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PM Martin

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Thu Dec 19, 2013, 01:43 PM Dec 2013

Pat Buchannan embraces Putin for hatred of gays.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/17/pat-buchanan-putins-contempt-for-gay-people-sho/197307

"Is Vladimir Putin a paleoconservative?

In the culture war for mankind's future, is he one of us?

While such a question may be blasphemous in Western circles, consider the content of the Russian president's state of the nation address.

With America clearly in mind, Putin declared, "In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered."

"They're now requiring not only the proper acknowledgment of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgment of the equality of good and evil.""
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Pat Buchannan embraces Putin for hatred of gays. (Original Post) PM Martin Dec 2013 OP
Now there's a ringing endorsement, if there ever was one. Behind the Aegis Dec 2013 #1
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