ZOT! Can there be a serious challenge to Bush in the GOP primaries?

John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach ^ | november 29, 2003 | john buchanan

[Republican Challenger]

I am a nationally published journalist who has been drafted to challenge George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential primaries, beginning in New Hampshire on January 27. My aim is to prompt legitimate debate and genuine new ideas, but I start with a question:

HAS GEORGE W. BUSH BETRAYED TRADITIONAL GOP VALUES?

He has failed in his promise to control spending. Nondefense spending has skyrocketed under Bush. The Congressional Budget Office reported that for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, nondefense spending rose 7% – nearly double the 4% discretionary spending caps Bush promised to enforce (Source: Washington Times). Since Bush took office, nondefense spending has leapt 13% -- 21% if spending on the war on terrorism is included. “My impression of Bush,” says Chris Edwards, director of fiscal policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, “is that I’ve never seen him give a speech in which he says government is too big and we need to cut costs.”

He has failed in his promise to keep America strong. Under Bush, U.S. foreign policy and international esteem have reached historic lows. After spending hundreds of billions of dollars since 9/11, the Bush administration has failed to catch Osama bin Laden, failed to find Saddam Hussein, failed to defeat Al Qaeda, and failed to stabilize Iraq after an invasion that his own Pentagon policy adviser, Richard Perle, now admits was “illegal.” As a result, the geopolitical balance of power has been jolted, traditional allies have been severely alienated, and as a result, the European Union – led by Great Britain – is now conducting secret talks about the formation of an EU military force outside NATO.

He has failed in his promise to be a “compassionate conservative.” Perhaps never before has a U.S. President so divided the country, according to a recent Time cover story. Despite Bush’s promise to be “a uniter, not a divider,” he has turned Republican against Democrat, rich against poor, Christian against Muslim. He has eroded our civil liberties and Constitutional rights in the name of “national security” and aided and abetted a corporate elite class in the theft of the Republican Party and the two-century-old values that made it the Party of Lincoln. “Corporations have been enthroned,” Lincoln said presciently before he died. “…An era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people…until wealth is aggregated in a few hands…and the Republic is destroyed.” Under Bush, Lincoln’s ominous – and accurate – prediction might find its final manifestation unless he and the “neo-con” corporate juggernaut are stopped.

DO YOU AGREE? Please let me know your thoughts. There will be more to come from me, including a detailed platform and agenda for ending the corporate reign in this country, shrinking the federal bureaucracy, and restoring Constitutional freedoms to pre-9/11 levels. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your comments and questions.

[stands2reason]

Please understand that I am not running "against" George Bush.

Maybe if you say it a few more times we'll believe it.

[Ex-Dem]

I'm betting that GFY doesn't stand for Good For You :).

[Torie]

I just picked the most appropriate color. Sort of a cross between red and yellow.

[CommandoFrank]

I just checked out your web site... and the answers to your four questions are no, no, no and no. I quess that means our brief relationship is over.

Bye bye, ta ta...

[Republican Challenger]

You are incorrect, sir, and I am in personal possession, as is the New Hampshire Gazette, of 300 pages of US government documents that prove my reporting and, in fact, discredit Mr. Conason. The culprit was AP, which badly misreported the story and sent it around the world without apology. I am still at war with them over the facts and their underlying truth, and I will not rest until the facts have been publicly established. Therefore, I trust you will be open-minded in the days ahead.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, I admit "Buchanan For President" sounds kinda catchy, doesn't it?!

[EllaMinnow]

Sort of a cross between red and yellow.

Bears repeating.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm voting in the GOP caucuses in Michigan.

Why should I vote for YOU? What is your platform. Specifically.

1. Do you think there is too little, the right amount, or too much gun control? What changed in gun laws, if any, would you make as president.

2. What would your plans be on Social Security and medicare.

3. What is your view on the Patriot Act

4. What role should the UN have in international affairs.

5. What is your view on the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Law, and what changed if any would you make.

6. What changed from Bush would you have in foreign policy?

If you want my vote, earn it.

[Slings and Arrows]

OK, maybe he is a creative synthesis of a Green and a Paleo, sort of like a papaya (green on the outside, and orange on the inside). You know, until you made that post I was in favor of genetically-modified foods! Now I'm going to have nightmares about a Ralph Nader-Pat Buchanan hybrid stalking the Produce Department at Food Lion!

[Peace will be here soon]

I have three questions for you, sir. Where do you stand on the issue of abortion ? And how would you address the illegal immigration problem this country is facing? And finally , do you support the H1B and L1 visa programs ?

[gooleyman]

Some political scientists and journalists believe the party will virtually implode if we win big next fall across the board and strengthen the mandate in the Senate

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So why then would you want to help them by running against George Bush. I re-remind you, it was Pat Buchanan (sp?) who gave the Dems the idea to use the "read my lips" ammo. And it was one of the Democrats who first used Willie Horton against Dukakis.

If the RAT party is about to implode, Shut up and enjoy it. I sure will.

Come back in 2008 and beat the crap out of Hellary. That's assuming you're for real. You say the same things the DemocRATS say. If it walks like a, talks like a, quacks like a, then it is a...

[Dan from Michigan]

7. What role should the feds have in Education.

[Republican Challenger]

Since when are new ideas ludicrous? At one point, the US and the Constitution were new ideas. Remember?

[jwalsh07]

My references include former Secretary of Defense William Cohen

Wonderful, now if you can add Madeline Halfbright and Sandy Berger you will have managed to win the three stooges to your side.

[Cultural Jihad]

Oh, so you're making a quixotic run just to make your view points better known, and be given a public forum in which to express them. An opportunity that running for President would give you, an opportunity denied in your current position.

There ought to be a law against greedy liberal journalists running for office just to sell their magazine articles to corporate interests!

[cksharks]

NO!!!!!

[woerm]

At this juncture,
absent *large* sums of cash,

I doubt anyone could mount a cognizant, functional challenge.

I have been disgusted with the TSA gestapo, the Patriot act in general and George the Duce's cut and run on the Assualt weapons ban,

folks I talk to are disgusted by the spending, the regulation mills not stopping and the medi-scare boondogle.

I'm hacked that the 'energy bill' was packed with pork and no substantive methods to improve our long term energy indendence prospects.

Right now I think the only prospect to improvement is to fire all the dimwits that claim to be republican and voted to the Patriot act TSA gestapo and have allowed all the rino's to run the national party in Congress.

I'm about to run against my misrep since he couldn't find time to read the patriot act but didn't have problem with the house shipping the 'plastic gun ban' off to the senate.

As far as I am concerned the republic may have to be saved in congress since the folks at 1600 penzy just don't seem to care .

yes I sent a letter stating as much to George the duce via a misrep that meets w/ him regulary, but he was to busy campaining for $ to answer.

Good luck,
If you are running against George the duce you will need it.

He good, very good at what he does.

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