Palin supported Buchanan. What does this say about McCain's choice?

It turns out that Sarah Palin supported Pat Buchanan’s 2000 presidential campaign. (Earlier today, Buchanan stated ‘It’s great for the base. She’s a Buchananite!’) Pat Buchanan is an outspoken opponent of Israel. It’s one thing to criticize Israel, but the country has a right to exist, and given Palin’s support for Buchanan, pro-Israel activists should be very alarmed about McCain’s commitment to Israel. McCain has suggested James Baker, who famously said ‘F**k the Jews,’ would be his Middle East envoy. Some of Pat Buchanan’s memorable remarks:

ON JEWS

Buchanan referred to Capitol Hill as ‘Israeli-occupied territory.’ (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/20/90)

During the Gulf crisis: ‘There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its ‘amen corner’ in the United States.’ (‘McLaughlin Group,’ 8/26/90)

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler’s anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was ‘an individual of great courage…Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.’ (The Guardian, 1/14/92)

Writing of ‘group fantasies of martyrdom,’ Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: ‘Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.’ (New Republic, 10/22/90) Buchanan’s columns have run in the Liberty Lobby’s Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.

Buchanan called for closing the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which prosecuted Nazi war criminals, because it was ‘running down 70-year-old camp guards.’ (New York Times, 4/21/87)

Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan – despite protests – to visit Germany’s Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried. At a White House meeting, Buchanan reportedly reminded Jewish leaders that they were ‘Americans first’ – and repeatedly scrawled the phrase ‘Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews’ in his notebook. Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan’s line that the SS troops buried at Bitburg were ‘victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.’ (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96)

ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not to visit ‘the Widow King’ on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, warning that a visit would ‘outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse… Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history.’ (New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

In a memo to President Nixon, Buchanan suggested that ‘integration of blacks and whites – but even more so, poor and well-to-do – is less likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable.’ (Washington Post, 1/5/92)

SO, to recap: McCain has picked a VP candidate that supported Pat Buchanan for president. Pat Buchanan a man that thinks that Hitler was a ‘man of great courage’ and Dr. Martin Luther King was a ‘divisive’ man and that integration between blacks and whites will produce friction and thus is a bad thing.

Palin supported Buchanan. McCain selected Palin to be his VP. And McCain has suggested James ‘F**K the Jews’ Baker as his Middle East envoy.

And McCain claims to be pro-Israel.

All the anti-Obamaites were up in arms about his ‘racist’ preacher… Are you okay with the McCain VP’s support of a racist for President?