Date: 6 Jun 2009 Comments: 0

Patrick J. Buchanan has come in from the cold. The room he is in now may be a little cooler than he would like, but he is certainly warmer now than he was just a short time ago.

Years ago Mr. Buchanan ran for president. He ran more than once. I don't know why. It was clear to me the first time he ran that he was not going to get very far. In fact he never made it past the primaries in any of his campaigns for president.

The reason I thought he wouldn't do well was because his political ideas were not very popular and he did not have the kind of show-stopping charisma a few politicians down through the years have had and used effectively. Names like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton come to mind as politicians with show-stopping charisma.

Mr. Buchanan still doesn't have the kind of charisma needed to convert a large segment of the electorate to his was of thinking. What he does have though is a strikingly capacity for persevering in the face of failure after failure. Another man like that comes to mind. His name was Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Buchanan has kept on keeping on and now he has written a fabulous book. Politically, the book has certainly brought him in from the cold and has made him something of an overnight success in his struggle to gain a far greater political respect than he had just a short while ago.

The book is Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. One politically savvy writer, Laurence M. Vance, called it Buchanan's Necessary Book.

Believe me, if you pick up a copy of Mr. Buchanan's book, you will be unavoidably taken with the history and the logic behind his analysis of the causes and affects on the allies since then of both WWI and WWII. You will come away smarter and sick at heart. You will see where we are heading headlong into the same stupidity again in our handling of the Mideast. Just one of those affects was the loss to Great Britain of her Empire on which it was said "the sun never sets."

If we are interested in pursuing the happiness the Declaration of Independence spoke of, we are certainly heading in the wrong direction and we better turn around soon, because the bridge is out up ahead and once we are there, it will be too late. Let's not let that happen, folks.

Tags: pursuing the happiness the Declaration of Independence spoke of, Political Pundit, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton

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