Pat Buchanan, the MSNBC commentator who’s no stranger to controversial statements, said today that he thinks Newt Gingrich went “too far” when he compared the developers behind the Cordoba House Muslim community center to Nazis. It’s “absurd,” said Buchanan. “There is no valid comparison there.”Buchanan also called Gingrich a “political opportunist” who’s trying to be “more controversial than Sarah Palin,” who would be his potential primary challenger in the 2012 presidential election.
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