Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-07 23:02:42 EDT, nathan newman writes: I'm less excited than interested in it as a piece of evidence on the conservative divisions that are growing and paralyzing much of the rightwing agenda. I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread Doug Henwood
michael wrote: Pat Buchanan might not be a fascist, but I think that we have to give him credit for fashioning the language of hate that has become the mainstay of modern politics. He deserves to share that credit with Kevin Phillips, who has become something of a darling of the liberals these

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
MScoleman wrote: I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest conservatives, however lothesome his beliefs. He has become no less conservative, just evolved into a different species than the liberatarian globalists that came to dominate the Republicans under Reagan.

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-08 12:39:55 EDT, michael perelman writes: MScoleman [DID NOT WRITE THIS -- SOMEONE ELSE DID] wrote: I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest conservatives, however lothesome his beliefs. He has become no less conservative, just evolved

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 03:19 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: valis writes: Get excited if you (pl.) must, but I wouldn't believe Buchanan if he stated the color of his eyes. This loathsome lizard, who has spent his entire life turning sentences around, is simply testing the fickle winds for another crack at the

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread valis
Nathan Newman exults: This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis on

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread James Devine
valis writes: Get excited if you (pl.) must, but I wouldn't believe Buchanan if he stated the color of his eyes. This loathsome lizard, who has spent his entire life turning sentences around, is simply testing the fickle winds for another crack at the presidency, where he'd do...what? I don't

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman exults: This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis on

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread michael
Pat Buchanan might not be a fascist, but I think that we have to give him credit for fashioning the language of hate that has become the mainstay of modern politics. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread Samuel G. Pooley
Just a question, how much credence are we going to give Reagan and Thatcher's tax cuts for economic growth? I see those tax cuts as fueling the speculative commercial real estate and residential building boom that both countries experienced, rather than any increases in real investment. Any

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread john gulick
At 02:05 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Pat Buchanan wrote: But unbridled capitalism is also an awesome destructive force. It makes men and women obsolete as rapidly as it does the products they produce and the plants that employ them. And the people made obsolete and insecure are workers, employees, "Reagan

Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-07 Thread Nathan Newman
This column by Pat Buchanan is remarkable in its near-repudiation of his old boss, Ronald Reagan, arguing that economic conservatism is ultimately the enemy of the social conservatism that is Buchanan's true loyalty. (In this, he echoes scholar Daniel Bell's thesis on the cultural contradictions