[MindFire]

pro-choice??? I am not too familiar with Buchanan but i was always under the impression he is a devout Catholic. I doubt he is pro-choice in any way. Do you have any verification of your claims?

[AlbionGirl]

He is pro-life, I guess, but the Reform Party plank was not, and he glommed (sp?) on to the $13M they were able to give him, and it didn't matter to him. But he left the Republican party, murmuring about how they were abandoning their principles.

He's a fraud, at the very least. I also am suspicious about his problems with the Amen Corner, but I'm not willing to call him an anti-semite because that's a hell of a charge, even Buckley didn't want to go there, and neither do I.

Suffice it to say, that when his turn came, compromise was as big a part of his lexicon as any other politiican.