Word: buchananism
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...other year, Warren Beatty running for president would be marginally relevant news. People would laugh, brush it aside, and reinitiate their criticism of Pat Buchanan. But Warren, clever little devil that he is, waited until this year to throw his hat into the ring. Next year's presidential race looked like it was going to be the most thuddingly boring event in United States electoral history since--well, the last presidential election. Poor Al Gore nor George W. Bush. They're both qualified, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore; they don't have nearly enough scandal...
...Buchanan has set a date for the invasion. After months of massing his troops at the border, CNN reports that the man with mixed feelings about WWII has scheduled a press conference for October 25 to announce (finally!) that he?s joining the Reform party and gunning for its presidential nomination. That the announcement will be made in the D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Va., pretty much sums up his appeal ?- he?s a political outsider who?s not too far outside and a political commentator who?s smart enough to sound halfway credible and wacky enough to appeal...
...quite probably make the Reform party stand up and decide what it wants to be. Jesse Ventura has sketched out a libertarianism on social issues (and an internationalism on trade issues) that a Buchanan candidacy would instantly erase. Buchanan's followers are rabidly pro-life and anti-foreigner and not disinclined to scan the skies for black helicopters and other imaginary craft. They also turn out at the polls ? Buchanan could expect to clear the 5 percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have...
...credible of the crop of celebrity political newcomers due to his decades of business leadership ? saw his unfavorable ratings climb to 58 percent immediately after he announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Reform party members polled were over 50 percent more likely to choose controversial conservative Pat Buchanan over the coiffed casino king...
Bush provided fresh contrasts to McCain last week. While McCain blasted fellow Republican Pat Buchanan for arguing that America did not have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role...