[Steve_Seattle]

"I hope the next GOP presidential candidate will not be another old school gentleman, but a tough minded street fighter."

Of course, the Dems think BUSH is a mean, nasty street fighter. Buchanan was in reality sort of like the Dems' caricature of Bush, and Buchanan was exiled from Republican podiums years ago, after party officials believed the press nonsense that the Buckaroo had shocked Americans with his speech at the - was it 1992? - convention.

[Wallace T.]

Buchanan was exiled from Republican podiums years ago, after party officials believed the press nonsense that the Buckaroo had shocked Americans with his speech at the - was it 1992? - convention.

The fact is that after the convention, the GOP ticket received a boost and was ahead of Clinton and Perot. Yet the conventional wisdom developed in Republican circles after the elder Bush's disastrous defeat that Buchanan's militant speech had cost the party the Presidency. Even a conservative like Dan Quayle repeated the allegation in an interview during the late 1990s.