Pat Buchanan: McCain "Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi" [VIDEO]

Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress at 11:12 AM on February 6, 2008.

Paul Begala adds, "If McCain wins, he's running for a third term for Bush. He wants to make Bush's Iraq war and economic program permanent."

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On the NBC Today Show, liberal radio host Rachel Maddow, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, and Democratic strategist Paul Begala discussed the importance of "change" in the upcoming election. Voters want a "clean break from Bush," argued Maddow. Begala added that McCain does not represent that type of change:

BEGALA: If McCain wins, he's running for a third term for Bush. He wants to make Bush's Iraq war permanent, Bush's economic program permanent.

Buchanan concluded the segment by arguing that McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi." Watch it to your right.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress released a video documenting the fact that the leading Republican candidates are mimicking Bush's policies and are looking to institute a third Bush term.

Tagged as: mccain, maddow, buchanan, today show, lauer, begala

Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.

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There's nothing funny about that. [Report this comment] Posted by: maxpayne on Feb 6, 2008 12:15 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] McPAIN is just a mere puppet who will continue Bush's nasty policies, PERIOD. Not that Hillary will be any different either. When the media can make fun of real heroes like Gandhi, it just goes to show that the media is sick puppied ! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: There's nothing funny about that. Posted by: rinthy They laugh..... [Report this comment] Posted by: kgs1947 on Feb 7, 2008 4:30 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] but it's extremely frightening to me! I wonder if the rest of the nation appreciates the disaster we would be in if McCain wins the presidency! Impeachment isn't good enough for Bush or Cheney. Only a War Crimes Tribunal can give us justice. If McCain wins, then I think our nation is down the sewer for a very long time! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: They laugh..... Posted by: stangman89 I saw this... [Report this comment] Posted by: ZenQuixote on Feb 7, 2008 6:49 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] and a chill went straight up my spine... If by some strange chance this broken old man gets elected... we're all dead. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Watch the change! [Report this comment] Posted by: Doubtom on Feb 7, 2008 7:35 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] As McCain gets closer to the nomination, watch him morph into a calm slow talking and soothing voice of reason. Anyone who really knows McCain, knows that this is all an act. His true short-tempered nature is merely being subordinated for the moment until he secures the presidency and then he'll return to the mercurial whip-lasher that is the real McCain. He will take his cues from what Bush/Cheney were able to get away with and add much more of his own while claiming that he's saving the nation from the "evils out there". Save the nation from this phony hero! It is not heroic merely to fall captive in a war. Or as McCain himself has said, "It doesn't take a hero to get shot down". Being a prisoner does not confer heroism: it may be unfortunate but its not heroic. In other more war-like nations, (if that's possible) it was considered a disgrace to be captured; I suspect McCain knows this very well, which is why he discourages mention of his POW status. This is an extremely angry person with many unresolved issues, who doesn't belong anywhere near the presidency. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Watch the change! Posted by: monkeywrench » pow war vet Posted by: davidg » RE: Watch the change! Posted by: VZEQICVA salamah mahdi [Report this comment] Posted by: salamah on Feb 7, 2008 8:21 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] As if MacCain on his own was not bad enough, who could have missed his Iago standing right behind him in support. Imagine the two of them as President & Vice-President in 2009! Americans were dumb enough in 'electing'(?) Dubya not once but twice AND were dumber to let Dubya & Co get away with the Rape of Iraq and American liberties and constitutional rights, THEY would be dumbest in getting these two, MacCain and Lieberman, 'elected'(?)in November! I suppose every nation deserves the government it deserves! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] McCain = Pack Your Bags [Report this comment] Posted by: monkeywrench on Feb 7, 2008 8:38 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If Hillary becomes president, expect a "softer, kinder" version of pandering to corporations. If McCain becomes president, make sure you can find your passport, and if you don't have one, get one. Quickly. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] and where would you go? stay home and organize [Report this comment] Posted by: davidg on Feb 7, 2008 2:28 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Unless you are rich and want to be a permanent visitor, you can't just walk into another country. You have to go through a process anywhere to become a working alien. Take a lesson from the activists of the thirties, the hippies, the current dissidents...find them and join them. Stay home and organize. Do the country and the world a favor. Feed that fire in your belly. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Damn straight. [Report this comment] Posted by: Techubus on Feb 7, 2008 3:40 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay and fight for what I believe in until the storm troopers drag me from my house and have me Disappeared. This is my Country too, dammit, nobodies taking it from. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] McCain will be president [Report this comment] Posted by: mistery509 on Feb 7, 2008 6:11 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] McCain will be the next president. Look what happened when Bush got elected for his second term. Now how did that happen? Most Americans want war heros for their leaders or someone they can have a beer with. Most of the people don't even know who is running for president. I bet my grandfather's hat, he will be president once the Republicans start slushing lies and spreading fear among the uninformed. Sure as birds fly, the American public will fall for it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: McCain will be president - not! 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