[JimSEA]

Pat’s Culture War speech wasn’t bad at all although he went a little far in some sections. However, the idea that you couldn’t even participate if you didn’t fit a certain “European” criteria which creeped into his campaign was something else to me.

[Richard Kimball]

I liked a lot of the culture war speech, and didn’t think that was what hurt him. Over time, the racial overtones and the meanness just bled through. For a guy that has spent as much of his life on camera as Buchanan, he seemed to have no idea how to present himself in media to win people over. He did one photo op that didn’t get as much play, but in my opinion was as bad as the Dukakis tank moment. Someone had given him a rifle, and he put on some hat that looked like the one Walter Brennan wore in the old westerns. He always wore his pants too high, and he looked like a bootlegger from the Andy Griffith show.

[TradicalRC]

However, the idea that you couldn’t even participate if you didn’t fit a certain “European” criteria which creeped into his campaign was something else to me.

Seeing as how under LBJ the immigration laws have been reconfigured to discriminate AGAINST European immigration, his Pro-European paean bothers me not in the least.