Bloggers across this fair nation thought they couldn’t get a bigger gift from a Virginia senate race than they did last year, after the epic and appalling Macacaness of Sen. George Allen’s eventual defeat to Sen. Jim Webb. But via Wonkette, it would seem we could all have been wrong. Rumors are flying that Pat “Homosexuality is Not Only Immoral, but Filthy” Buchanan is considering a run at the seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner. It’s Christmas come early!
Of course, there are plenty of other non-insane Republicans rumored to be throwing their hat in the ring, with much better chances of being taken seriously by oh, say, anyone. Rep. Tom Davis, one of the leaders of the D.C. voting rights movement, for one, and former Gov. Jim Gilmore for another. But the possibilities of a primary race filled with pitchfork and shotgun-laden photo ops is too delicious to dismiss. Take a look at some of Pat’s most famous quotes throughout the ages — they make “macaca” sound like something you’d call an adorable five year-old girl in pig tails.
>> On AIDS, in 1983: “The poor homosexuals — they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.”
>> On the South before the Civil War, in 1993: “The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance. How long is this endless groveling before every cry of ‘racism’ going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?”
>> On the methods used to kill thousands of Jews at Treblinka, in 1990: “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”
>> From his 1988 book, Right from the Beginning: “The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.”
Meanwhile, former Democratic Gov. Mark Warner looks set to announce he will run for the seat tomorrow.
Quotes from PositiveAthiesm.org
