"I clearly recall Buchanan's speech at the Houston GOP convention having watched it live and recoreded it on tape for future review.
I listened to it at least 3 times. This was when Pat was still a Republican and before he went off the deep end."
And now, for another viewpoint.
Buchanan speaking in prime time cost the GOP the election, and gave us Bill Clinton.
You might recall who ended up speaking after 11 PM EST that night. A man you might recall, who gave one helluva speech that NOBODY HEARD.
That man was.....RONALD REAGAN.
Sorry, putting Buchanan in the prime time speaking role that night, and relagating former President Ronald Reagan to late night TV was one of many errors the Bush Campaign made in that election cycle. As Dan Quayle accurate summed it up, it was "the worst Reelection Campaign in Modern History".
Buchanan went off the deep end that night, not later. And we got 8 years of Clinton due in no small part to PJB's megalomania.
The outpouring of emotion last month demonstrates the error in a way a poster like myself could never put into words.
Not likely. Bush LOST the election because he strayed from conservatism, lacked the fire in the belly to take on Klintoon, had mediocre advisors.
Regards, Ivan
If you think the substance of Buchanan's speech that night constituted someone going "off the deep end", one wonders why you would be opposed to Clinton's election at all. The speech was a rock-solid conservative argument for re-electing Bush.