If you took offense at my seeming to downplay Buchanan's significance, I think you misunderstood my reaction to his "overture" to Obama, which you were kind to link to. Think of it as a conversational gambit in which one feigns ignorance---in this case, something like "What---is that old bastard still alive? Does anyone still listen to him?"
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:05 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arthur Maisel arthurmaisel
>
> The art of conversation is dead, they say.
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: :Is that what "they" say ? Do they say it after talking with you
> , 'cause nobody ever says that to me ? (smiles)
>
> ^^^^^
> It was probably always closer to Tolstoy than Wilde in real life, but
> this is to conversation what "heads I win, tails you lose" is to
> betting. Then again, I would have thought that most of those who still
> think bully boy Buchanan a significant voice must be on the waiting
> list for their second triple bypass.
>
> ^^^^
> CB:
>
> Buchanan is a "significant voice" in the sense that he is very far
> from being alone. There are millions of people in the US who think
> like he does no this. If you don't know that , you must be a hermit.
>
> He was an inventor of the Southern Strategy, an idea based in thinking
> similar to what he says here. The Southern Strategy was a very
> "significant voicing" in US politics in the late 20th Century.
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