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tom tomorrow had a good cartoon wondering about
the buchanan-fulani hook-up. slate has a good archive of tomorrow's
hilarious cartoons. some of the funniest are on the lewinsky
scandal. in one, a clinton lawyer says "it isn't sex if it involves
curiously strong peppermints." how about tommorrow for a third party
candidate?
the following is a letter from today's L.A.
TIMES, by my cousin, a former editor of the New York POST:
Reform Party
In "Dark
Days for the Reform Party" (editorial, Feb. 15), The
Times wondered
"what a Buchanan-Fulani ticket would stand for?"
I'm sorry to
spoil the fun, but there won't be a Buchanan-Fulani
ticket. Pat Buchanan
has said repeatedly that his running mate,
were he to gain the Reform
Party nomination, would be pro-life.
Lenora Fulani is pro-choice. At the
press conference where she
endorsed Buchanan for president, Fulani made
clear that she saw
no role for herself as Pat's running mate.
But it shouldn't be so difficult to figure what a ticket led
by
Buchanan would stand for. It will stand for a halt to the trade
deals
that strip away American industrial jobs and cede
decision-making
to unelected global bureaucrats. It will stand for
immigration reform
that gives the huge wave of recent immigrants a time
to settle in and
assimilate. It will stand for an end to the mindless
military
interventions, like the bombing of Serbia.
It will
stand for the end to racial quotas and set-asides and an
end to the
assault on the unborn. It will stand for campaign finance
reform. Above
all, it will stand for giving Americans a real choice
on the many vital
issues for which the two major parties are carbon
copies of one another.
SCOTT McCONNELL
Senior Policy Advisor
Buchanan Reform 2000
Vienna, Va.
(I am in no way
responsible for my relatives. What's weird, for those from outside the U.S.
who don't know, is that Lenora Fulani is a self-described
"Marxist." Maybe her alliance with Buchanan will legitimate my
views with my East Coast relatives. I doubt it.)
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