Some notes from his presentation:
He had four main areas where he thought W was totally out of step with the conservative ideology (which Buchanan feels that Barry Goldwater best typified):
Illegal immigrants: We have to defend our borders against the invasion. Basically, they're from too close to actually consider themselves Americans. They can just drive home. Immigrants from Asia and Europe and Africa knew they were stuck here so they developed loyalty to country.
Free trade vs sending jobs overseas: It's destroying our economy. One job here for every $20k in spending yet 10 in China for that amount so the trade deficits are huge impact on our way of life. Favored having mutual duties (20% tariffs) in all countries to encourage countries that want to sell in the country to build plants here like Japanese car manufacturers did. Thinks we're essentially selling our souls with our one-way transfers to China.
Budget (too many social programs): Bush hasn't vetoed anything which is almost unheard of and W is big-government to the hilt. Buchanan felt we needed to be cutting federal spending.
Iraq total mistake: Afghanistan made sense but Iraq has left us open to an endless occupation and radicalized the area, all for an unjustifiable reason. (Obviously the WMD claim was lunacy.). We could have dealt with Saddam who wasn't an actual threat to our country. Either is Syria. Disagrees with a foreign policy that basically ignore ...More...
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