Here's some more information for Whomod, expanding on the notion that PAt Buchanan is dividing and conquering the Democrats to help McCain:





In other words, far from it.

  • But why, when America's mini-mills and steel mills are among the most efficient on earth -- in terms of man hours needed to produce a ton of steel -- aren't those jobs coming back?

    Answer: It is due to the free-trade policies of Bush and McCain, which permit trade rivals to impose value-added taxes of 15 percent to 20 percent on steel imports from the United States while rebating those taxes on steel exports to the United States. We are getting it in the neck coming and going.

    An America First trade and tax policy could have U.S. steel mills rising again, while those in Japan, China, Russia and Brazil would be shutting down as uncompetitive in the U.S. market.

    But we no longer put America first.

    The U.S. government burns its incense at the altar of the Global Economy. The losers are those guys in Youngstown McCain was lecturing on the beauty of NAFTA. And the winners are the CEOs who pull down seven-, eight- and even nine-figure annual packages selling out their country for the corporation.

    Does McCain think $6 trillion in trade deficits since NAFTA, a dollar rotting away and 3.5 million manufacturing jobs lost under Bush was all inevitable? Does he think we can do nothing to stop the deindustrialization of a country that used to produce 96 percent of all it consumed?

    Why should those guys in Youngstown vote for McCain?

    Even Hillary, whose husband did NAFTA with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole's help, now gets it.



Most of the article focuses on McCain's political stops where he alienates his potential conservative base, while panning Bush and missing the real point each time.

But for me, the offshoring of U.S. jobs and factories, and creating foreign dependence through foreign trade that is unfair to the U.S. is the larger point.

In any case, I don't see that Buchanan is a supporter in any way of McCain.