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I disagree. I myself was for Buchanan. I was for him because I am strongly opposed to illegal immigration and social welfare programs for aliens without documentation here for economic and not political asylum reasons. There may have been others involved in the PJB campaign who were racists or did not want ALL immigration, or can't stand Asians or what not. I don't know if Pat's black running mate, for example, was racists.

I don't care. They (racists) don't represent me and I don't represent them neither does Buchanan. I cannot take responsibility for every stinking Buchanan supporter, nor can any Bush supporters take responsibility for every stinking Bush supporter, some who were for example the Austin 12 homosexuals who would tear down our cultural underpinnings as a nation or corrupt business leaders who have since landed in jail. Don't paint everyone who supported Buchanan as you have just done. You are looking at someone who has none of the attributes you just rattled off. Thanks for your ideas. I mean no anger toward you, just wanted to clarify your charge.

I am strongly opposed to social welfare programs, period, whether for legal, illegal or native born. Private charity is more efficient, more consistent with liberty (it's voluntary) and doesn't involve the government robbing Peter to pay Paul. As for Pat: Obviously, one is not responsible for everyone who votes for a candidate, but one is certainly responsible for those who run a campaign. He employed several staffers who were known white supremacists: Susan Lamb, for example, who was a Florida chairwoman for Buchanan, was involved with "National Association for the Advancement of White People", founded by David Duke. Vincent Bruno--one of Pat's delegates from Louisian--was David Duke's liaison to the religious right when Duke ran for Louisiana governor.

Pat has a history of making comments which are IMO contrary to the nature of liberty and individual dignity. Make up your own mind, by all means:

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."
Right from the Beginning, p. 131)

In a memo to President Nixon, Buchanan suggested that "integration of blacks and whites -- but even more so, poor and well-to-do -- is less likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual friction, as the incapable are placed consciously by government side by side with the capable." Washington Post, 1/5/92

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism." (syndicated column, 11/22/83)

In a review of a book on Hitler, Pat says:
"Those of us in childhood during the war years were introduced to Hitler only as caricature. Either he was a ranting, raving, carpet-chewing Chaplinesque buffoon -- or the anti-Christ, Satan Incarnate, a devil without human attribute who had hypnotized the German people. Such ignorance is folly. Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him. But Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

See also the page of "Radio Islam", which admiringly quotes Buchanan's anti-Israel and rants against Jews: See here. Anyone who shouts that "Free trade is the philosophy of nations on the way down", as Pat did to a group in New Hampshire, is a person who has not only no understanding of economics, but also certainly would lead the nation to ruin. No conservative, he.