[Theodore R.]

Pat Buchanan "campaigned" actively for the senior George Bush after the 1992 primaries. Buchanan's speech at the Houston convention will be long remembered for its clarion call to fight and prevail in the ongoing "cultural war." Immediately after that speech, the Bush-Quayle ticket enjoyed its last resurgence in the opinion polls.

Pat Buchanan was a symptom of the first Bush's political problems. He did not contribute to Bush's defeat. Most of the Perotistas of 1992 were NOT Buchananites. Perot, for instance, refused to support Buchanan as the "Reform" Party candidate in 2000. The Buchanan people stood loyally behind Bush-Quayle. We did nothing to aid Clinton-Gore.

[Brian Allen]

<< .... [Mr] Buchanan "campaigned" actively for [President] George [Herbert Walker] Bush after the 1992 primaries. >>

You already put it in quotes and saved me the trouble. Thanks.

Mr Buchanan's speech on that occasion was the best political I have ever heard. But he had already done maximum damage to President Bush -- and in any case 70% of voters thought his convention address was John-Birch-esque. The effect of the Buchanan speech was extremely negative insofar as the Republican Party was concerned.

And every political move Mr Buchanan has made from the minute he left the podium after that great speech has been sillier, more desperate, less honest, more grasping, more totalitarian and more trade-Luddite-esque than the move before.

Mr Buchanan, in short, should have quit when he was only [WAY!] behind.

In 1992.