Pat Buchanan's Disagrees With 'Obama Is The New Nixon' Comparisons

Via ThinkProgress, here's video of Pat Buchanan reacting to the comparisons made by Senators Lamar Alexander and Judd Gregg between the Obama White House and the Nixon White House. Pat Buchanan, who was a close confidant of Nixon, scoffed at the idea, calling it "idiotic," because, duh, Nixon was a historically unlovable bastard-creature, who left trails of foul-smelling ichor all over the Oval Office, like a slug. And no one liked Nixon, except for the "Perotistas, and what you might call the tea-party folk" who loved him immensely. Irony!

That's sort of the short version, anyway, of Pat Buchanan. Here's the clip:

WATCH:

In other news: Do you remember when Judd Gregg almost became Obama's Commerce Secretary, for some reason? Why not pause, and reflect on that, for a moment. What a bizarre time in which to live!

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Comments

[RadCenter]

Where did the idea that people who supported Perot also supported Nixon come from?

[homer37]

Bu is the only person I know that has less creditabilty than GWB or cheney

[vm12608]

Who-da-thunk the time would come when Pat Buchanan would seem to be the more rational of the Repubs?? I tell you, if you live long enough you get to see everything!

[OldTart]

No s**t!

[harriscrl3]

Shut up Pat nobody cares what you think.

[Elbrando]

Besides the fact that both Nixon and Obama breathed oxygen there is no comparison between the two. Making such statements only goes to show the American people how desperate the republicans are.

[Mark Twaine]

What do Lamar Alexander and Judd Gregg know? What makes them an authority on Nixon's and President Obama's Administrations? I don't need Pat Buchanan to tell me they don't know a crook from a Nobel Prize winner!

[etiennemacchias]

"How dare they compare a white man with a black man!"

Basically.

[PWM]

I agree. Nixon, a Republican, is nothing like Obama, a Democrat.

Republicans live in bizarro world.

[fisher65]

hmmmm? at least mika is being more sensible, ill watch morning joe if she stays the way she is now, but pat buccanan huh?

[rissole]

Thank you Mr. Buchanan, you can go back to being irrelevant again.

[loax]

Does anyone care what Pat Buchanan thinks?

[IslandGyal]

NO!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[Char59]

NO with a circle around it!

[Renault]

I don't always like Pat Buchanan, but he did himself proud this time!

[rabrophy]

I think Pattie must have written the speech. He worked for Nixon which is the moral equivalent of working for Cheney.

[Scarborian]

Comparing Obama to Nixon "is the most idiotic comparison I've ever seen".

It's not like those comparisons to Hitler and Stalin then ........

There are just too many news channels and not enough talent to fill them.

[ohiodem250]

As usual with Pat, a left-handed compliment. Only he could make a "no comparison to Nixon" statement a sort of dig at someone.