[Jack Black]

If he has all the answers, why is it that he has never been elected to any public office?

1. He is a much better writer and commentator than political candidate.

2. US Citizens do not see the Presidency as an appropriate first elected office. Thus no president Buchanan, Nader, Forbes, Perot or anyone else in this century who was not either a legislator, governor or war hero.

3. Being a good theorist and a good politician probably don't have a lot in common. I respect William Kristols columns in the Weekly Standard without wanting to vote for him.

4. Pat's biggest mistake was running. William Safire never ran for anything, and because of it he has not been target for as many arrows as PJB has. Perhaps it was his sincere passion that led him to his runs. To much passion is probably not a great characteristic for a modern political pundit.

[Brian Allen]

<< Pat's biggest mistake was running. >>

Only one of Mr Buchanan's biggest mistakes was that he joined with our political foes -- and America's -- and tore Republican President George Herbert Walker Bush to shreds, in the process becoming the "Republican" single-handedly responsible for the ensuring eight years.

Only one or two more of Mr Buchanan's many many other biggest mistakes is that since then he has has become a tarrif/tax trade Luddite -- has descended into populist totalitarianism -- and has looted the United States Treasury of Millions of Dollars of several layers of other people's confiscated wealth which, like a one-armed wall-paper-hanger -- and whilst reducing the Perot party's 8% presidential-election vote to 0.02% -- he squandered on nothing visibly more signifigant than the appeasing of his own self-will and ego-driven and alcoholic-like grandiosity.

And stuff like that.

[LowCountryJoe]

I wonder what would happen if someone ran - for president, house, or senate - their campaign on the platform of not just reforms but outright repeals of various law. If a presidential candidate just came right out and said something like: "If elected, the congress should focus on bringing me bills that seek to limit the federal government's involvement in our lives or they better make sure that they have two-thirds support, because I'll use the veto power early and often to ensure that this 'goat rodeo' doesn't get further out of hand!"