We were just talking about how odd it is that all of these hard-right conservatives seem to "accidentally" find themselves advocating racist things , and popping up like a garden gopher comes ... Pat Buchanan? Wow, we haven't heard from Pat for a while; I assume that he fell behind the cushions of a green room couch, way back when, only to be discovered again last week, curled and shriveled, by some very surprised re-upholsterer.

Pat's reemergence comes in the form of an essay for conspiracy site WorldNetDaily, which career-wise is only slightly more embarrassing than being mistaken for couch lint. As usual, Pat's going on about how white folks are being overrun by pesky minorities, and that's bad because minorities don't like the Republican Party, possibly for all that stuff Republicans did. He calls it the "crisis of the Grand Old Party," and isn't happy about certain new Republican efforts:



Led by Sens. Marco Rubio, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Republicans are pushing for amnesty and “a path to citizenship” for the 11 to 12 million illegal aliens in the country today. Who are these folks? Perhaps half are Hispanic, but 90 percent are people of color who, once registered, vote 4-to-1 Democratic. One would not be surprised to hear that the Senate Democratic Caucus had broken out into chants of “Go, Marco, Go!”

Wow, only half are Hispanic but a full 90 percent are Colored Folks? That's a lot of Colored Folks. I can see why Pat's all worked up.

Pat, of course, has a different idea of what to do about the Colored Folks, which is to do exactly what the Republican Party has done about Colored Folks for the last half-century. He blames Bush and other Republicans for not sufficiently re-embracing the wildly successful (and wildly racist) Southern Strategy. I wish I were kidding. Pat's wisdom, below the fold:

