No reason to slander Buchanan. I don't know him personally but people who I know and trust do know him and like him. And Buchanan wrote a wonderful book in his "Decline of the West". Read it if you haven't - it's a conservative classic right up there with Witness and God and Man at Yale. It's kind of hard not to be negative with all the crap coming down from Bush isn't it? I mean he expands the welfare state, federalizes education, promotes illegal immigration, limits my free speech, etc., etc. He did lower taxes (but not spending) and he did sign the partial-birth abortion bill. I give him credit for that.
Don't mean to seem whiny or shallow, but Bush is not a conservative. In my heart, I know he's wrong. (Recognize that parody of a AUH2O campaign slogan - tell's you I'm an old fart with a long memory)
Regards.