WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Dear Brigade, "When Foster finished her remarks, Buchanan, grinning, moved to the microphone and snapped: "And the press says I'm hard core...." Brigade, when you read the following column it is important to remember that when the press says the Reform Party has "split", it is not at 50-50 split. Only about 30 NatCom members walked out of the NatCom Meeting -- they were members of the Crew. The Fulani-Verney-Hagelin Convention was filled with Natural Law Party members -- NOT REFORMERS. Germond and Witcover are correct. Ezola Foster is (and has been) with PJB on our issues -- 100% with us. Gore-Clinton have much to worry about. But so do Bush-Bush. Their greatest fear is that all Americans -- no matter what their background -- will hear the message of Buchanan-Foster. And they will. FTC-Linda ------------------- CongressDaily - National Journal 08-14-2000 Pat's Party: Bad News For Al Gore? Jack Germond and Jules Witcover LONG BEACH- What happened here at the Reform Party convention is not the best of news for the Democrats gathered for their own convention up the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles. With Pat Buchanan and his militant "brigades" storming the barricades of Ross Perot's old party and pulling off a bloodless but divisive coup d'etat, Vice President Al Gore probably has more to worry about from a third-party threat now than Republican nominee George W. Bush does. The Reform Party convention was such a fiasco that Buchanan, a former Republican, stands far less chance of eroding the Bush vote. Green Party nominee Ralph Nader, by contrast, may make inroads into Gore's liberal support. The remnants of the old Perot forces, still focused on such traditional reform issues as trade, overblown government, and campaign finance law, split off and nominated their own candidate, physicist John Hagelin, maintaining that they are the real Reform Party. They are asking the Federal Election Committee to give their nominee, not Buchanan, the $12.6 million federal subsidy that's in play because Perot won 8 percent of the popular vote in 1996. But even if Buchanan gets the money-a prime reason he abandoned the GOP-the Reform Party is now less a vehicle for effective political protest because of what his foes call, not unreasonably, his hijacking. With Perot himself not lifting a finger to defend his party, only a miracle will hold the splintered party together until Election Day. Buchanan, in his zeal to put his ultraconservative stamp on the party-stressing such social issues as abortion, school prayer, and the like-has essentially driven a stake into the heart of what Perot set out to build in 1992. Buchanan is so intent on remaking the party in his own image that he even picked an ideological clone as his running mate. Instead of throwing a bone to those old party members who reluctantly accepted his candidacy-choosing someone known for his or her support of Perot-like reformist issues-he jammed Buchananism down their throats. His choice, 62-year-old Ezola Foster, who would be the first black woman on a "major party" national ticket, as he straight- facedly put it, marches lockstep with him on his social agenda. She was a co-chairman of his campaign for the GOP nomination last year and abandoned her old party as he began his pursuit of the Reform nomination. She actively supported California's Proposition 187, which would have denied public schooling for children of illegal immigrants. In accepting Buchanan's offer to be his running mate, she vowed to combat "illegal immigration and open borders," observing that "we want to continue to be compassionate, but we want to stop being stupid." When Foster finished her remarks, Buchanan, grinning, moved to the microphone and snapped: "And the press says I'm hard core." Foster's selection was only one step Buchanan took to underscore that the Reform Party under him will focus on the so- called social issues, not the economic and political changes that Perot pressed for in high-water days. Rather than pushing his most dogmatic views on the Reform Party platform, he simply issued a "statement of personal belief," declaring that "social and moral decline and cultural decadence go hand in hand with the death of republics." He attacked all forms of abortion and "rampant homosexuality," and vowed as President to appoint only anti-abortion Justices to the Supreme Court, to end all federal financial support for abortions and fetal tissue research, and to allow no special rights for gays and keep them out of the military. In his acceptance speech to what he called "the last red-meat convention in America," he served up plenty of his own brand. His anti-abortion views received equal billing with his protectionist call against having working families "sacrificed to the gods of the global economy." In some limited ways, he did line up with the old Reform Party agenda, as in vowing to "outlaw the glorified bribery they call 'soft money' " and to impose term limits on every member of Congress and federal judge. But with a characteristic Buchanan touch: "If eight years was enough for George Washington and Ronald Reagan, it is long enough for Teddy Kennedy and Barney Frank." Whether these shared views are enough to keep some old Perot supporters in step with the "Buchanan brigades" is questionable. The new leader dubbed his campaign "the French Foreign Legion of American politics," saying "We don't care what party you come from, where you've been, or who you are running away from." And he welcomed everybody who is "for America first, American sovereignty, traditional values, faith and family and country." Buchanan will need all the recruits he can get if he is to meet his immediate objective of reaching 15 percent in the polls and qualifying for the fall's presidential debates-a highly unlikely prospect. In what is surely an unintentional consequence of his takeover of the Reform Party, George W. Bush may be breathing a bit easier. At the same time, Al Gore must keep watching Ralph Nader over his shoulder, especially in California, where Nader could give Bush a shot at this critical state. http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/congressdaily -------- end -------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T H E I N T E R N E T B R I G A D E Linda Muller - WebMaster Post Office Box 650266, Potomac Falls, Virginia 20165 Email: http://www.buchanan.org/form-contact.html Web: http://www.buchanan.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have You O F F I C I A L L Y E N L I S T E D Yet? http://www.buchanan.org/form-enlistment.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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