Off the Reservation: Pat Buchanan vs. John McCain

John McCain says something perfectly reasonable in regards to Sonia Sotomayer; implying that she's not at all the monster that some on the rabid-right have made her out to be. The media speculates: "Has John McCain gone off the reservation!?" ~ implying that if McCain says something 'out of line', not in agreement with the Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh crowd, he's somehow less of a Republican.

Meanwhile, about 8 days later, Pat Buchanan, while guesting on the Rachel Maddow show, suggests that America was built by white males and therefore white males have deserved to be the bulk of the Supreme Court ever since the Court's founding.

Where's the outcry about "good old Uncle Pat"? Sure, a lot of Democrats and Liberals are outraged. But why aren't the people who feign umbrage when John McCain says something calm and reasonable calling for Pat Buchanan's head when he says something so asinine, so moronic, so hideous? Why is it the Republican Party allows for someone like Buchanan to be a complete racist, never suggesting for a minute that he's "off the reservation" or out of step with mainstream Republican ideas?

I do have a theory.