Ever since he arrived at a star-studded reception during the White House Correspondents’ Association party weekend with “goggles” on, people have been buzzing about conservative pundit Pat Buchanan’s new look.
Was he trying to look like NASCAR’s Richard Petty? Maybe Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.
No, he tells Secrets of his stylish, Italian-made Ray-Ban wrap-arounds. “I just liked the look of them,” said Buchanan, a bit puzzled by the attention to his new glasses, dubbed “goggles” by FishbowlDC, the popular media blog.
What’s more, Buchanan, who recently had cataract surgery, liked the design so much he had three pairs made: sunglasses, distance glasses and reading glasses.
And obviously fashion trumps politics for Buchanan, a former presidential candidate and major league author who’s working on a new book about his one-time boss, Richard Nixon. Just consider: He recently suggested in a column titled “Arrivederci, Roma,” that Italy was dying, the victim of debt and a shrinking younger population. He wrote: “If your debts are larger than your economy, your death rate exceeds your birth rate and every new generation will be one-third smaller than the previous one, what kind of future does your country have?”
