[Pharmboy]

Nope--no lie. Patsy was never a conservative: he was (and remains) a right-wing populist (a bit more circumspect than, say, Father Coughlin, but essentially the same message).

True conservatives would never appear on a podium with a commie like Fulani or anyone else in her cult. The right wing populists share much with their left wing counterparts, except for their feelings about big central gummints.

[Thorin]

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Fulani and Buchanan had nothing in common ideologically. Fulani had become a power in the Reform Party, and supported Buchanan as a way of gaining power over her rivals in that very dysfunctional party. Once Buchanan had the nomination in hand, and Fulani saw she was getting nothing from him, she walked out of the party’s convention and denounced him. The Reform Party that emerged from that convention was a Buchananite party, and Fulani was not part of it.

[donna]

Obviously, you never admit you mistakes.