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Perennial right-wing candidate Pat Buchanan is speaking today at the Institute of Politics, and in preparation for his visit, I decided to check out his campaign website. Not knowing the website's name, I decided to take a few guesses--and guessed wrong. Below is an actual account of what transpired. (If you don't believe me, try it yourself...
www.buchanan2000.com: I started here because, well, it seemed like a natural name for the campaign website. It seems the anti-Buchananites got there first, though, since I was greeted with an ominous red-and-blue "Whose populism is it anyway?" and a cute cartoon of Buchanan holding a baseball bat with a nail in it standing behind a barbed-wire-protected border. The rest of the site listed controversial Buchanan statements on civil rights, Jews, women, etc. Clearly not something the campaign would have put together...
www.patbuchanan.com: This was the next stop. Yet the domain squatters got here too--the website redirected me to www.iguanatechnologies.com, which I assume is unaffiliated with Buchanan, unless he has more on iguanas in his platform than I knew about. Are Internet technologies out for candidates, and iguana technologies in? Strangely, Iguana Technologies' website consists solely of two periods and a paragraph tag, saying little about their mission or what bizarre technical devices they might have constructed out of iguanas. I decided to move...
...G.O.P. convention, TV viewers watch Pat Buchanan declare "a religious war" in America. Moderates complain the right has hijacked the party...
Still, the Ventura departure has consequences. It's all but impossible for Donald Trump to seek the party's nomination, clearing the way for Pat Buchanan--unless the mercurial Perot should get in. A Buchanan candidacy could drain votes from the G.O.P. in the fall, especially if the Republicans nominate JOHN MCCAIN, whom many on the right may find unacceptable. Reform still comes with a prize of ballot access and $12.6 million in federal matching funds...