Just in time for the IRS kerfuffle — which has evoked memories of Watergateish excess but, according to Carl Bernstein, shouldn't — Nixon White House veteran Pat Buchanan has crawled out from under whatever rock he usually lurks to prescribe a sure-fire remedy for today's GOP.
A return to the Southern Strategy. Hooray! America isn't divided enough, is it, Pat?
Now, we know what Buchanan's doing here. And we're happy to say that when you send a message that's laden with nasty code words only a certain group will get, it's not a "cat whistle." First, we cats don't respond to whistles. Second, Pat Buchanan's pronouncements, on whatever topic, have always been repulsive.
But he's just doubled down on the Republicans' biggest woe: They've become nothing more than a party of the Old Confederacy, and, as we've seen, that scenario doesn't have much longer to run. As long as minorities, young people and women can vote (and goodness knows the GOP is working on not letting them), state after state is falling out of the Republican column. States like Virginia, Texas, Florida — maybe even Georgia, soon.
The question isn't what the Democrats will say about this. It's whether Republicans will stay silent on this umpteenth example of a high-profile person sending a big-time dog whistle to the haters who comprise the party's loyal base. We cats HISS.
P.S. As for the IRS, we'll have more to say about that anon. But we sure wish they'd go after the Westboro Baptist Church instead.
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