanan's new book critical of World War II generation)(BETWEEN THE LINES)(Nation)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- October 4, 1999
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In 1996, I saw Pat Buchanan give his brilliant "peasants with pitchforks" speech at a crowded Sunday rally in New Hampshire. Although he's a phony populist--he supports windfall tax cuts for the rich--the name "Pitchfork Pat" stuck. But after last week, Buchanan will forever be "Crackpot Pat," the man who managed, at his moment of maximum leverage over the American political system, to dishonor "the greatest generation."
Give John McCain credit for shrewd deployment of principle: he calmly derided Buchanan's views on World War II and said he had no place in the Republican Party. George W. Bush, choosing his political hide over bedrock historical principle, urged ...