Buchanan's Blues

Pat Buchanan says that the right may be crumbling beneath their own feet:

So why is Pat Buchanan feeling so blue? In an interview in today's Washington Times, the former presidential candidate says the conservative movement has "passed into history." "It doesn't exist anymore as a unifying force," Buchanan says. "There are still a lot of people who are conservative, but the movement is now broken up, crumbled, dismantled."

Buchanan is unhappy with all the infighting within the Republican Party, but he's unhappier still about this: Conservatives, he says, may have lost the culture war. "We say we won a great victory by defeating gay marriage in 11 state-ballot referenda in November," he says. "But I think in the long run, that will be seen as a victory in defense of a citadel that eventually fell."

Of course, what Pat et al refuse to acknowledge is that, to "the other side," his citidel stands as a symbol of oppression and domination. So therefore, that "Crumbling citadel" of the old world oppressors may be seen as a liberating symbol of a new world. [and of course, lest we forget the inherent phallic nature of Buchanan's citadel... can't prop up a metaphor with either viagra or buttresses, can you?]