Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan in 2008
Born	November 2, 1938 (1938-11-02) (age 69) Washington, D.C., United States
Occupation	Writer, political commentator
Religious beliefs	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Shelley Ann Scarney
Parents	William Baldwin Buchanan and Catherine Elizabeth Crum Buchanan

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist and broadcaster. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A pundit is someone who offers to mass-media his/her opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically political analysis, the Social sciences Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Print syndication is a form of syndication in which News articles columns, or Comic strips are made available to Newspapers, Magazines A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series Buchanan was a senior adviser to American presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner Crossfire was a current events Debate television program that aired from 1982 to 2005 on CNN. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. For only the third time in the 20th century after the elections of 1912 and 1976 a sitting Republican President was seriously challenged for party's nomination The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election. The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA, generally known simply as the Reform Party) is a Political The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican

He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a paleoconservative foundation named The American Cause. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation and Rolling Stone. Human Events is a weekly conservative Magazine founded in 1944. National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published He is currently a political commentator on the MSNBC cable network including the show The Race for the White House and a regular on The McLaughlin Group and sometimes guest on Hannity and Colmes on American television. A pundit is someone who offers to mass-media his/her opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically political analysis, the Social sciences MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. The McLaughlin Group is a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs Television program in the United States, where a group of five pundits Hannity & Colmes is an American television program on the Fox News Channel featuring host Sean Hannity, who presents a Conservative

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Professional career 2.1 St. Louis Globe-Democrat Editorial Writer 2.2 Work for the Nixon White House 2.3 News Commentator 2.4 Work for the Reagan White House 2.5 1992 Republican Presidential Primaries 2.6 Off the campaign trail 2.7 1996 Republican Presidential Primaries 2.8 2000 Reform Party Presidential Run 2.9 Presidential Primaries 2.10 Presidential Election 2.11 MSNBC Commentator 2.12 The American Conservative Magazine 3 Republican Politics Today 4 Roman Catholicism 5 Social conservatism 5.1 Culture war 5.2 Abortion and Euthanasia 5.3 Education and faith 5.4 Homosexuality and AIDS 5.5 Feminism 5.6 Guns and Crime 6 National identity and immigration reform 6.1 Assimilation and National Security 6.2 Race 6.3 Platform 7 Racial Issues 7.1 Civil rights, crime, and immigration 7.2 American Civil War 7.3 Martin Luther King, Jr. 8 Global affairs 9 Environmental protection 9.1 Environmentalism, property rights and trade 9.2 Animal welfare 10 Israel and accusations of anti-Semitism 10.1 Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust 10.1.1 "Great courage" controversy 10.1.2 Charles Lindbergh 10.1.3 Iwan Demjanjuk 10.2 U.S.-Israel Policy 10.2.1 A Palestinian State 10.3 Terrorism and 9/11 10.4 Iraq 10.4.1 Lebanon 10.5 Neoconservatism 11 In popular culture 12 Electoral history 13 Books and articles 13.1 Books 13.2 Major speeches 13.3 Selected articles 13.4 Interviews 14 See also 15 References 16 External links 16.1 Buchanan-affiliated 16.2 News and analysis 16.2.1 Also 16.3 Campaign materials 16.4 Supporting views 16.5 Opposing views 16.6 Miscellaneous

Personal life

Buchanan was born on November 2, 1938, in Washington, D.C., the son of Catherine Elizabeth (née Crum) (Charleroi, Pennsylvania, 23 December 1911 – Oakton, Virginia, 18 September 1995), a nurse and a homemaker, and William Baldwin Buchanan (Virginia, 15 August 1905 – Washington, D.C., January 1988), a partner in an accounting firm (whose paternal grandmother was the daughter of a Confederate Officer), who married on 28 December 1936. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Charleroi is a Borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River, 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Oakton is a Census-designated place (CDP in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 A nurse is responsible—along with other Health care Professionals —for the treatment safety and recovery of acutely or chronically Homemaker is a mainly American term which may refer either to the person within a family who is primarily concerned with the management of the household whether The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Professional services are infrequent technical or unique functions performed by independent contractors or consultants whose occupation is the rendering of such services The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 An officer is a member of an armed force who holds a position of authority Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[1][2] Buchanan had six brothers (Brian, Henry, James, John, Thomas, and William Jr. ) and two sisters (Kathleen and Bay). ^[3] One sister, Bay Buchanan, served as U.S. Treasurer under Ronald Reagan. Angela Marie "Bay" Buchanan (born December 23, 1948) served as Treasurer of the United States under President Ronald Reagan. The Treasurer of the United States (established September 6, 1777) is the only position within the United States Department of the Treasury older than the Buchanan has English, German, Scots Irish, and Irish ancestry. English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo -Americans although this may have a wider cultural meaning are Citizens of the United States whose ancestry German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry Scotch-Irish (the historically common term in North America) or Scots-Irish refers to inhabitants of the United States and by some of Canada Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánach are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. ^[1] He had a great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans^[4] and admires Robert E. Sons of Confederate Veterans ( SCV) is an organization Lee. ^[5]

Buchanan was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and attended Blessed Sacrament School, the Jesuit-run Gonzaga College High School, and Georgetown University. Gonzaga College High School is a Jesuit high school for boys located in Washington DC. Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D

While studying at Georgetown Buchanan served in ROTC and received his draft notice in 1960. ROTC links here For other uses see ROTC (disambiguation A Reserve Officers' Training Corps ( ROTC) ROTC produces officers in all branches However, a District of Columbia draft board rejecting him from military service due to reactive arthritis, declaring him 4-F. Reactive arthritis (ReA is an Autoimmune condition that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body The Selective Service System is the means by which the United States administers military Conscription. After Georgetown, Buchanan earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia in 1962. Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people Academic Programs Columbia’s Journalism School offers three degree programs Master of Science in journalism (full and part-time He wrote his master's project at Columbia on the expanding trade between Canada and Cuba. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la

In 1971, Buchanan married a close friend and White House staffer Shelley Ann Scarney. They have no children. ^[6]

One of Buchanan's heroes is General Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur redirects here for other meanings see General MacArthur (disambiguation. ^[7][8] Buchanan dedicated a chapter in Right from the Beginning to defend Senator Joseph McCarthy ^[9] It was also around this time that Buchanan started using commonly the phrase, "I represent from midnight to high noon" as a means to describe his political ideology. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14 1908 – May 2 1957 was an American politician who served as a Republican U Buchanan is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ( SMOM) Order of Malta

Professional career

St. Louis Globe-Democrat Editorial Writer

Buchanan joined the St. Louis Globe-Democrat at age 23, becoming the paper's youngest editorial writer. The St Louis Globe-Democrat (casually referred to as The Globe) was a daily newspaper based in St The first year of the United States embargo against Cuba in 1961, Canada-Cuba trade tripled. The United States Embargo Against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo, Spanish for "the Blockade " is an economic commercial and Eight weeks after Buchanan started at the paper, the Globe-Democrat published a rewrite of Buchanan's Columbia master's project under the eight-column banner "Canada sells to Red Cuba - And Prospers. " According to Buchanan's memoir Right from the Beginning, this article was a milestone in his career. Buchanan later turned against the embargo, saying it strengthened the communist regime. ^[10] Buchanan was promoted to assistant editorial page editor in 1964. That year, Buchanan supported Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign. The Globe-Democrat did not endorse Goldwater, however, and Buchanan speculated about a clandestine agreement between the paper and President Johnson. Buchanan later recalled: "The conservative movement has always advanced from its defeats. . . I can't think of a single conservative who was sorry about the Goldwater campaign. "^[5] According to the foreword (written by Pat Buchanan) in the most recent edition of Conscience of a Conservative, Buchanan was a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, and wrote press releases for that organization. Young Americans for Freedom ( YAF) is a conservative youth organization that was founded in 1960 He served as an executive assistant in the Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, and Mitchell law offices in New York City in 1965.

Work for the Nixon White House

The next year, he was the first adviser hired to Nixon's presidential campaign;^[11] he worked primarily as an opposition researcher. For his speeches aimed at dedicated supporters, he was soon nicknamed "Mr. Inside. " ^[12]

Buchanan traveled with Nixon throughout the campaigns of 1966 and 1968. He made a tour of Western Europe, Africa, and in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War, the Middle East. Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon and vice president Spiro Agnew. | |-| |-| |- | |-| |-| |-| |-| |} The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence A speechwriter is a person who is hired to prepare and write speeches that will be delivered by another person Spiro Theodore Agnew ( November 9, 1918 September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States (and the first Buchanan coined the phrase Silent Majority and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon; in a 1972 memo he suggested the White House "should move to re-capture the anti-Establishment tradition or theme in American politics. The silent majority is an unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly "^[13] His daily duties included developing political strategy, publishing the President's Daily News Summary, and preparing briefing books for news conferences. He accompanied Nixon on his 1972 trip to China in 1972 and the summit in Moscow, Yalta, and Minsk in 1974. He suggested to Nixon to label Democratic opponent George McGovern as an extremist and burn the White House tapes. George Stanley McGovern The Watergate tapes, also known as the Nixon tapes are a collection of recordings of conversations between U ^[12]

Buchanan remained as a special assistant to the president through the final days of the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's He was not accused of wrongdoing, though some mistakenly suspected him as Deep Throat. Deep Throat is the Pseudonym given to the secret source who provided information to the Washington Post about the involvement of U When the actual identity of the press leak was revealed as FBI Associate Director Mark Felt in 2005, Buchanan called him "sneaky," "dishonest," and "criminal. William Mark Felt Sr (born August 17, 1913) is a former agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 "^[14] Due to his role in the Nixon campaign's "Attack Group," Buchanan appeared before the Senate Watergate Committee on September 26, 1973. The Senate Watergate Committee was a special committee convened by the United States Senate to investigate the Watergate burglaries and the ensuing Watergate Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. He told the panel: "The mandate that the American people gave to this president and his administration cannot and will not be frustrated or repealed or overthrown as a consequence of the incumbent tragedy. "^[12] When Nixon resigned in 1974, Buchanan briefly stayed on as special assistant under incoming President Gerald Ford. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President Chief of Staff Alexander Haig approved Buchanan's appointment as ambassador to South Africa, but Ford refused it. Alexander Meigs Haig Jr (born December 2 1924 is a retired four-star General in the United States Army who served as the U The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa ^[12]

Buchanan later referred to Watergate as "the lost opportunity to move against the political forces frustrating the expressed national will" and remarked: "To effect a political counterrevolution in the capital . . . there is no substitute for a principled and dedicated man of the Right in the Oval Office. "^[12] Long after his resignation, Nixon called Buchanan a confidant and said he was neither an anti-Semite nor a "hater," but a "decent, patriotic American. " Nixon said Buchanan had "some strong views," such as his, "isolationist" foreign policy, with which he disagreed. While the former president did not think Buchanan should become president, he said the commentator "should be heard. "^[15]

News Commentator

Buchanan returned to his column and began regular appearances as a broadcast host and commentator. He co-hosted a three-hour daily radio show with liberal columnist Tom Braden, called the Buchanan-Braden Program. Thomas Wardell Braden (born 1918 is an American Journalist. In 1940 he joined the British Army. He delivered daily commentaries on NBC radio from 1978 to 1984. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Buchanan started his TV career as a regular on The McLaughlin Group and CNN's Crossfire (inspired by Buchanan-Braden) and The Capital Gang, making him nationally recognizable. The McLaughlin Group is a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs Television program in the United States, where a group of five pundits Crossfire was a current events Debate television program that aired from 1982 to 2005 on CNN. His several stints on Crossfire occurred between 1982 and 1999; his sparring partners included Braden, Michael Kinsley and Bill Press. crossfire (also known as "interlocking fire" is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as machine guns so that their arcs of fire overlap Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951 in Detroit Michigan) is an American political Journalist, commentator Television host and pundit Bill Press (born 1940 is a Political commentator for Fox News and author

Work for the Reagan White House

Buchanan served as White House Communications Director from 1985 to 1987. The White House Director of Communications, also known as Assistant to the President for Communications, is part of the senior staff of the President of the United States To help garner opposition to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and support of the opposing rebels he coined the phrase I'm a contra too. Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) is a socialist Nicaraguan Political party. The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua 's FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional Sandinista Junta of National

Buchanan supported President Reagan's plan to visit a German military cemetery at Bitburg in 1985, where among buried wermacht soldiers, were forty eight buried Waffen SS members. Bitburg (ˈbɪtbʊʁk is a city in Germany, capital of the district Bitburg-Prüm, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Wehrmacht (literally "defense force" was the name of the unified Armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945 The Waffen-SS ( German for "Armed SS" literally "Weapons SS" was the Combat arm of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron" Over the vocal objections of Jewish groups, the trip went through. In an interview, author Elie Wiesel described attending a White House meeting of Jewish leaders about the trip,

"The only one really defending the trip," he said, "was Pat Buchanan, saying, 'We cannot give the perception of the president being subjected to Jewish pressure. Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30 1928 in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) is a Jewish writer professor political activist See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence "^[16]

Buchanan said in response in an ABC interview in 1992,

"I didn't say it and Elie Wiesel wasn't even in the meeting. [. . . ] that meeting was held three weeks before the Bitburg summit was held. If I had said that, it would have been out of there within hours and on the news. "^[17]

In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters in 1986, Buchanan said about the "Reagan Revolution," "Whether President Reagan has charted a new course that will set our compass for decades -- or whether history will see him as the conservative interruption in a process of inexorable national decline -- is yet to be determined. National Religious Broadcasters ( NRB) is an American organization that represents Christian religious broadcasters on American television " A year later, he remarked "the greatest vacuum in American politics is to the right of Ronald Reagan. "^[12] While her brother was working for Reagan, Bay Buchanan started a "Buchanan for President" movement in June 1986. Angela Marie "Bay" Buchanan (born December 23, 1948) served as Treasurer of the United States under President Ronald Reagan. She said the conservative movement needed a leader, but Buchanan was initially ambivalent. ^[12] After leaving the White House, he returned to his column and Crossfire. Out of respect for Jack Kemp he sat out the 1988 race, although Kemp later became his adversary. Jack French Kemp Jr (born July 13 1935 is an American politician and former professional American football player ^[13]

1992 Republican Presidential Primaries

In 1990, Buchanan published a newsletter called Patrick J. Buchanan: From the Right; it sent subscribers a bumper sticker reading: "Read Our Lips! No new taxes. "^[18]

In 1992, Buchanan explained his reasons for challenging the incumbent, President George H. W. Bush: "If the country wants to go in a liberal direction, if the country wants to go in the direction of [Democrats] George Mitchell and Tom Foley, it doesn't bother me as long as I've made the best case I can. George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 For other persons with a similar name see George Mitchell. George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933 Thomas Stephen Foley (born March 26, 1929 in Spokane Washington) is an American politician of the Democratic Party What I can't stand are the back-room deals. They're all in on it, the insider game, the establishment game -- this is what we're running against. "^[5]

He ran on a platform of economic nationalism, immigration reduction, and social conservatism, including opposition to multiculturalism, abortion, and gay rights. Immigration reduction refers to movements that advocate a reduction in the amount of Immigration allowed into their country Social conservatism is a political or moral ideology that affirms the government's role in encouraging or enforcing traditional values or behaviors in the belief that these are what The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the Demographics of a specified An Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender social movements share related goals of social acceptance of Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Transgenderism Lesbian Buchanan seriously challenged Bush (whose popularity was waning) when he won 38 percent of the seminal New Hampshire primary. In the primary elections, Buchanan garnered three million total votes.

Buchanan later threw his support behind Bush, and delivered a keynote address at the 1992 Republican National Convention, which became known as the culture war speech, in which he described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. A keynote in Literature, Music or Public speaking is the principal underlying theme The Republican National Convention is the presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States. The culture war (or culture wars) in American usage is a metaphor used to claim that political conflict is based on sets of conflicting values " In the speech, he said of Bill and Hillary Clinton:

The agenda Clinton & Clinton would impose on America--abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units--that's change, all right. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26 1947 is the junior United States Senator from But it is not the kind of change America needs. It is not the kind of change America wants. And it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call God's country. ^[19]

Buchanan's speech stirred controversy and alienated some moderates. ^[20]

Off the campaign trail

Buchanan returned to his column and Crossfire. To promote the principles of federalism, traditional values, and anti-intervention, he founded The American Cause, a paleoconservative educational foundation in 1993. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Bay Buchanan serves as the Vienna, Virginia-based foundation's president and Pat is its chairman. Angela Marie "Bay" Buchanan (born December 23, 1948) served as Treasurer of the United States under President Ronald Reagan. ^[21]

Buchanan returned to radio as host of Buchanan and Company, a three-hour talk show for Mutual Broadcasting System on July 5, 1993. The Mutual Broadcasting System ( MBS) was an American Radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999 It pitted him against liberal co-hosts, including Barry Lynn, Bob Beckel, and Chris Matthews, in a time slot opposite Rush Limbaugh's show. Barry Lynn may refer to Boxcutter, born Barry Lynn electronic musician from Northern Ireland Barry C Christopher Matthews (born December 17 1945) is an American News anchor and Political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio host and conservative Political commentator. To launch his 1996 campaign, Buchanan left the program on March 20, 1995.

1996 Republican Presidential Primaries

Buchanan sought the Republican nomination while voicing his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

In February, the Center for Public Integrity issued a report claiming Buchanan's presidential campaign co-chairman, Larry Pratt, appeared at two meetings organized by white supremacist and militia leaders. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern Lawrence D Pratt (born November 13 1942 is the Executive director of Gun Owners of America, a U Pratt denied any tie to racism, calling the report an orchestrated smear before the New Hampshire primary. Buchanan told the Manchester Union Leader he believed Pratt. Pratt took a leave of absence "to answer these charges," "so as not to have distraction in the campaign. "^[22]

Buchanan defeated Senator Bob Dole by about 3,000 votes to win the February New Hampshire primary. Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide Political party Primary elections held in the United States every four years as part of At a rally in Nashua, he said, "We shocked them in Alaska. Stunned them in Louisiana. Stunned them in Iowa. They are in a terminal panic. They hear the shouts of the peasants from over the hill. All the knights and barons will be riding into the castle pulling up the drawbridge in a minute. All the peasants are coming with pitchforks. We're going to take this over the top. "^[23] While campaigning, Buchanan used a slogan with his supporters, "The peasants are coming with pitchforks", occasionally appearing with a prop pitchfork, thus earning him the nickname "Pitchfork Pat. A pitchfork is an agricultural Tool with a long handle and long thin widely separated "

In the Super Tuesday primaries, Dole defeated Buchanan by large margins. In the United States Super Tuesday, in general refers to the Tuesday in February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold Having collected twenty one percent of the total votes in Republican primaries, Buchanan suspended his campaign in March. If Dole were to choose a pro-choice running mate, Buchanan threatened to run as the U. Overview See also Ethical aspects of abortion Pro-choice advocates emphasize their beliefs that having a child is a personal choice that affects a woman's body and S. Taxpayers Party (now Constitution Party) candidate. The Constitution Party is a Conservative United States political party. Dole chose Jack Kemp and he received Buchanan's endorsement. Jack French Kemp Jr (born July 13 1935 is an American politician and former professional American football player After the 1996 campaign, Buchanan returned to his column and Crossfire. He also began a series of paleoconservative books with 1998's The Great Betrayal. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian

2000 Reform Party Presidential Run

Presidential Primaries

Buchanan announced his departure from the Republican Party in October 1999, which he disparaged (along with the Democrats) as a "beltway party" and sought the nomination of the Reform Party. The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA, generally known simply as the Reform Party) is a Political Buchanan's strong rhetoric and supposed involvement with "dirty tricks" in the Nixon administration made many party members uncomfortable. Many reformers backed Iowa physicist John Hagelin, whose platform was based on transcendental meditation. The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. John Hagelin, scientist educator and three-time third-party candidate for President of the United States is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science Technology Transcendental Meditation or TM is the trademarked name of a Meditation technique introduced in 1958 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008 Party founder Ross Perot did not endorse a candidate, but former running-mate Pat Choate endorsed Buchanan. Henry Ross Perot (born June 27 1930 is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in Pat Choate (born 27 April 1941) is an Economist who is perhaps most known for being the 1996 Reform Party Vice President

Supporters of Hagelin charged the results of the party's open primary, which favored Buchanan by a wide margin, were "tainted. " The Reform Party divisions led to dual conventions being held simultaneously in separate areas of the Long Beach Convention Center complex. Both conventions' delegates ignored the primary ballots and voted to nominate their presidential candidates from the floor, similar to the Democratic and Republican conventions. One convention nominated Buchanan while the other backed Hagelin, with each camp claiming to be the legitimate Reform Party.

Ultimately, when the Federal Elections Commission ruled Buchanan was to receive ballot status as the Reform candidate, as well as about $12. The Federal Election Commission (or FEC) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the 6 million dollars in federal campaign funds secured by Perot's showing in the 1996 election, Buchanan won the nomination. The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice In his acceptance speech, Buchanan proposed U. S. withdrawal from the United Nations and expelling the U. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security N. out of New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs. The The United States Department of Education (also referred to as ED, for Education Department is a Cabinet -level department of the United States The United States Department of Energy ( DOE) is a Cabinet -level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy The United States Department of Housing, often abbreviated HUD, is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government. Affirmative action in the United States|Employment equity (Canada|Reservation in India|Numerus clausus The term affirmative action describes many policies aimed at a historically As his running mate, Buchanan chose African-American activist and retired teacher from Los Angeles, Ezola B. Foster. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Ezola Broussard Foster (born August 9, 1938) is an American conservative Political activist.

Presidential Election

In the 2000 presidential election, Buchanan finished fourth with 449,895 votes, 0. The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican 4 percent of the popular vote. (Hagelin garnered 0. 1 percent as the Natural Law candidate. The Natural Law Party was a United States Political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. ) In Palm Beach County, Florida, Buchanan received 3,407 votes -- which some saw as inconsistent with Palm Beach County's liberal leanings, its large Jewish population and his showing in the rest of the state. Palm Beach County is located in the state of Florida. As of 2007 the county had a population of 1351236 according to the University of Florida Bureau of Economic As a result of the county's now-infamous "butterfly ballot," he is suspected to have gained thousands of inadvertent votes. The outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election was not known for more than a month after balloting because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer stated, "Palm Beach county is a Pat Buchanan stronghold and that's why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes there. Lawrence Ari Fleischer (born October 13 1960) was the press secretary for U " However, Reform Party officials strongly disagreed, estimating the number of supporters in the county at between 400 and 500. Appearing on The Today Show, Buchanan said: "When I took one look at that ballot on Election Night. . . it's very easy for me to see how someone could have voted for me in the belief they voted for Al Gore. Albert Arnold Gore Jr (born March 31 1948 is an American environmental Activist, author Businessperson, former Politician, and former "

Some observers said his campaign was aimed to spread his message beyond his white base, while his views had not changed. ^[24]

Following the 2000 election, Reformers urged Buchanan to take an active role within the party. Buchanan declined though he did attend their 2001 convention. In the next few years, he identified himself as a political independent, choosing not to align himself with what he viewed as the neo-conservative Republican party leadership. Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism Prior to the 2004 election, Buchanan announced he once again identified himself as a Republican, had no interest in ever running for president again, and reluctantly endorsed Bush's 2004 reelection, writing, "Bush is right on taxes, judges, sovereignty, and values. The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Tuesday November 2, 2004, to elect the President of the United States. Kerry is right on nothing. "^[25]

MSNBC Commentator

Although CNN decided not to take him back, Buchanan's column resumed. ^[26] A longer variation of the Crossfire format was aired by MSNBC as Buchanan and Press on July 15, 2002, reuniting Buchanan and Press. Crossfire was a current events Debate television program that aired from 1982 to 2005 on CNN. Buchanan & Press was a debate show on MSNBC pairing former Crossfire hosts conservative Pat Buchanan and liberal Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Billed as "the smartest hour on television", Buchanan and Press featured the duo interviewing guests and sparring about the top news stories. As the Iraq War loomed, Buchanan and Press toned down their rivalry, as they both opposed the invasion. The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign Press claims they were the first cable hosts to discuss the planned attack. ^[27] MSNBC Editor-in-Chief Jerry Nachman once jokingly lamented this unusual situation, saying, "So the point is why does only Fox [News Channel] get this? At least, we work at the perfect place, the place that's fiercely independent. Jerome A "Jerry" Nachman ( February 24, 1946 – January 19, 2004) born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh We try to have balance by putting you two guys together and then this Stockholm syndrome love fest set in between the two of you, and we no longer even have robust debate. Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker regardless of the danger ^[28]"

Just hours after his talk show debuted, Buchanan was a guest on the premiere of MSNBC's ill-fated Donahue program. Host Phil Donahue and Buchanan debated the separation of church and state. Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American media personality and Writer, best known as Buchanan called Donahue "dictatorial"^[29] and teased that the host got his job through affirmative action. ^[30]

After MSNBC President Eric Sorenson canceled Buchanan and Press on November 26, 2003, Buchanan stayed at MSNBC as a political analyst. Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. He regularly appears on the network's talk shows. He occasionally filled in on the nightly show Scarborough Country during its run on MSNBC. Scarborough Country was an opinion/analysis show broadcast on MSNBC Monday - Thursday at 9 P Buchanan is now a frequent guest and co-host of Morning Joe as well as Race for the White House with David Gregory . Morning Joe is a Weekday Morning Talk show on MSNBC, hosted by Joe Scarborough with co-hosts Mika Brzezinski David Gregory may refer to David Gregory (mathematician, Scottish mathematician David Gregory (journalist, American journalist at

The American Conservative Magazine

In 2002, to start a new magazine featuring paleoconservative viewpoints on the economy, immigration and foreign policy, Buchanan joined with former New York Post editorial page editor Scott McConnell and financier Taki Theodoracopulos. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually Scott McConnell (born 1952 is an American Journalist best known as the current editor of The American Conservative. Taki Theodoracopulos (Τάκης Θεοδωρακόπουλος born August 11 1937) originally named Petros (Peter Theodoracopulos but better known as Taki The American Conservative's first issue was dated October 7, 2002. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Paid circulation in April, 2004, was 12,600. ^[31] Buchanan is currently listed as Editor Emeritus on the masthead.

Republican Politics Today

In contrast to neoconservatives or the old Rockefeller Republicans, Buchanan calls himself a traditional conservative. Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism In the politics of the United States of America the Rockefeller Republican s were a faction of Republicans who held liberal views similar to those of the late

Some of Buchanan's contemporary positions reflect the influence of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Chronicles is a US monthly Magazine published by the paleoconservative Rockford Institute. ^[32] Many of his views, particularly those opposing the managerial state, echo those of the Old Right Republicans of the first half of the 20th century. Managerial state is a Paleoconservative concept used in critiquing modern Social democracy in Western countries ^[33] For example, Buchanan supports abolishing many government agencies, such as the Department of Education^[34] and the Bureau of Land Management. ^[35] "We do not consider 'Big Government conservatism' a philosophy," Buchanan said in 2005. "We consider it a heresy. "^[36]

Following his return to the Republican Party, he maintains the Republican party has largely abandoned traditional conservative principles for neoconservatism and compromise. Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism On MSNBC before the 2006 State of the Union Address, he characterized President Bush as a "Great Society" Republican. The Great Society was also a 1960s band featuring Grace Slick, and a 1914 book by English social theorist Graham Wallas. "He is Woodrow Wilson in foreign policy, FDR in trade policy, he's LBJ on immigration, but he's Reagan on judges," he said. ^[37]

He says both parties are now barely distinguishable. "The Republican Party in Washington D. C. today are the sort of people we went into politics to run out of town," he told a public radio interviewer. ^[38]

Roman Catholicism

Buchanan is a member of the traditionalist movement within Roman Catholicism, attending the Tridentine Mass in the Latin language at Saint Mary, Mother of God Church in Washington, D. Traditionalist Catholics are Roman Catholics, or people who identify as Roman Catholics who believe that there should be a restoration of many or all of the liturgical The Tridentine Mass (Missa Tridentina is the form of the Roman Rite Mass contained in the typical editions of the Roman Missal that were published Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. C. on Sundays and holy days. In a 1993 speech against multiculturalism, he declared, "our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) "^[39] He says for rejecting Christian dogma and theology, the Western World is approaching a grim future. ^[40][41] and says if politicians do not "defend the moral order rooted in the Old and New Testament and Natural Law," society faces "a permanent downhill run" -- and that this matters more than "economic or political" problems. Natural law or the law of nature ( Latin: lex naturalis) is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by Nature and that ^[42]

At least against conservative Catholics, Buchanan charges the New York Times with Anti-Catholic bias. Anti-Catholicism is a generic term for Discrimination, hostility or Prejudice directed at the Roman Catholic Church or its followers ^[43][44] He has referred to John Kerry and other Catholics who claim views on abortion and homosexual unions which dissent from official Catholic Doctrine, as scandalous heretics. } John Forbes Kerry (born December 11 1943 is an American Politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief ^[45] On the direction of the Catholic Church since Vatican II, he has stated:

"The Church is in crisis today not because it failed to adjust its teaching and practices to the sexual revolution, but because it tried both to be true to its teachings and to keep in step with an immoral age, which is an impossibility. The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twentieth century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. The sexual revolution refers to the well-documented changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world that continues to evolve The way for the Church to restore its lost moral authority is to retrace its steps. "^[44]

Buchanan praised Pope John Paul II's views on abortion, homosexuality, and extra-marital sex, calling him "the most politically incorrect man on Earth. Pope " Buchanan says post-Vatican II liberalism is hurting Mass attendance and reducing the numbers of priests and nuns. ^[46] He later praised the pope's successor, Benedict XVI, as uncompromising on Catholic doctrines, including divorce, contraception and women's ordination. Pope Benedict XVI ( Latin: Benedictus PP XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger ^[47] On the other hand, he said Pope John Paul II was wrong on the death penalty, saying "it is the Holy Father and the bishops who are outside the Catholic mainstream, and at odds with Scripture, tradition and natural law. "^[48]

Buchanan said of Mel Gibson's film Passion of the Christ,

"Because of the over-the-top attacks on Gibson, millions who see 'The Passion' will also come to see the slur of 'anti-Semite!' for what it has all too often become, an attempt to smear, silence, intimidate, ostracize and blacklist. Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3 1956 The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 film co-written co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Intimidation (also called cowing) is intentional behavior "which would cause a person of ordinary sensibilities" fear of Injury or Harm. "^[49]

Responding to charges Pope Pius XII remained silent during the Holocaust, Buchanan called the claim, "a blood libel that is Hitlerite in dimension. Pope Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately "^[43] He notes the Nazis despised the Pontiff,^[50] while the victims of Nazism (and the 1940s New York Times) praised him. ^[51] He says Pius XII reigned during "a time of explosive growth in the Church"^[52] and supports proposals to have him declared a saint. ^[43]

Social conservatism

Culture war

Pat Buchanan says that America is divided by a culture war. He calls it a conflict over the power to define society's definition of right and wrong. ^[53] Fronts include environmentalism, feminism, abortion, gay rights, freedom of religion, women in combat, display of the Confederate Flag, recognition of Christmas and taxpayer-funded art. Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate An Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender social movements share related goals of social acceptance of Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Transgenderism Lesbian Freedom of religion is the freedom of an individual or community in public or private to manifest religion or belief in teaching practice worship and observance The Confederate States of America used several Flags during its existence from 1861 to 1865 ^[54][55] He also said that the controversy given this idea of culture wars was itself evidence of polarization.

When Buchanan ran for president in 1996, he promised to fight for the conservative side of the culture war, saying, "I will use the bully pulpit of the Presidency of the United States, to the full extent of my power and ability, to defend American traditions and the values of faith, family, and country, from any and all directions. And, together, we will chase the purveyors of sex and violence back beneath the rocks whence they came". ^[56] In a 2004 column, he wrote, "Who is in your face here? Who started this? Who is on the offensive? Who is pushing the envelope? The answer is obvious. A radical Left aided by a cultural elite that detests Christianity and finds Christian moral tenets reactionary and repressive is hell-bent on pushing its amoral values and imposing its ideology on our nation. The unwisdom of what the Hollywood and the Left are about should be transparent to all". ^[54]

Buchanan says pornography is a symptom of society's displacement of Christianity. He argues capitalism's power should not extend to such material. He referred to hardcore pornography as ”the sort of squalid, grungy stuff that, not long ago, would have had the men who produced and distributed it sent to prison for years, after being denounced from the bench as perverts”. ^[57]

Abortion and Euthanasia

Buchanan believes life begins at conception and says of abortion, “I don’t care about the circumstances of a child’s conception. Controversy over the beginning of pregnancy usually occurs in the context of the Abortion debate . . You want to execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn child live. ”^[58] He calls RU-486 a 'human pesticide'. Mifepristone is a synthetic Steroid compound used as a pharmaceutical. ^[59] While certain there is no correlation between a lack of gun control and violence in society, he says this is very much so for the legal availability of abortions, comparing legalization to the downfall of Weimar Germany. The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933 As a result, he opposes Planned Parenthood, UNFPA and fetal-tissue research. Planned Parenthood is the collective name of organizations worldwide who are members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF The United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA) began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (the name was changed in 1987 Buchanan wants Congress to hold hearings on when life begins and confer "personhood" on the unborn. The term person is used in Common sense to mean an individual Human being. He believes modern technology can be used to prove life begins at conception and, "To reach hearts, we must first teach. Some hearts that are closed and cold will open. We will reach them. It has worked before. "

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, as part of his book Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, mailed several hundred dollar checks to various 1996 presidential candidates, written under the guise of fictional support groups with names and agendas antithetical to the particular candidate's ideology, "just to see if politicians would take money from anybody. Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954 is an Academy Award -winning American filmmaker author and liberal Political commentator. " Buchanan was the first to cash his check, which was from the fictional group "Abortionists for Buchanan. " This is featured in Moore's film The Big One. The Big One is a movie filmed in 1996 -- and released in 1998 by Miramax Films -- by Michael Moore during his promotion tour

^[60] Buchanan believes the right to die does not exist, and compares Euthanasia to the culture of the pre-Christian Roman Empire, calling euthanasia a "crime against humanity. For the 1987 film see Right to Die (film The term " right to die " refers to various issues related to the decision of whether an Euthanasia (literally "good death" in Ancient Greek) refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial "^[61] He claims Florida murdered comatose woman Terri Schiavo by starving her to death. Theresa Marie Schindler "Terri" Schiavo ( December 3 1963 – March 31 2005 was an American woman who suffered brain damage and became dependent on a Feeding tube He argues such practices will physically destroy Western civilization. ^[62] "In coming decades," he predicts, "involuntary euthanasia will be commonplace in Europe, and Generation X battles to stay alive into old age will be treated with the same cold contempt as they treated the silent screams of the unborn. Generation X is a term used to describe generations in the United States and other countries born between the approximate years of 1965 to 1981 the late 1950s and 1960s or Millions will be put to sleep like aged and incontinent household pets. Since the 1960s, the radical young have pleaded for a world free of the strictures of the old Christian morality. They are close to getting what they have demanded. . . and my sense is that they will not like what they get". ^[40]

Education and faith

In announcing his 1996 presidential campaign, he said:

Today, in too many of our schools our children are being robbed of their innocence. Their minds are being poisoned against their Judeo-Christian heritage, against America's heroes and against American history, against the values of faith and family and country. Eternal truths that do not change from the Old and New Testament have been expelled from our public schools, and our children are being indoctrinated in moral relativism, and the propaganda of an anti-Western ideology. ^[63]

Buchanan deplores that Christianity and the Ten Commandments were "expelled" from public education. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to Judeo-Christian tradition were authored by God and given ^[34] To allow state-sanctioned prayer in public schools, he supports passing a constitutional amendment. School prayer in its most common usage refers to state sanctioned Prayer by students in state Schools. In a 1999 interview, he said "ever since the judges have gotten heavily into education, and the National Education Association has gotten into control of that Department of Education, test scores go down, there’s violence in classroom, things are going wrong. The National Education Association ( NEA) is the largest professional organization in the United States, representing Public school Teachers and The United States Department of Education (also referred to as ED, for Education Department is a Cabinet -level department of the United States "^[34] In Right from the Beginning, he said, "A National Day of Prayer, conducted inside the classrooms of America's public schools, by Christian teachers, in open defiance of Supreme Court edicts, would send a message of political strengths the Secular City could not ignore. "^[64]

Buchanan writes the theory of evolution, which he calls 'Darwinism', "contains dogmas men may believe, but cannot stand the burden of proof, the acid of attack or the demands of science. "^[65] He endorses the concept of intelligent design, and argues the laws of science "imply the existence of a lawmaker. Intelligent The laws of science are various established Scientific laws or Physical laws as they are sometimes called that are considered universal and invariable facts of the "^[66]

Homosexuality and AIDS

Referring to AIDS in 1983, Buchanan wrote in his syndicated column gays have "declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution. "^[67] In later years he urged New York City Mayor Ed Koch and New York State Gov. Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924;) was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 Mario Cuomo to cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague. Mario Matthew Cuomo (born Queens New York, June 15, 1932) served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994 LGBT pride or gay pride refers to a world wide movement and philosophy asserting that LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and " In a 1990 interview, he stated he was, "the first national columnist to demand why the government wasn’t dealing with this national epidemic," and stood by his view that AIDS is a consequence of immoral sex. ^[68] In 1993, Buchanan called homosexuality unhealthy and said most people will describe sex between two men as, "not only immoral, but filthy. " Further, Buchanan said public acceptance of homosexuality inevitably leads to societal decay and the collapse of the family. ^[69] In his autobiography, he wrote,

"Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it, anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man's right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?"

However, Buchanan does not reject gays as political supporters. Sodomy (ˈsɒdəmi is a term used today predominantly in Law (derived from traditional Christian usage to describe the act of Anal intercourse, Oral intercourse ^[70] Notably, due to their common Old Right anti-war views, he developed professional ties with gay paleolibertarian Justin Raimondo. Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within American Libertarianism founded by Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard, and closely associated Justin Raimondo (born Dennis Raimondo on November 18, 1951) is a Paleoconservative / libertarian American Author

Feminism

In a 1983 syndicated column, Buchanan wrote women are "simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism. Will, or willpower is a philosophical concept that is defined in several different ways Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where "^[69]

In Right from the Beginning, Buchanan wrote: "The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers; they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate " He went on to explain these conveniences allowed "Mom" to spend more time reading, teaching or getting involved in the community. He vocally opposed the policy of allowing women to serve in military combat. In Death of the West, he wrote that early campaigners for women's rights such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton held social views distinctly different from those of second-wave feminists of the 1960s. Susan Brownell Anthony ( February 15, 1820 &ndash March 13, 1906) was a prominent American Civil rights leader who played Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12 1815 &ndash October 26 1902 was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Second-wave feminism refers to a period of Feminist activity which began during the 1960s and lasted through the late 1970s He has expressed his belief that the latter hold much of the responsibility for imperiling Western civilization. The term Western world, the West or the Occident ( Latin: occidens -sunset -west as distinct from the Orient) can have multiple meanings ^[71]

Guns and Crime

Buchanan denies gun ownership and violence are linked, saying the gun owner bears responsibility of keeping weapons away from children. In his 2000 presidential campaign he said:

The Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to own, possess, and use personal firearms, and as President I will ensure that this right is not compromised. People convicted of violent crime should forfeit their right to own firearms, but sportsmen, hunters, & law-abiding Americans should be allowed to use guns for pleasure or personal or family safety. Private ownership of guns gives citizens of this free republic the means to protect life, liberty and property -- and I will fully & faithfully protect that right. ^[72]

Buchanan endorsed armed resistance to urban unrest, saying, "There is one root cause that is common to all riots: rioters. When such people -- as they did early in May -- attack a bus carrying terrified commuters, they do not need to hear a lot of bullhocky about 'communicating' and 'dialogue. ' They need to hear through a local bullhorn the three little words that say it all: 'Lock and load!'"^[73]

Buchanan supports the war on drugs and, opposing marijuana legalization, he has said marijuana use is not a victimless crime. The War on Drugs is a prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government with the assistance of participating countries intended to reduce the Illegal Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi / Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā hemp) is a The term victimless crime refers to infractions of Criminal law without any identifiable Corpus delicti, or evidence of an Individual that ^[74] On the other hand, he has also declared that marijuana use for medicinal purposes should be a matter between patient and doctor. "If a doctor indicated to his patient that this was the only way to alleviate certain painful symptoms," Buchanan told the Charlotte Observer, "I would defer to the doctor's judgment". The Charlotte Observer, serving Charlotte North Carolina and its metro area, is the largest newspaper in terms of circulation in North ^[75]

He has denied using illegal drugs. ^[76] He once answered a New York Daily News reporter's question, "No to cocaine. The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily Newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703137 No to marijuana. And a question mark over Jack Daniels. "^[70]

National identity and immigration reform

Buchanan has been a contributor to VDARE, a paleoconservative website advocating immigration reduction. VDAREcom, or VDARE, is a Website that advocates reduced immigration especially illegal immigration into the United States. Immigration reduction refers to movements that advocate a reduction in the amount of Immigration allowed into their country

Assimilation and National Security

In 1992, he said: "if we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"^[77] He says an open Mexican border invites the drug trade, which he does not consider a victimless crime. The Zulu ( IsiZulu: amaZulu) are the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10-11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal ^[78] In Where the Right Went Wrong he claimed "the Communist Chinese government has the secret loyalty of millions of 'overseas Chinese' from Singapore to San Francisco. " He opposes Muslim immigration to the United States and Europe. ^[79]

Buchanan has vocally criticized large-scale immigration, both legal and illegal, especially coming across the Mexican border. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. He supports increased border security and opposed President Bush's guest worker program (which he labeled amnesty) for illegal immigrants. ^[80]

He states many left-wing Mexican-Americans have a revanchist view on territories lost to the United States in the Mexican-American War. See also History of Mexican-Americans Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican ancestry Revanchism (from French revanche " Revenge " is a term used since the 1870s to describe a political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial He declares their high birthrates threaten the social cohesion of certain parts of the country. In State of Emergency, he warned that the American Southwest could "become a giant Kosovo", still part of the United States, but Mexican in "language, ethnicity, history and culture. State of Emergency The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America is a 2006 book by American conservative Patrick Buchanan. The Southwestern area of the United States could be defined as the states west of the Mississippi River, with the qualification of a certain northern limit such as the 37 "

Buchanan says immigration poses a security risk and porous borders is making America vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

Race

In a 2002 speech, he said, "In the next 50 years, the Third World will grow by the equivalent of 30 to 40 new Mexicos. If you go to the end of the century, the white and European population is down to about three percent. This is what I call the death of the West. I see the nations dying when the populations die. I see the civilization dying. It is under attack in our own countries, from our own people. "^[81] Buchanan's book The Death of the West deplores the decline in non-Hispanic whites and argues no nations have held together without an ethnic majority. The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Culture and Civilization is a 2001 book by Paleoconservative commentator Patrick Buchanan believes if immigration and birth rate trends continue, young Americans((in that case Generation Y will spend their golden years in a "third world America", which will reduce the nation to a conglomeration of peoples with nothing in common. Generation Y, sometimes referred to as " Millennials " or " Echo Boomers " is a cohort of individuals born in possible starting years He believes this can be credited to the 1965 Immigration Act and the cultural revolution of the 1960s. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 ( Hart-Celler Act, INS Act of 1965,) abolished the national-origin Quotas that had been in place in the He notes past immigration was European, while 90 percent of new legal immigrants are Asian, African, and Latin American and they are not "melting and reforming. Asian or Asiatic is a Demonym for people from Asia. However the use of the term varies by country and person often referring to people from a particular "^[82]

In State of Emergency, he writes, "Any man or any woman, of any color or creed, can be a good American. We know that from our history. But when it comes to the ability to assimilate into a nation like the United States, all nationalities, creeds, and cultures are not equal. To say that is ideology speaking, not judgment born out of experience. " During an interview promoting the book, Buchanan said he did not prefer only white immigrants, yet lamented changes in demographics of the United States. The United States is an urbanized nation with 808 percent of its population of 305186613 residing in cities and suburbs as of mid-year 2005 "I'd like the country I grew up in. It was a good country. I lived in Washington, D.C., – 400,000 black folks, 400,000 white folks, in a country 89 or 90 percent white. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D I like that country". Asked if he believed the country should try to keep such ratio he replied "No, no. What I believe is that people should not deliberately alter the character and composition of the country without consulting the American people. If you adopt two children, Alan, you're going to go in and you're going to decide who comes. Who should decide who comes and who doesn't? First, illegals should not come. Secondarily, the American people should be consulted about how many immigrants come, what are the criteria. – And we haven't been consulted. "^[83]

Platform

In State of Emergency, Buchanan proposes the following immigration policy:

• 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration at a level between 150,000 and 250,000 per year
• A 2000-mile double-line security fence between the United States and Mexico
• A federally legislated end to all social welfare benefits for illegal aliens, except for emergency medical services
• A crackdown on major businesses that chronically hire illegal aliens and the elimination of deductibility for all wages paid to illegals
• A federal law to "restate the true meaning of the 14th Amendment" and denial of automatic citizenship to "anchor babies" born to illegal aliens
• A policy allowing immigrants to bring in only wives and non-adult children
• An end to dual citizenship in United States
• A deportation program beginning with all aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member who is not a citizen of the United States^[84]

Racial Issues

Buchanan says he supports "equal justice under law," and opposes "reverse discrimination" against whites. The United States&ndashMexico barrier, also known as the Texas border wall or Texas border fence is actually several Separation barriers designed to prevent The Fourteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post- Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first Anchor baby is a derogatory term for a child born in the United States to immigrants or other non-citizens regardless of the immigration status of the parents Multiple citizenship, or multiple nationality is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a Citizen under the laws of more than one state. ^[16] Buchanan sees affirmative action as discrimination and is a critic of the NAACP and others he sees as distancing blacks from "the American mainstream. Affirmative action in the United States|Employment equity (Canada|Reservation in India|Numerus clausus The term affirmative action describes many policies aimed at a historically The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential Civil rights organizations " He often accuses Republicans of pandering to such organizations out of their fear of being called racist. ^[85] As long as it is done respectfully and doesn't divide America, he does not see anything wrong with people preferring to associate with their race. However, he feels racial politics is dividing America. ^[86]

Buchanan writes in State of Emergency, "Race matters. Ethnicity matters. History matters. Faith matters. Nationality matters. While they are not everything, they are not nothing. Multiculturalism be damned, this is what history teaches us. "

He attacked President Clinton for profiting from blacks' votes, yet relegating blacks to political "Section Eight housing - secondary cabinet positions which have no influence in the inner core of an administration". ^[87]

Civil rights, crime, and immigration

Buchanan says while he did not oppose all aims of the Civil Rights Movement, he deplored what he saw as its increasingly left-wing orientation. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Buchanan expresses preference for the social and cultural views of most of Black America prior to the baby boom generation. Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was born during the Post-World War II baby boom between 1946 and 1964 In his 2001 book Death of the West Buchanan shows a more positive opinion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but assails African-Americans who do not consider themselves part of American culture. The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Culture and Civilization is a 2001 book by Paleoconservative commentator Patrick Origins The bill was introduced by President John F Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11 1963, in which he asked for legislation "giving

In his 2006 book State of Emergency, Buchanan writes having the federal government repeal the Jim Crow laws were the right decisions, but racial quotas and busing are/were not. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted primarily but not exclusively in the Southern and border states of the United States between 1876 and 1965 He maintains Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy was a good idea, and dedicates an entire chapter called "The Suicide of the G. In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican method of carrying Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of O. P. " to his view the Republican Party's new strategy of courting minority votes at the expense of its traditional base will spell doom.

State of Emergency also details his take on the importance of race, statistics dealing with race, crime and education, and America's history concerning race. In the book, Buchanan praises the anti-immigration positions of black leaders like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, his favorite black American leader,^[88] and W.E.B. DuBois. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14 1818 February 20 1895 was an American abolitionist, editor, Orator Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5 1856 &ndash November 14 1915 was an American educator orator author and leader of the African-American community William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (duːˈbɔɪz ( February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963) was an American Civil rights activist He has especially praised Washington's pleas with industrialists to hire Blacks instead of immigrants. He attacks modern day African-American leaders (along with today's union and business leaders) for not taking the same position. The book's view of the African-American community in general is critical in some instances and supportive in others, often taking the contemporary black community to task for the country's high crime rates but also portraying blacks as victims of illegal immigration and at times taking a sympathetic historical view of black Americans.

America did not listen [to Booker T. Washington's concerns]. Millions of jobs in burgeoning industries went to immigrants who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920. These men and women enriched our country. But they also moved ahead of and shouldered aside black men and women whose families had been here for generations and even centuries. Not until immigration had been dramatically cut in the Coolidge era, and World War II created an all-consuming demand for industrial workers, were black Americans brought by the hundreds of thousands north to the manufacturing cities of America. And when they were, a Black middle class was created upon which the civil rights movement was built. When immigration stopped, Black America advanced, as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and A. Philip Randolph said it would. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14 1818 February 20 1895 was an American abolitionist, editor, Orator Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5 1856 &ndash November 14 1915 was an American educator orator author and leader of the African-American community Asa Philip Randolph ( April 15 1889 &ndash May 16 1979) was a prominent twentieth century African-American civil rights leader [p. 231]

American Civil War

Buchanan has openly ridiculed those who oppose the display of Confederate flags in State capitals. The Confederate States of America used several Flags during its existence from 1861 to 1865 He has written the American Civil War was about States' Rights, self-determination, and "the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance", as well as irreconcilable cultural differences between the North and the South at the time. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The Northern United States is a large geographic region of the United States of America. The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive In The Death of the West, Buchanan cites this as an example of how culture is more important than political ideologies, because "[t]he South was 'attached to the same principles of government' as the North. The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Culture and Civilization is a 2001 book by Paleoconservative commentator Patrick But that did not prevent Southerners from fighting four years of bloody war to be free of their Northern brethren. "^[89] However, like other Southern conservatives of past generations, he has also expressed admiration for President Abraham Lincoln, calling him "the great protectionist of the Republican Party". Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal For the protectionist Australian political party from the 1880s to 1909 see Protectionist Party ^[90]

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Buchanan once heard King speak at a Baptist church in north St. Louis in 1962. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. ^[91] He claims King accused the 1964 Goldwater presidential campaign of, "dangerous signs of Hitlerism. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately "^[92] Buchanan urged Nixon not to visit King's widow Coretta Scott King in 1969, because, "It would outrage many, many people who believe Dr. Coretta Scott King (April 27 1927 January 30 2006 was an American Author and Activist, perhaps most recognized as the wife of Martin King was a fraud and a demagogue, and perhaps worse. . . . It does not seem to be in the interests of national unity for the president to lend his national prestige to the argument that this divisive figure is a modern saint. "^[93] He opposed making King's birthday a national holiday. Martin Luther King Jr Day is a United States Holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr

In a 2000 public radio interview, Buchanan said King was a divisive figure. ^[94]

[I said that in] a memo in 1969 whether we should recognize the day or go down and see Mrs. King, and I suggested we not see Mrs. King. I said, ‘Martin Luther King was one of the most divisive men. Some see him as the messiah of the nation, others think he’s a dreadful person. This article is about the concept of a Messiah in religion notably in the Christian Islamic and Jewish traditions He is a divisive figure. ’ Look, I knew Martin Luther King. I am the only candidate who was at the march on Washington. I was in the Lincoln Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. I was in Mississippi covering the civil rights demonstrations. . . Like every great movement, the civil rights movement had things that were attractive and things that were not. And for my history, friends, we make no apologies. ^[68]

Death of the West displays a more positive view of King and State of Emergency quotes him with approval, but Buchanan still disagrees with many positions attributed to King. For example, Buchanan says colorblindness is ultimately impossible and disputes the view that race is not an issue, dismissing such ideas as utopian and unrealistic. Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the In State of Emergency, he writes: "We will never escape the prison of race. It will forever poison our politics. "

Global affairs

Main article: Political views of Pat Buchanan on global affairs

Buchanan argues that the United States' ability to control its own affairs is under siege due to free trade ideology, globalism, globalization and other issues, discussed below. Here are some of the views expressed by American conservative political commentator and candidate Pat Buchanan on global affairs He once remarked, "we love the old republic, and when we hear phrases like 'new world order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers. "^[95]

Environmental protection

Environmentalism, property rights and trade

Buchanan says while he wants endangered species to survive, regulations protecting habitats are unconstitutional takings from private landowners. During his 2000 presidential campaign, he explained:

We have a Biblically-based obligation to be good stewards of the land as “keepers of the commons. ” However, the modern environmental movement has been co-opted by globalists who use international treaties to regulate our industries, and violate property rights by converting private holdings into public “habitats”. No one is more qualified to conserve land than the people who live on it. The government should not trample states' rights by turning local land into public property. ^[96]

In The Great Betrayal, Buchanan argues that free trade contributes to environmental destruction. He blames multinational corporations, saying they do not have the same vested interest in respecting nature as "economic patriots". He also opposes the Kyoto Protocol.

Animal welfare

PETA gave Buchanan the 2005 "Strongest Backbone" Proggy Award after his American Conservative magazine ran cover stories criticizing "factory farms and slaughterhouses. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Factory farming is the practice of raising Farm animals in confinement at high stocking density where a farm operates as a Factory &mdash a practice typical in A slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (from the French verb abattre, "to strike down" or freezing works ( New Zealand " The group said Buchanan made a "gutsy decision" to cover animal rights topics. ^[97] The articles were "Fear Factories"^[98] and "Dominion" by Matthew Scully, a former George W. Bush speechwriter. Matthew Scully (born March 30, 1959, in Casper Wyoming) is an American author journalist and speechwriter George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States.

Buchanan says that being a lifelong "cat fan" is what sparked his interest in the issue of animal cruelty. Cruelty to animals refers to the infliction of unnecessary Suffering or Harm to animals "I've always been disgusted by that," he remarked, "even though I'm not a vegetarian". ^[99]

Israel and accusations of anti-Semitism

Norman Podhoretz called him "soft on Hitler" and said he had a "habit of championing the cause of almost anyone accused of participating actively in Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews. Norman B Podhoretz (b January 16, 1930) is an American neoconservative theorist and writer for Commentary. "^[100] John Podhoretz, Norman's son, wrote: "You want to know what anti-Semitism is? When Pat Buchanan calls Israel's military action 'un-Christian',^[101] that's anti-Semitism". John Podhoretz (born April 18 1961) is an American commentator for a variety of media sources the author of several books on Politics, and ^[102]

Buchanan wrote in 1992 that "no true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children. . . I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish. . . So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite. "^[103] In a 1999 response to the elder Podhoretz, he said, "true anti-Semitism -- a hatred of Jews for who they are or what they believe -- is a disease of the heart. Unrepented of, it corrupts the soul. There is no such hatred in my heart for any group or any individual". ^[100] He argued in 2003 that "it is the charge of 'anti-Semitism' itself that is toxic. For this venerable slander is designed to nullify public discourse by smearing and intimidating foes and censoring and blacklisting them and any who would publish them".

Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust

Pat Buchanan says Adolf Hitler only sought to dominate Europe, making him, "no physical threat to the US" after 1940. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately He observes that to push Japan into starting a war, Franklin Delano Roosevelt "froze all Japanese assets, cutting off trade, including oil. "^[104] He refers to Roosevelt as "a base appeaser of Stalin" and that his administration was "shot through with Communist spies and traitors. Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party "^[105] "In World War II," he writes, "patriots argued the wisdom of FDR's 'Europe First' policy that left our men on Corregidor to the mercy of the butchers of Bataan". For the Spanish historical administrative position see Corregidor (position Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war ^[106] He says, "Responsibility for the lack of American preparedness at the time of Pearl Harbor rests wholly with FDR. Pearl Harbor is a Harbor on the Island of O{{okina}}ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. He had been in power nine years and had controlled both Houses of Congress for all nine of those years. Blaming our lack of preparedness on the isolationists (or even on the Communists) is the shilling of court historians". ^[107]

During the 2000 campaign, he elaborated on his interpretations of the roots of WWII:

"It was Wilsonism, liberal interventionism, not 'isolationism,' that created the moral-political swamp in which fascism, Hitlerism, and Stalinism were spawned. Wilsonianism or Wilsonian are words used to describe a certain type of ideological perspectives on Foreign policy. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Unable to deal with the truth - that their own heroes produced the disasters that may yet ring down the curtain on Western Civilization - the blind children of Wilson now scapegoat Pius XII and America First. Do those attacking me realize they are defending the policies that produced World War II and virtual annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe? While the West is busy erecting Holocaust museums, it has failed to study the history that produced it. ^[108]

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said despite Hitler's anti-Jewish and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage. . . Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path. "^[109]

In A Republic, Not an Empire, he refers to Auschwitz and Katyn as places "where SS and NKVD killers roamed free and labored long into the night. "Auschwitz" redirects here For the town see Oświęcim Auschwitz-Birkenau () was the largest of Nazi Germany The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the The NKVD ( НКВД, ru Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del'') or People's Commissariat "^[100] In another column, Buchanan mentions the Holocaust as one of the horrors of World War II along with "the collapse of the British Empire, the Stalinization of 11 nations of Eastern Europe, 50 million dead and half a century of Cold War. "^[110]

In his book State of Emergency, Buchanan blames Hitler and the Holocaust for contemporary "white guilt" and political correctness. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Political correctness (adjectivally politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to Language, ideas policies or behavior He quotes several Jewish voices in support of the melting pot concept as opposed to multiculturalism, and gives examples of anti-Jewish sentiment on the part of some Mexican immigrants. The melting pot is an analogy for the way in which homogeneous societies develop in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures races and religions are

In defending himself against charges of Nazi sympathies, Buchanan calls Hitler a "monster" guilty of "ugly actions and discriminatory laws". ^[100] He says the Holocaust did not become a Final Solution until the Wannsee conference in 1942, after the Pearl Harbor attack ended the debate over U. The Final Solution ( Die Endlösung) was Nazi Germany 's plan and execution of its systematic Genocide against European Jewry during World The Wannsee Conference was a Meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on S. involvement in World War II. Until then, the Holocaust was no more of a concern for U. S interventionist leaders than it was for the isolationists. ^[111] Buchanan says America fought on the right side of the conflict -- and after Hitler declared war on the United States, had no choice but to fight. ^[112]

"Great courage" controversy

In a 1977 Globe-Democrat column discussing John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler, Buchanan wrote:

Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him. John Toland ( November 30, 1670 - March 11, 1722) was an Irish Philosopher. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of an ethnic racial religious or national group World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Oratory is the art of (public speaking In ancient Greece and Rome, oratory was studied as a component of Rhetoric (that is composition and delivery . . Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path. A genius is a person of great Intelligence or remarkable abilities in a specific subject who shows an exceptional natural capacity of intellect and/or ability especially ^[113]

Slate's Jacob Weisberg takes credit for finding this quote as one evidence of Buchanan's alleged bigotry. Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture Magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political Journalist, currently serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group a division of The Washington Post Company ^[114] Buchanan supporters say the paragraph is easily taken out of context. ^[103] They point out that in the same review Buchanan praised Winston Churchill for seeing that "Hitler was marching along the road toward a New Order where Western civilization would not survive" and concluded that modern-day statesmen were not following that example. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 ^[113]

Charles Lindbergh

Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, in an October 11, 1999, letter to the Washington Post claimed that A Republic, Not an Empire "defends Charles Lindbergh against charges of anti-Semitism, not mentioning the infamous 1940 [sic] speech in which he accused the Jews of warmongering. Abraham Foxman is the current National Director and Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League. The Anti-Defamation League ( ADL) is an Interest group founded in 1913 by B'nai B'rith in the United States whose stated aim is "to stop The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout " Buchanan denies this and points out Foxman's error, saying that he mentioned the 1941 speech to say it "ignited a national firestorm," which lingered after the aviator's death, and shows "the explosiveness of mixing ethnic politics and foreign policy". ^[115] Buchanan also said in 2002:

There was nothing immoral, or unwise, about the isolationists’ position of 1940-41. Because of the courageous efforts of Lindbergh and America First, the United States stayed out of the war until Hitler threw the full force of his war machine against Stalin. Thus, the Soviet Union, not America’s young, bore the brunt of defeating Nazi Germany. ^[107]

Iwan Demjanjuk

Buchanan asserted that six men accused of Nazi-era war crimes were innocent: Iwan Demjanjuk, Karl Linnas, Arthur Rudolph, Frank Walus, Ivan Stebelsky, Tscherim Soobzokov. War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war" including but not limited to "murder the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied John Demjanjuk, born Ivan Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920) is an Ukrainian-born retired auto worker and naturalized United States citizen who gained notoriety Karl Linnas was an Estonian who was sentenced to capital punishment during the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia. Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9 1906 – January 1 1996 was a rocket engineer for Nazi Germany who helped develop and produce the V-2 rocket. Frank Walus was born in Poland in 1922 worked in Germany during the war and emigrated to the USA in the mid 1940s Tsherim Soobzokov was a sixty-one year old Circassian accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the invasion of the USSR and serving as a Waffen-SS ^[100] Ukrainian born Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker accused of operating the gas chambers at the Treblinka concentration camp, received the most attention. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing consisting of a sealed chamber into which a Poisonous or Asphyxiant gas is introduced Treblinka II was a German Extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial Buchanan called his trial a witch hunt and said "Demjanjuk had never even been at Treblinka". ^[100] After a highly publicised trial, Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death by an Israeli court, but his conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court of Israel on the grounds of mistaken identity. The Supreme Court ( Hebrew: בית המשפט העליון Beit haMishpat ha'Elyon) is at the head of the court system in the State of Israel. Buchanan wrote at the time that this spared Israel the disgrace of hanging an innocent man. ^[100]

In a 1990 column defending Demjanjuk, Buchanan also claimed, "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. In 1988, 97 kids, trapped 400 feet underground in a Washington, D. C. , tunnel while two locomotives spewed diesel exhaust into the car, emerged unharmed after 45 minutes. Demjanjuk's weapon of mass murder cannot kill". ^[116] When asked for his source, Buchanan said, "somebody sent it to me". Critic Jamie McCarthy says this claim may have come from the German American Information and Education Association's newsletter, a publication he accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial is the claim that the Genocide of Jews during World War II —usually referred to as The Holocaust —did not occur in the He also argues that "unlike the locomotive engineer in Buchanan's example, who was concerned with saving the lives of trapped people, the Nazis had no qualms about opening the engine's throttle and restricting the air intake". ^[117] The Washington Post reported in 1989, before the controversy, that, "An Amtrak train had been stalled in a tunnel for half an hour, and smoke from the diesel engine had filled the first car, where there were 97 fifth-grade pupils and 27 adult chaperones. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D [EMT Cynthia] Brown boarded the train, guided the passengers -- most of whom suffered from smoke inhalation -- from the car and assisted those who needed immediate attention. "^[118]

U. S. -Israel Policy

Although he regularly criticizes U. S. policy in the Middle East, Buchanan says he favors "a strong, independent state of Israel. "^[103] He wrote in 1999, "As for my views on Israel, they have changed. With the Intifada, I came to believe that Israel's survival now mandated a homeland, a flag, and a nation of their own for the Palestinian people. A friend I made in Israel at the end of the Six Day War, Yitzhak Rabin, reached the same conclusion at the same time. For attempting to negotiate peace with Arafat, Rabin, too, was called an anti-Semite and Nazi, and was murdered in that climate of hatred". ^[100] In Buchanan's opinion, "The Israeli people are America’s friends and have a right to peace and secure borders. We should help them secure these rights. " He believes that the United States has a "moral commitment" to recognize Israel's right to defend itself, "But U. S. and Israeli interests are not identical. They often collide, and when they do, U. S. interests must prevail". ^[119]

Buchanan argues that much American "meddling" in the Middle East is not to protect the U. S. national interest but largely done to support Israel. Buchanan has referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied territory. Capitol Hill, aside from being a Metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential Neighborhood in Washington D "^[120] In 1991 he wrote Congress has become "a Parliament of Whores incapable of standing up for U. S. national interests if AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is on the other end of the line. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC) is an American Lobbying group that advocates for pro- Israel policies to the Congress and The American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC) is an American Lobbying group that advocates for pro- Israel policies to the Congress and "^[121] He accuses Israel of spying on the U. S. in many instances other than the well-publicized case of Jonathan Pollard, about whom he wrote, "Israel suborned Jonathan Pollard to loot our secrets and refuses to return the documents, which would establish whether or not they were sold to Moscow. Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954 in Galveston, Texas) is a convicted Israeli Spy and a former United States When Clinton tried to broker an agreement at Wye Plantation between Israel and Arafat, Bibi Netanyahu attempted to extort, as his price for signing, release of Pollard, so he could take this treasonous snake back to Israel as a national hero". ^[119] In the 1990s, he endorsed the "land for peace" policy in the Middle East. ^[103] He also strongly praised Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,^[122] calling him "the statesman who brought peace after a half century of fighting for Israel's place in the sun". ^[103]

The first widespread accusations of anti-Semitism against Buchanan concerned the September 15, 1990, McLaughlin Group program. ^[123] On it, Buchanan said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States. The Ministry of Defense (משרד הביטחון Misrad HaBitakhon) of the government of Israel, is the governmental department responsible for defending "^[123] He also said, "The Israelis want this war desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our relations with the Arab world. "^[123] This sparked New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal to complain of "venom" and a "blood libel" against Jews, saying "that to be silent about anti-Semitism would be a sin with which I could not live. Blood libels are sensationalized allegations that a person or group engages in Human sacrifice, often accompanied by the claim that the Blood of victims is used in "^[123] ("Amen corner" is a slang term used by some American Protestants to describe a group of people who sit in near one another in church and shout "Amen!" whenever the preacher makes a point. In this sense, it is not necessarily pejorative. )

Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said before the 1990 invasion of Iraq, Buchanan made "an appeal to anti-Semitic bigotry"^[115] and "accused Israel's American supporters of goading the United States into the Persian Gulf War"^[124] by writing in one column, '"The civilized world must win this fight,' the editors thunder. Abraham Foxman is the current National Director and Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League. The Anti-Defamation League ( ADL) is an Interest group founded in 1913 by B'nai B'rith in the United States whose stated aim is "to stop But, if it comes to war, it will not be the 'civilized world' humping up that bloody road to Baghdad; it will be American kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown. " Buchanan doesn't see anything anti-Semitic about this statement, and he responded, "If it is the lack of Jewish names among those soldiers, why is my list not also anti-Italian, anti-Greek, and anti-Polish?"^[115]

A Palestinian State

Buchanan supports an independent Palestinian state, but criticized Yasser Arafat's leadership. Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ( Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني (August 24 1929 – November 11 ^[125] He compared the 2002 Battle of Jenin to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the battle of intractable foes. The Battle of Jenin took place from April 3 to April 11, 2002 in the Refugee camp of Jenin, in the West Bank. "Auschwitz" redirects here For the town see Oświęcim Auschwitz-Birkenau () was the largest of Nazi Germany He says a Palestinian state is the only hope for peace -- and would give the Palestinians "a huge stake" in "preventing acts of terror against Israel – i. e. , national survival". ^[126] He also said that "Israeli repression" made the Palestinians radical -- and describes U. S. policy as "waging war on innocents to break their political leaders" and fueling anti-American hatreds. ^[127]

Terrorism and 9/11

Buchanan argues Islamic terror groups target America, "for what we do, not who we are. " He is critical of the aggressive post September 11 War on Terrorism which he claims ignores the root causes of terror in favor of short-term military victories. The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U He advocated the use of torture to get information from terrorists. Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental is intentionally ^[128]

Iraq

From the earliest days, consistent with his opposition to the Gulf War of 1990-1991, Buchanan is an outspoken critic of the 2003 Iraq War. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1 2003 was spearheaded by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia He argues it is largely fought to defend Israeli and American oil interests and is a useless war based on deception and imperialism. Imperialism has two meanings one describing an action and the other describing an attitude

Lebanon

During Israel's conflict with Lebanon in July 2006, he accused President Bush of "subcontracting U. S. policy out to Tel Aviv, thus making Israel the custodian of our reputation and interests in the Middle East. " Further, he said when Bush was asked if he would urge Israel to restrain airstrikes, he "sounded less like the leader of the Free World than some bellicose city councilman from Brooklyn Heights. " He concluded there is no proof to substantiate Bush's claim Syria was behind Hezbollah's capture of the Israeli soldiers, and added those "whispering in his ear" are "The same people who told him Iraq was maybe months away from an atom bomb, that an invasion would be a 'cakewalk,' that he would be Churchill, that U. S. troops would be greeted with candy and flowers, that democracy would break out across the region, that Palestinians and Israelis would then sit down and make peace? How much must America pay for the education of this man?"^[129]

Neoconservatism

Buchanan vocally opposes those neoconservatives whom he calls "undocumented aliens from the Left, carrying with them the viruses of statism and globalism". Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism Statism (or Etatism) is a very loose and often Derogatory term that is used to describe Specific instances of state intervention in personal social Globalization (or globalisation) in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones He describes their first generation as people who began as "Trotskyist, socialists or Social Democrat", then became "JFK-LBJ Democrats", but broke with the Left during the Vietnam War and "came into their own" during Reagan's administration. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Social democracy is a Political ideology of the left and centre-left The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia ^[33] He said he welcomed the Neocons during the early 1970s, but that it has become an inquisition, "hurling anathemas at any who decline to embrace their revised dogmas". Buchanan compares "Neocons" to squatters who take over a once-beloved home (the Republican Party) and convert it into a crack house. ^[100]

Buchanan also denies the neoconservative maxim that the United States is "the first universal nation",^[130] one that embodies rational, democratic principles about freedom, equality and virtue that are applicable everywhere. ^[131] He says "every true nation is the creation of a unique people", sharing a common heritage, culture and language. Further, "Americans are a people apart from all others, with far more in common than political beliefs. "^[132] He also says that America's modern-day sexual immorality and "imperial decadence" are not worth emulating: In his opinion, "A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women's 'emancipation,' that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year-old girls at junior high ought to be seeking out a confessional – better yet, an exorcist – rather than striding into a pulpit like Elmer Gantry to lecture mankind on the superiority of 'American values. For the film based on the novel see Elmer Gantry (film For information on the UK singer Elmer Gantry aka Dave Terry see Elmer Gantry’s Velvet '"^[133]

In March 2003, Buchanan wrote an American Conservative cover story arguing that neoconservatives want "to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interest. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki " He claimed that Lawrence Kaplan, David Brooks, Max Boot, Robert Kagan and others used anti-Semitism charges to intimidate Iraq War critics. David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-American political and cultural commentator Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Russia) American Author, Consultant, Editorialist Lecturer and Military Robert Kagan (born September 26 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American Neoconservative political commentator The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign Buchanan wrote that the American national interest is at stake and "warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon. (אריאל " He argued that a group of "polemicists and public officials" was "colluding with Israel" to start wars, wreck the Oslo Accords, damage U. Israeli-Palestinian conflict The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles S. relations with Arab states, alienate Western and Islamic allies, and threaten the peace won by winning the Cold War. ^[119]

See also: Neoconservatism, paleoconservatism, and neoconservatism and paleoconservatism

In popular culture

• In the popular television show Will and Grace, Grace sets Will up on a date with a man Will does not like. Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Starting in the 1980s two factions in the American Conservative movement began quarrelling with one another Neoconservatives and Paleoconservatives. Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award -winning American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006 Will responds in disgust "I would rather go out with an Ebola-riddled gibbon monkey than this guy. Hell, I'd rather go out with Pat Buchanan than this guy. "
• Hunter S. Thompson considered Buchanan a friend. Hunter Stockton Thompson ( July 18, 1937 &ndash February 20, 2005) was an American Journalist and Author, most Buchanan was among dozens who offered a statement in Rolling Stone after the journalist's suicide in 2005. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published ^[134] About Buchanan, Thompson once wrote, "We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him. "^[135]
• Ali G interviewed Buchanan on Da Ali G Show in the "Sandwich War" interview, where the commentator played along, in a good-natured manner, in calling WMDs "BLTs. Ali G ( AKA Ali stair Leslie G raham was a satirical Fictional character invented and played by English Comedian Da Ali G Show is the name of two related satirical TV series starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character A weapon of mass destruction ( WMD) is a weapon which can kill large numbers of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e The BLT is a variety of Sandwich containing '''B'''acon, '''L'''ettuce, and '''T'''omato. " Buchanan went on to say that he would dramatically change America, and that is why he "would never become president. "

Also in the interview, he admitted to previously smoking marijuana when asked, "Yo, is you mashed or something?", (Buchanan laughing aloud), "You's like so giggly. You had a little puff before?", to which he replied, "Oh, sure. I've had a little puff before. " ^[136]

• Buchanan is a guest star on the second episode of the Al Franken NBC sitcom LateLine, which aired on March 24, 1998. Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21 1951 is an Emmy Award –winning American Comedian, Writer, progressive The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Lateline is an Australian Television news and current affairs program airing weeknights at 1030 pm on ABC1, similar in format to the BBC 's ^[137]
• Buchanan is referred to as a past President of the United States in Robert J. Sawyer's 2005 novel Mindscan, which takes place in 2045 and features an ultra-conservative United States of America and an ever-more-liberal Canada. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Robert J Sawyer is a Canadian Science fiction writer born in Ottawa in 1960 and now resident in Mississauga.
• The 1992 Bush re-election campaign ran a TV ad in Michigan that mocked Buchanan's economic nationalism. Economic nationalism is a term used to describe policies which are guided by the idea of protecting domestic consumption labor and capital formation even if this requires the imposition In it, a voiceover read, "Pat Buchanan tells us 'America First. ' But while our auto industry suffers, Pat Buchanan chose to buy a foreign car, a Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of luxury Automobiles Buses coaches and Trucks It is currently a division of the Pat Buchanan called his American cars 'lemons. '"^[138] At the time Buchanan said he bought it in 1989 "for the missus" and that unloading it would be an empty gesture. ^[139] He later sold the car back to its previous owner. ^[140] In 2002, he said he drove a Lincoln Navigator and a Cadillac STS. The Lincoln Navigator is a Full-size luxury SUV produced by Ford Motor Company for its luxury division Lincoln. The STS (Seville Touring Sedan is a Mid-size car manufactured and sold by Cadillac. ^[141]

• Garry Wills mentioned Buchanan in his 1968 book Nixon Agonistes. Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta Georgia) is an Author and Historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York "As usual he has a black overcoat on," he wrote. "with the collar wrapped up around his lumpy raw face -- a 40-year-old torpedo, hands on the iron in his pockets? No, he is 29, a writer, one of Nixon's fresh batch of intellectuals. " Buchanan memorized the description. ^[5]
• Village Voice reporter Tom Carson once told Buchanan, "I've been waiting my whole life for someone running for President to talk about the Fortune 500 as the enemy -- and when I finally get my wish, it turns out to be you". This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. Please do not add the complete list of fortune 500 companies The list is copyrighted by Fortune which makes money by selling the content ^[142]
• In the 2002 movie Big Trouble, Arthur Herk, played by Stanley Tucci, is described as "one of the few Floridians not confused when he voted for Pat Buchanan". Big Trouble ( 2002) is an American Comedic film based on the Novel Big Trouble by Dave Barry. Stanley Tucci Jr (born 11 November 1960) is an American Golden Globe - and Emmy Award -winning Screen Actors Guild - and Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the
• In the animated series Futurama, there have been many references ridiculing the Reform Party. Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and In the episode "Future Stock", Planet Express is offered for sale to Momcorp, a giant conglomerate. "Future Stock" is the 21st episode in the third production season of Futurama. Mom is a Fictional character and recurring Antagonist in the Animated series Futurama, voiced by Tress MacNeille. During the vote of Momcorp shareholders to ratify the sale, one of Mom's slow-witted sons accidentally votes for Pat Buchanan.

Electoral history

United States presidential election, 1992 (Republican primaries)^[143]

• George H. W. Bush (inc. The United States presidential elections of 1992 featured a battle between incumbent President, Republican George H George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 ) - 9,199,463 (72. 84%)
• Pat Buchanan - 2,899,488 (22. 96%)
• Unpledged delegates - 287,383 (2. 28%)
• David Duke - 119,115 (0. David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Louisiana State Representative, a Candidate in Presidential primaries for the 94%)
• Ross Perot - 56,136 (0. Henry Ross Perot (born June 27 1930 is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in 44%)
• Pat Paulsen - 10,984 (0. Patrick Layton Paulsen (July 6 1927 – April 24 1997 was an American Comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers 09%)
• Maurice Horton - 9,637 (0. 08%)
• Harold Stassen - 8,099 (0. Harold Edward Stassen ( April 13, 1907 March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943 and a later Perennial 06%)

United States presidential election, 1996 (Republican primaries)^[144]:

• Bob Dole - 9,024,742 (58. The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time 82%)
• Pat Buchanan - 3,184,943 (20. 76%)
• Steve Forbes - 1,751,187 (11. Malcolm Stevenson " Steve " Forbes Jr (born July 18, 1947) is the son of Malcolm Forbes and the editor-in-chief of business 41%)
• Lamar Alexander - 495,590 (3. Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party 23%)
• Alan Keyes - 471,716 (3. Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7 1950 08%)
• Dick Lugar - 127,111 (0. Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana. 83%)
• Unpledged delegates - 123,278 (0. 80%)
• Phil Gramm - 71,456 (0. William Philip Gramm (born July 8 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia, USA is an American politician who served as a Democratic 47%)
• Bob Dornan - 42,140 (0. Robert Kenneth "Bob" Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is a Republican and former member of the United States House of Representatives from 28%)
• Morry Taylor - 21,180 (0. Maurice "Morry" Taylor Jr (born August 28 1944 is the President and Chief executive officer of Titan International Inc 14%)

Won in Alaska, New Hampshire and Louisiana

1996 Republican National Convention

• Bob Dole - 1928
• Pat Buchanan - 47
• Steve Forbes - 2
• Alan Keyes - 1
• Robert Bork - 1

United States presidential election, 2000 (Reform Party primaries)^[145]

• Donald Trump - 2,878 (33. Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America The 1996 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States convened at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC in San Diego California Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of Originalism. The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American Business magnate, Socialite, Television personality, and 39%)
• Pat Buchanan - 2,213 (25. 68%)
• Uncommitted - 1,164 (13. 51%)
• No preference - 617 (7. 16%)
• Charles E. Collins - 535 (6. Charles Edwin Collins was an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 1996 presidential election and sought unsuccessfully to 21%)
• John B. Anderson - 468 (5. John Bayard Anderson (born February 15 1922 is an attorney and former United States Congressman and Presidential candidate 43%)
• Robert Bowman - 292 (3. Robert Bowman may refer to Rob Bowman (filmmaker (born 1960 prolific American filmmaker Robert M 39%)
• John Hagelin - 220 (2. John Hagelin, scientist educator and three-time third-party candidate for President of the United States is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science Technology 55%)
• George Weber - 217 (2. 52%)

2000 Reform Party National Convention^[146]

• Pat Buchanan - 453 (98. 69%)
• Abstaining - 6 (1. 31%)

United States presidential election, 2000

• George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) - 50,460,110 (47. The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. 9) and 271 electoral votes (30 states carried)
• Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (D) - 51,003,926 (48. Albert Arnold Gore Jr (born March 31 1948 is an American environmental Activist, author Businessperson, former Politician, and former Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 1942 is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. 4%) and 266 electoral votes (20 states and D. C. carried)
• Abstaining - 1 electoral vote (faithless elector from D. Faithless electors are members of the Electoral College who do not cast their electoral votes for the people they have pledged to vote for C. )
• Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke (Green) - 2,883,105 (2. Ralph Nader (born February 27 1934 is an American Attorney, Author, Lecturer, political activist, and independent candidate for President Winona LaDuke (born 1959 is a Native American Activist, Environmentalist, Economist, and Writer. 7%)
• Pat Buchanan/Ezola B. Foster (Reform) - 449,225 (0. Ezola Broussard Foster (born August 9, 1938) is an American conservative Political activist. 4%)
• Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian) - 384,516 (0. Harry Browne ( 17 June 1933 – 1 March 2006) was an American libertarian Writer, Politician, Arthur C “Art” Olivier, former mayor of Bellflower California, was the Libertarian candidate for Vice President in the United States presidential 4%)
• Howard Phillips/Curtis Frazier (Constitution) - 98,022 (0. Howard Phillips (born February 6 1941 has served as the Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a Conservative public policy advocacy group since 1974 Dr J Curtis Frazier a surgeon from Springfield Missouri was the vice-presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in the U 1%)
• John Hagelin/Nat Goldhaber (Natural Law) - 83,702 (0. John Hagelin, scientist educator and three-time third-party candidate for President of the United States is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science Technology A Nathaniel ("Nat" Goldhaber - An Internet entrepreneur and longtime associate of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was the Natural Law Party nominee for Vice President 1%)

Books and articles

Books

• Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (May 27, 2008) ISBN 0-307-40515-X
• Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart (November 27, 2007) ISBN 0-312-37696-0
• State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (August 22, 2006) ISBN 0-312-36003-7
• Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (2004) ISBN 0-312-34115-6
• The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (2002) ISBN 0-312-28548-5
• A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) ISBN 0-89526-272-X
• The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy (1998) ISBN 0-316-11518-5
• Right from the Beginning (1988) ISBN 0-316-11408-1
• Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (1975) ISBN 0-8129-0582-2
• The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-Passage (1973)

Major speeches

• 1992 Republican National Convention keynote, August 17, 1992
• 1996 campaign announcement, March 20, 1995
• 1996 campaign speech, Georgia primary stump speech February 29, 1996
• 2000 campaign announcement, March 2, 1999
• 2000 Reform Party nomination acceptance, August 12, 2000
• The Cultural War for the Soul of America, September 14, 1992
• Death of The West, Commonwealth Club speech January 14, 2002
• Free Trade, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations speech November 18, 1998
• A Time for Truth about China, Commonwealth Club speech April 5, 1999
• To Reunite a Nation, Richard Nixon Library speech on immigration January 18, 2000

Selected articles

• PJB: A Brief For Whitey, column March 21, 2008
• The Dark side of Diversity column May 1, 2007
• The Aggressors in the Culture Wars, column March 8, 2004. State of Emergency The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America is a 2006 book by American conservative Patrick Buchanan. The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Culture and Civilization is a 2001 book by Paleoconservative commentator Patrick A Republic Not An Empire is a 1999 book written by American political figure Patrick J
• The Death of Manufacturing, American Conservative August 11, 2003. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki
• The Death of the West, book excerpt on MSNBC. com, Oct 30, 2003.
• Ghostbusting the Smoot-Hawley Ogre, column October 20, 1993
• 'Ivan The Terrible' - More Doubts, column March 17, 1990
• A Lesson in Tyranny Too Soon Forgotten, column August 25, 1977
• The Old Right and the Future of Conservatism, by Patrick J. Buchanan. Foreword to the second edition of Justin Raimondo's 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right
• The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz, column January 18, 2002
• Response to Norman Podhoretz, letter to The Wall Street Journal November 5, 1999
• Time for Economic Nationalism, column June 12, 1995
• True Fascists of the New Europe, column April 30, 2002
• What Do We Offer the World?, column May 19, 2004
• Whose War?, American Conservative March 24, 2003
• Where are the Christians?, column July 18, 2006

The American Cause archives several years of Buchanan's newspaper columns. The American Conservative (TAC is a biweekly US opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki

VDARE archives many articles written by Buchanan. VDAREcom, or VDARE, is a Website that advocates reduced immigration especially illegal immigration into the United States.

Interviews

• Ten Questions for Pat Buchanan by Jeff Chu, Time, Aug. 20, 2006
• Is This the Face of the Twenty-First Century?, by Bill Kauffman, The American Enterprise, July/August 1998.
• Pat Buchanan Defends Controversial Immigration Comments Fox News partial transcript, Hannity & Colmes," August 22, 2006
• Republicans: Whitman, Buchanan and Terror, "Open Source" public radio show. (audio)
• Pat Buchanan discusses his book State of Emergency on Book TV, August 24, 2006 (Video)

See also

• Antifeminism
• Bay Buchanan
• Conservatism
• Constitution Party (United States)
• Culture war
• Ezola Foster
• Globe-Democrat
• Non-interventionism
• Old Right
• Paleoconservatism
• Populism
• Protectionism
• Traditionalist world view (American)
• Traditionalist Catholicism
• Reform Party of the United States of America

References

External links

Preceded by Ross Perot

Reform Party Presidential candidate 2000 (4th)

Succeeded by Ralph Nader

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