Pat Buchanan

Adapted from various sources

Considering voting for the reform party? Are you sure that you fit into Pat Buchanan's vision for the U.S.?

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.
--Pat Buchanan, 11/22/83

Patrick Buchanan's conservatism lies somewhere to the right of Ronald Reagan's, neck and neck with George Wallace. His vision of the ideal America is White and Christian, bristling to the teeth with weapons, strictly regimented, DEFINITELY drug free (except for cigarettes and alcohol), English only, with prayer, biblical teaching and creationism in the schools, and no abortions ever for any reason whatsoever. People who did not agree with these rules (in his dream world) would be deleted somehow. All Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, homosexuals, freaks and oddballs would be just edited out.

Buchanan has been on the hard right since he worked for Barry Goldwater, in 1966, supporting Richard Nixon till the bitter end of Watergate, and was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan (Nancy nixed a lot of Pat's hyperbole, saying "Those are not Ronnie's ideas" meaning they were too extreme or conservative).

He "left" politics for a while after the Nixon debacle, and has faded from recent memory. Now he's back, toning down the racist and facist rhetoric, focusing instead on valid issues. Unfortunately many people are responding to the economic and immigration issues, unaware of his strong stance on abortion, school prayer, drugs, and medieval biblical dogma. Buchanan pretends to be `outside the beltway', even though he's been an insider for 30 years.

The worst part is that Buchanan is a clever, ruthless fighter. He is adept at encapsulating complex issues into one liners and offering simplistic (though impossible) solutions, a powerful tool in the mass-hypnosis that campaigning is.

Pat Buchanan's Supporters

• Ku Klux Klan

  As of 23Feb96, the Chairman of his South Carolina Presidential Campaign was fired because of his support of David Duke (former Grand Dragon of the KKK), and attendance at National Association of Advancement of White People (NAAWP) rallies. Duke, on National Television, stated his complete support for Buchanan, saying he was `The best hope for America'. This endorsement should speak volumes for Pat Buchanan. Duke was not allowed to officially join the campaign, and Buchanan is eager to distance himself the whole thing, wanting people to not notice his dictator-potential, and instead focus on his mantra of "jobs, sovereignty, leadership..."

• Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Also on 23Feb96, Vladimir Zhirinovsky called Buchanan a `brother in arms', and told him they would be able to work together to deport U.S. and Russian Jews. Zhirinovsky is running for president of Russia. Besides promising to export the Jews, he is also promising free vodka for Russian citizens. Interfax quotes Zhirinovsky's letter to Buchanan: "You say that congress is `Israeli Occupied Territory'. We have the same situation in Russia. So, to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territory to deport this small but troublesome tribe." Does this sound familiar to anyone knowledgeable of European politics in the 1930's?

• National Association of White People

  Buchanan also fired a Florida county campaign chairwoman for being a leader of the National Association of White People and, less expeditiously, put campaign co-chairman Larry Pratt on leave following criticism for his deep connections to the racist and anti-Semitic far right.

• Violent anti-abortion terrorists

  One of Pat's 4 national co-chairman, Michael Farris, attended the "White Rose Banquet", a dinner honoring anti-abortion activists who have gone to jail for acts of violence against abortion clinics and physicians. Paul Hill, convicted of murdering a doctor and his bodyguard, received a special award.

Buchanan's Beliefs and Heros

• Buchanan has expressed admiration for Hitler, calling him courageous, and a genius! He was an admirer of Joseph McCarthy, and even Franco, the despot who tortured Spain from 1939 to 1975.
• German, Spanish, and Israeli newspapers have compared Buchanan to Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Zhirinovsky in just the last few days. Foreign press is not bound by the politeness binding ours, and also, these countries are more sensitive to racist dictators than we are here.
• Buchanan's recent book, From the Beginning, claims that the only reason we went into WWII was at the insistence of the Jews. This ludicrous assertion has pundits on both sides calling him a crackpot, and destroys his credibility at a very basic level.
• In Right from the Beginning, Buchanan refers to Spanish dictator Francisco Franco as a "Catholic savior." He called Franco, along with Chile's General Pinochet, "soldier-patriots." (syndicated column 9/17/89). Both men overthrew democracy in their countries.

My Favorite Pat Buchanan Quotes

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers; they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.
--Right from the Beginning, p. 149

Promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.
--Pat Buchanan 10/17/90