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  Pat Buchanan
Since he was a young boy, Pat Buchanan has been something of a rabble rouser, both physically and verbally.
Buchanan appeals to two major constituencies: blue-collar workers, who may feel slighted by the prosperous economy that has eluded them, and the religious right, which has embraced his archly conservative beliefs.
Buchanan stuck by President Nixon throughout the Watergate scandal and resumed his writing in 1974, becoming a syndicated columnist.
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Buchanan was an early supporter of Richard Nixon's political comeback, from 1966 on acting as advisor to Nixon's campaigns and accompanying Nixon to the White House in the role of advisor until 1974.
Buchanan is an open isolationist, is in favor of severely restricting immigration into the United States, and of repealing NAFTA and raising tariffs on imported goods to protect domestic industry.
Buchanan's belief that the German Nazi regime was not a threat to American interests or national safety have made some of his critics accuse him of being an apologist for the fascist state.
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 Pat Buchanan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pat Buchanan was born in Washington, D.C., William Baldwin Buchanan, a partner in an accounting firm, and his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Crum, a nurse and a homemaker.
In October 1999 Buchanan sought the nomination of the Reform Party, announcing his leaving the Republican Party, which he disparaged (along with the Democrats) as a "beltway party." The Reform Party was bitterly divided between nominating Buchanan and nominating John Hagelin, an Iowa physicist whose platform was based on transcendental meditation.
Buchanan sees affirmative action as discrimination and is a critic of the NAACP and others he sees as distancing fls from "the American mainstream." He has often accused Republicans of pandering to such organizations in recent years out of fear of being called "racist" [83].
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 Pat Buchanan
Buchanan's father was an accountant who was fiercely anti-communist and admired Joseph McCarthy, and as a young man Buchanan was often itching for a fight.
Buchanan can quickly name two Mississippi ancestors who fought for the South in the Civil War, one who was killed in the battle at Vicksburg, and another captured by Union General William T. Sherman as Atlanta fell in 1864.
Buchanan's stint in the Reagan White House came to an end after he urged Reagan to pay his respects at a German military cemetery where Nazi soldiers were buried.
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 Pat Buchanan
A famously outspoken conservative, Pat Buchanan was a speechwriter and political advisor to President Richard Nixon and later served as communications director for president Ronald Reagan.
Buchanan won the New Hampshire Republican primary in 1996 before losing the overall GOP nomination to Bob Dole.
Pat Buchanan - Pat Buchanan Rabble rouser for the Reform party by Beth Rowen Buchanan speaks with steel workers in...
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 Pat Buchanan: The Great Betrayal | Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies
Pat Buchanan has played to this anxiety in two presidential campaigns and is now preparing to do so a third time.
Buchanan on the history of U.S. protectionism: "Behind a tariff wall built by Washington, Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, and the Republican presidents who followed, the United States had gone from an agrarian coastal republic to become the greatest industrial power the world had ever seen -- in a single century.
Buchanan on national sovereignty: "Like a shipwrecked, exhausted Gulliver on the beach of Lilliput, America is to be tied down with threads, strand by strand, until it cannot move when it awakens.
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 Politics1: Presidency 2000 - Patrick J. Buchanan (Reform-VA)
Buchanan wanted to be viewed as the leading "Stop Bush" candidate in the GOP, but was been stymied by the campaigns of fellow social conservatives Steve Forbes and Gary Bauer.
In the end, Buchanan overcame loud organized resistance from the Perot/Verney faction and won the nomination at the Reform convention over Natural Law Party leader John Hagelin (who was the last surviving "Stop Buchanan" candidate after Perot himselt declined to run at the last minute).
Buchanan was ultimately on the ballot in 49 states and captured 449,000 votes (4th place - 0.4%) -- but he later told reporters that his foray into third party politics may have been a mistake.
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 PAT BUCHANAN, ANTISEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
Buchanan called for closing the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which prosecuted Nazi war criminals, because it was "running down 70-year-old camp guards." (New York Times, 4/21/87) Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan -- despite protests -- to visit Germany's Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried.
Even after it was established that the CJC-Amcha activists were unarmed, Buchanan guards pushed and dragged the students down three flights of stairs and outside to the parking lot of the building where they continued to beat, punch and kick the three until Manchester police officers intervened and threatened to arrest Buchanan's campaign director.
Buchanan repreatedly scrawled the phrase "Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" on his notepad during the meeting.
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 Amazon.com: Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Buchanan is truly a throwback to the old ways of the Grand Old Party: in addition to supporting non-interventionism (in his case isolationism is probably not too strong a word) he is socially conservative and a big government protectionist to boot.
Pat Buchanan's book, Where the Right Went Wrong, attempts to demonstrate how the traditional conservative movement in America has slowly been straying from its roots (in the Reaganite era) and has been replaced by the neoconservatives (neocons); or those who were never truly conservative to begin with.
Buchanan's definitive categorization of the neocons can be summed up as follows: the worldwide spread of democracy, even if by force, (which seem contradictory), and the use of preemptive strikes or wars on all of those who oppose America or might seek to match us militarily.
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 washingtonpost.com - watergate scandal and deep throat update, pat buchanan
A Nixon speech writer and opposition researcher from 1966 to 1974, Pat Buchanan left the administration generally untarnished by Watergate.
Buchanan went on to become a conservative political figure in his own right, as an author of books on politics and a regular on talk shows such as CNN's "Crossfire." He challenged George Bush, Sr.
In 1999, Buchanan left the GOP for the Reform Party, winning the Party's presidential nomination but garnering less than one percent of the national vote.
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 Antiwar.com Blog · Pat Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party’s candidate in 2000.
Pat is not really an independent, but a Republican want-to-be that is unelectable, and only was able to run Reform because he bullied his way into its leadership.
Pat was a rare voice in the wilderness presciently warning us of the dangers of many of our nation’s policies for decades.They twere ignored as were those of Washington and Jefferson who had previouly warned us to avoid foreign entanglements.
www.antiwar.com /blog/2007/12/05/pat-buchanan   (871 words)

  
 Salon News | Who's afraid of Pat Buchanan?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Buchanan is back in the presidential campaign saddle again, leaving a trail of racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic rhetorical dung behind him wherever he goes.
This week, as rumors intensify that Buchanan may bolt for the Reform Party, thereby becoming a significant factor in the presidential race, the silence has become deafening.
Or, in a radio interview, when Buchanan justified his anti-immigration policies by insinuating that the character of Mexicans was generally criminal -- "60,000 of them are in our prisons." The "railroad killer" is the kind of person we're going to have more of unless we build up the border patrol, he said.
archive.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/04/pat   (515 words)

  
 Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan - The Dark Side
Buchanan's sheltered life explains why it took him until 1992 to discover that working men were losing jobs, and their wages were falling.
Buchanan's campaign and Bob Dole's campaign are the prime suspects (Dole has also pulled similar dirty tricks in tight spots in the past); in fact they may well have worked together, as the campaigns admit to doing in Louisiana, where their combined effort aborted Phil Gramm's campaign.
Buchanan's hypocrisy on the war is especially galling because he and his supporters make so much of his "fighting", referring to boyhood scraps where his many brothers backed him up, or his taking a poke at a policeman who wrote him a ticket (and broke his wrist).
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 Media Matters - Pat Buchanan: "[H]omosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism"
Buchanan claimed: "Both Kerry and Edwards know their support of civil unions, which are tantamount to gay marriages, is deeply unpopular." He then cited a vote in Missouri on gay marriage -- not civil unions -- as proof of the lack of popular support for civil unions.
No, Buchanan is principled and is someone, whether you agree with him or not, sticks to his beliefs even after years of smears and broadsides by the left and the neocon right (David Frum, the Canadian, of National Review questioned Pat's patriotism over his objection to the Iraq invasion !).
Buchanan is a principled fanatic which makes him no different than the Bin Laden types whom are intolerant and hide behind religion to mask their bigotry.
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 Pat Buchanan on Immigration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Buchanan said his exclusion from the three televised debates between Bush and Gore kept viewers from a real discussion of issues like immigration.
Buchanan’s TV ad, titled “Meatball,” depicts a man who begins to choke when he hears of a government move to strip English of its status as the “national language.” The ad cites an executive order President Clinton signed in August making it easier for non-English-speaking citizens to gain access to federal programs and services.
Increasingly, Buchanan is known as an enemy of immigration, especially immigration from below the Rio Grande.
www.issues2000.org /Celeb/Pat_Buchanan_Immigration.htm   (1281 words)

  
 Presidential Race Profile: Pat Buchanan
Buchanan was White House communications director for Ronald Reagan from 1985-1987.
Buchanan has taken a leave of absence from "Crossfire" and announced on March 2 that he will run for president in 2000.
All the data on this page is based on Federal Election Commission data released on January 3, 2002, except for "Quality of Disclosure," which is based on data released on October 1, 2001.
www.opensecrets.org /2000elect/index/P80000805.htm   (106 words)

  
 Pat Buchanan In His Own Words
Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court decision of the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King Jr.
In another memo from Buchanan to Nixon: "There is a legitimate grievance in my view of white working-class people that every time, on every issue, that the fl militants loud-mouth it, we come up with more money....
Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan -- despite protests -- to visit Germany's Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried.
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 Patrick J. Buchanan: Archives
Patrick J. Buchanan on the unpredictable outcome of Bush's wars and revolutions.
Patrick J. Buchanan on the cast of characters.
Patrick J. Buchanan on North Korea, Iran, and FDR's atomic offspring.
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 TIME.com -- Leon Jaroff: Pat Buchanan's Iraq Conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They were hurled by Pat Buchanan, the former Presidential speech writer, two-time Presidential candidate, columnist and television personality, who these days is showing unmistakable signs of  paranoia.
Buchanan in effect is charging that such strong-minded and staunch officials as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, to say nothing of the President, are mere putty in the hands of such wily plotters as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Elliott Abrams, bending willingly to their traitorous agenda.
Buchanan has also charged that the British started the terror bombing in World War II, causing the Germans to retaliate and that, in world War I,  "lying British propaganda" (not the sinking of the Lusitania?) enticed the U.S. into war with Germany.
www.time.com /time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,444259,00.html   (698 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Pat Buchanan gives up
Pat Buchanan should know about that first hand, after all this is a man who has defended neo-Nazis, embraced David Duke, and made countless references to anti-semitism.
Buchanan is more a Leftist than a Rightist - just recall him during the 1996 campaign, with his diatribes against the "lounge lizards of Palm Beach", his tirades against NAFTA, et al.
Pat is like the half-crazy uncle in a Dickens tale (a far better writer than Brown) who comes out with something near-brilliant, then proceeds to destroy his own stature and argument with half-baked sloganeering and crankisms ladelled clumsily over top of the initial bon mot, like a simpleton pouring chocolate sauce over a filet mignon.
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 Buchanan sees 'war' within conservatism - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 17, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Buchanan speaks of American conservatism in the past tense.
Buchanan, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, says conservatism "is at war with itself over foreign policy, over deficit hawks versus supply-siders."
Buchanan says the Arizona Republican was probably more of a libertarian than a traditional conservative.
www.washtimes.com /national/20050517-122418-5719r.htm   (1206 words)

  
 Pat Buchanan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Buchanan has ditched the GOP to seek the Reform Party nomination for president.
Perhaps Buchanan's populist economic beliefs - his positions on issues like free trade, income distribution, and immigration - are what have led him to the Reform Party, founded by the protectionist Ross Perot.
On the stump, Buchanan is a master of doom and gloom.
reason.com /bi/buchanan.html   (1264 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily – A Free Press for a Free People
Tuesday April 29, 2008 by Patrick J. Buchanan -- If John McCain wins the presidency, his comeback – after the bankrupt debacle his campaign had become in the summer of 2007 with his backing of the amnesty bill – will be the stuff of legend.
Friday April 25, 2008 by Patrick J. Buchanan -- As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand." Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder.
Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party's candidate in 2000.
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