Patrick Buchanan (Wikipedia)"American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior advisor to American presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.
He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause.[1] He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation and Rolling Stone. He is currently a political commentator on the MSNBC cable network including the show Morning Joe and a regular on The McLaughlin Group."
The Conservative rigidity has oft been analyzed so I won't bother to repeat all the findings on that subject. However, it is one thing to believe things firmly that have not been clearly proven otherwise, and another to fly in the face of all the proof that is needed for most intelligent individuals to be comfortable in taking a supportive position. For this reason, why Pat Buchanan has been snookered into believing that Darwin did not make astonishingly, accurate discoveries about evolution, is most difficult to understand. If we do understand the reason, then we must shudder at the minds that permeate politics and running the country. Buchanan is certainly not the only politician/presidential-advisor/speech writer or any number of other tasks influential to Presidents, who can be ridiculed for blindness to reality, easily taken in by those who untruthfully think they can prove facts by simply making up lies and having them published as facts.
In an article by PZ Myers (Pharyngula) an article was written titled "Old Fossil Takes on Darwin, He is apparently inspired by a "splendid little book," The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold, by a creationist crank named Eugene G. Windchy. You can read the full article here.
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