Posted on 10/13/2004 1:11:03 PM PDT by Willie Green
If President Bush fails in his re-election bid, the enduring image of his campaign will be the scowls on his face while Democratic nominee John Kerry answered questions during the debate at the University of Miami last month, according to one of Bush's opponents in 2000.
"It was the single most disastrous performance of any president at the debate level," Patrick J. Buchanan, the 2000 Reform Party presidential candidate, said Tuesday night at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. "He had the chance to put it away."
Buchanan spoke at Fisher Auditorium for the college's "Ideas and Issues" lecture series, which is sponsored by the IUP Center for Student Life. The conservative commentator, who also sought the Republican nomination for president in 1992 and 1996, lambasted the two-party system in America for generating candidates who are "two wings of the same bird of prey."
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LOL. That sure is bad news for Bush because all the neo-cons and fellow travcllers always take the opposite position from Buchanan.
What, Buchanan has now decided to join the FR illiterates, realizing as the rest of us have a long ago, that it's just hopeless?
For all his faults, Pat sure does have a way with words. LOL.
To the nut house, he'd throw the election to Kerry just to make a point. He took almost 500,000 votes in 2000 from Bush....
Go Away Pat! Go Away!
Depends on what you mean by disastrous first debate. Are you talking about STYLE or SUBSTANCE? I have met charming men who weren't worth their weight in spit. On the other hand, give me a good old down home cowboy with a good head and a good heart! Substance trumps Style!
Kerry is so smooth like the underbelly of a snake!
We can always count on Buchanan to speak up when he sorely needed....by the left.
His whole argument is that Bush was neo-conned. Then he says Bush needs to be reelected to "fix their mistake." If he really thinks that Bush has been had, why would he vote for him and the rest of the Administration?
It doesn't matter to me,
but the libertarians just luv anything that has to do with bongs.
I'm sure they wouldn't mind another explanation.
They have short attention spans and probably wouldn't realize they've heard it before.
Students can pick up free tickets starting today at the Hadley Union Building ticket office for the series' second speaker, filmmaker and author Michael Moore, who will speak at Memorial Field House on Oct. 26 at 8 p.m.
September 30, 2004
Bush won the debate.
Pat and his ilk may be dazzled by presentation, such as it was from Monsieur Kerry, but I will never be told that content does not matter when determining who wins.
Sure looks that way...
According to the article I posted in reply #18,
it sez he's gonna vote for Dubya in the futile hope of getting a conservative SCOTUS appointment.
Sheesh, and to think I was considering writing in his name again this year.
Well THAT's settled anyway...
Looks like I'm gonna write-in William R. Hawkins and Alan Tonnelson instead.
Pat thinks that Bush believes in 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' and Kerry is hopeless.
Pat agrees with Novak that Bush is on the exit ramp. Bush got all the election support he needed from being the 'War President'. He's gonna drop the neo-conners like a hot potato and be hot to trot on the Palestine State. He 'says what he means and means what he says'.
If there's a SCOTUS opening, I bet that Dubya's first choice will be Arlen Specter because of his widely recognized expertise on Scottish Law.
Pat should stick to promoting Borders, Language and Culture. He is strategically pretty much a zero in my book. Excellent tactician and rhetoritician in those three areas I mentioned, but good at little else. His failure to recognize rope a dope demonstrates this.
The first debate was classic rope a dope.
Still trying to get John Kerry elected, Willie?
How ironic.
Pat Buchanan, probably the most offensive person in politics, giving tips on how to influence people.
A regular Dale Carnegie, that Pat is.
I am tired to this crap, I saw the first debate, did Bush win, no. Was it a blow out for Kerry No! I saw the analysis after the first debate and nearly everone said Kerry won on points but Bush made no mistakes. Then the dems starting with the smirking video and by Monday Bush was blown out. Bush won the second debate, but the MSM started with Bush was mean to Charlie Gibson, and the numbers changed and most think Kerry won the second debate.
No, but you just can't explain that to those who suffer from a bipolar mental disorder. They keep insisting that the Republicrat candidates are the only options available.
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