[Hermann the Cherusker]

Why did you ever not like Buchanan? Don't you realize he purposefully destroyed the Reform Party in 2000, and squandered $12 million that might have been spent by a real opponent like Perot?

[Freepdonia]

Hermann, if that was his game plan, that's another reason to like him. :-)

[Professional]

Why did you ever not like Buchanan? Don't you realize he purposefully destroyed the Reform Party in 2000, and squandered $12 million that might have been spent by a real opponent like Perot?

Ahhhh, yes, the truth about Buchanan. I see you as member since 2001. We debated that quite lively here at the time. One day, when he's dead, they'll write a book about it. Man, he went from one position to the other, without any logic, just like Kerry now. He went from 6% to a fraction of a percent, and nobody in the MSM the wiser. Buchanan, what a hoot. How Nixonian of him. Like Bush, he's a lot smarter than he gets credit for.

[Agrarian]

I'm beginning to believe more and more that you and others may be right, and that perhaps Buchanan took one for the team... How someone who could give Dole and Bush I such runs for their money in the primaries (esp. given the fact that the man had never been so much as elected dog-catcher), yet managed to self-destruct so effectively and completely in the general election of 2000 has always baffled me.

Two words in support of this theory: Ezola Foster...