-Caveat Lector- Dear Brigade, Just in case you missed the live chat with Pat today, here are the Q&A, FYI. GO PAT GO!!!!!!!!!!! Linda -------------------------------------- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM ABCNEWS.COM: LIVE CHAT WITH PAT BUCHANAN ABC NEWS - http://www.abcnews.com September 17, 1999 ----------------------------------- Moderator at 2:00pm ET Mr. Buchanan, welcome to the chat. We have hundreds of questions for your from our online users. Let's begin … ----------------------------------- Tony D. Cochren from [38.27.64.6], at 2:01pm ET Mr. Buchanan, You have been a standard bearer for the Republican Party, as well as a great, and loyal stateman who has served his party and country a long time. Why would you want to abandon the GOP and possibly allow the democratci nominee the chance to be President as Perot did for Clinton in 1992? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:02pm ET The Republican establishment in Washington has abandoned us on issues from the appeasement of communist China to supporting Clinton's unconstitutional war in Kosovo to the Clinton/Gore support of open-borders immigration, the Republican establishment is in total agreement with Clinton and Gore. We need at least one candidate and one party that would give Americans a real choice of destinies in the year 2000. ----------------------------------- Joey Witt from [209.246.133.100], at 2:03pm ET Mr. Buchanan, I'll follow you where ever you go but I have just one question... Why the reform party? Wouldn't the American Tax Payer's Party be a better fit? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:03pm ET I have enormous respect for the principaled patriots of the American Taxpayer Party but the Reform Party is a vehicle that 19 million Americans at one point followed, and it is a much more potentially successful vehicle to take one to the Presidency. Finally, the Taxpayers Party already has a nominee. ----------------------------------- Carol Marks from [199.93.166.66], at 2:04pm ET Isn't the greater good served by electing the Republican that can win, rather than siphoning votes from him, as happened to George Bush? I admire you but want the liberals out. ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:05pm ET We both want the liberals out. We both want Clinton and Gore gone. But we want something better for America in the new century than an establishment Republican Party whose beliefs on issues of deep concern to me are virtually identical to those of Clinton and Gore. ----------------------------------- Z from [146.142.92.30], at 2:05pm ET I've always viewed the Reform Party as a group of political misfits who were incompatible with either of the two major parties. Asside from its renegade mentality, does the Reform Party have any core beliefs on issues? If so, how well do they coincide with yours? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:06pm ET On protecting U.S. jobs and our industrial base, on keeping Americans out of foreign wars that are none of our business, on a new immigration policy that will cut back legal immigration to 250,000 a year and enable us to repair the Melting Pot, I agree entirely with most of the Reform Party. As for their being "misfits" people have called me the same thing. ----------------------------------- Gene Hoskins from [204.134.208.33], at 2:07pm ET Why not try to change the Republican Party from within? This decision seems to be political suicide for both the Republican nominee and you? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:09pm ET The truth is Gene, we have changed the Republican party at the grass roots, it is anti-NAFTA, anti-GATT, against the apeasement of communist China with special trade privleges and against Clinton's undeclared wars. The problem is the Republican establishment is not influenced by the party platform or the party rank and file. And then you gotta make a decision: how can I support a Republican hierarchy when it wishes to take America in a direction I believe my country must not go? ----------------------------------- Mike from [204.202.132.11], at 2:09pm ET Just tell us yes or no: will you leave the GOP and run for president on the Reform ticket? Please give us a straight answer. ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:10pm ET The straight answer is: I have not decided and will not for at least a month. There are too many potential barricades and roadblocks being thrown up already in our path for me to decide now. ----------------------------------- Tom Rainwater from [205.138.140.170], at 2:11pm ET Mr. Buchanan, is it possible that the integrity of the office of the president can be restored? How can that be accomplished? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:11pm ET Remove Bill Clinton. ----------------------------------- Mark Wasson from [63.72.184.67], at 2:12pm ET Are you concerned aboout the infringement of the 4th Amendment by law enforcement agencies? As President, what would you do to try and protect the rights of Americans against unreasonable search and sezuire? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:13pm ET Well I'm a devout believer in the whole bill of rights, and that includes the 4th Amendment as well as the 1st Amendment and the 2nd Amendment and as President I would take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and I will do that. Rely upon it. ----------------------------------- Abel Sanchez from [204.134.101.209], at 2:13pm ET Mr. Buchanan, I applaud your effort to seek the presidency via a 3rd party but do you really believe that a 3rd party canidate has or will ever have a chance to win the White House? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:14pm ET I would not and will not seek the nomination of the Reform Party unless I believe there is a real chance of winning the White House in the year 2000. ----------------------------------- Robert M. Simon from [209.240.200.125], at 2:14pm ET Would you consider a conservative woman,black,hispanic or Jew for a vice- presidential partner? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:14pm ET Any or all of the above, as long as he or she is committed to our vision for America. ----------------------------------- Michael Sutliff from [166.90.226.122], at 2:15pm ET I voted for you the last time you ran. How would you make us more competitive globally if you oppose NAFTA? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:17pm ET NAFTA does not make us more competitive globally, it has hemorraghed thousands of our factories down to Mexico and hundreds of thousands of our jobs. What America needs are the lowest tax rates in the western industrial world and sweeping deregulation, especially of small business, at the federal level and a trade policy that keeps our factories here in the United States and encourages foreign countries to place their new factories here in the United States. That's what economic patriotism is all about. Read my book "The Great Betrayal" as well as my new book "A Republic, Not An Empire". ----------------------------------- scb from [24.48.88.3], at 2:17pm ET Mr. Buchanan If you are elected President, what would be your first act as President on Jan. 20, 2001? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:18pm ET I would turn to Mr. Clinton on the inaugural stand and say "Sir, you have the right to remain silent". ----------------------------------- Mike from [206.183.149.173], at 2:18pm ET The VA has lost $40 Million in funding. What are you going to do for we vets, who have done so much for America? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:19pm ET America's contract with its heros of all wars will be honored to the letter and honored with a graciousness, compassion and charity our men and women in uniform deserve. ----------------------------------- Tom Hurley from [209.244.213.68], at 2:19pm ET Mr. Buchanan, in the past you have indicated that the Republican platform must maintain a solid pro-life stance rather than attempting to ignore the abortion issue, so what is your justification for considering a move to the Reform Party, whose platform already ignores the abortion issue? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:21pm ET When the Buchanan Brigades insisted that the Reagan plank on right to life be kept in the Republican platform in 1996, the Republican ticket declared that it had not even read the platform. Platforms are not enough. We need a genuine pro-life president, not a trimmer and not an ex-pro-lifer, like Mr. Gore, who has become militantly pro-abortion. ----------------------------------- Dan Roberts from [198.234.157.10], at 2:21pm ET Do you have any comments about the departure of Bob Adams, your communications director, today from your Presidential campaign? He was quoted as saying, "I'm a Republican." ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:22pm ET Goodbye Bob and good luck. ----------------------------------- Troy Vander Waal from [205.213.130.112], at 2:22pm ET Mr Bucanan have you thought about a potential running mate if you go reform? Will he have to agree with you on abortion? what about the speculation over Jimmy Hoffa, Alan Keyes or James Trafican? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:23pm ET It is far, far too premature to even be thinking about a running mate on the Reform Party ticket when I have not yet left the Republican Party or the run for the Republican nomination. ----------------------------------- MSW from [165.224.20.225], at 2:23pm ET What potential roadblocks and barricades are in your path that prevent you from making your decision to go full steam for the Reform Party nomination? Is Jesse Ventura one of those barricades/road blocks? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:25pm ET Well, according to Bob Novak the Republican establishment has been in touch with Governor Ventura to find a way to block me from winning the Reform Party nomination. Now that they have fixed the Republican Party nomination, I guess they wanna finish the job. This clearly is an impediment and a barricade that we would have to overcome if we declared for the Reform Party nomination. ----------------------------------- Brian from [206.53.245.208], at 2:25pm ET What is your basic economic program for the country if you were elected President? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:28pm ET Basically it would consist of several parts: Tax cuts. A shift of the tax burden off of small businesses and workers and savers and onto the trans-national corporations and their foreign goods which are being shipped into the United States free of charge. Secondly end the regulatory reign of terror and roll back regulations on the federal level. Third, a radical downsizing of the federal government and a shift of power back to the states, the people and their private institutions. Lastly, a sound money policy at the Federal Reserve. ----------------------------------- Henry Rickman from [205.188.197.158], at 2:28pm ET Pat are you going to reach out more to people like me who are in the AFL- CIO and other union people? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:30pm ET One of the great tragedies of recent decades has been the steady loss of good, high-paying industrial and manufacturing jobs. They are being exported from America because of trade and tarriff policies that are neither in the interest of the American nation nor of the American worker. Those policies will be turned upside down and we will have a new economic policy that puts American workers, families and our industrial independence and soviergnty before all else. ----------------------------------- Jimmy Conner from [152.163.194.183], at 2:30pm ET Pat: I have been a Buchanan loyalist but feel George W. is our answer to keeping control of Congress. Don't you agree? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:31pm ET In truth, a third party Buchanan run for the Presidency would dramatically increase turnout among Conservatives, Populists and Traditionalists and thus would enhance dramatically the probability that Congress would be much more conservative in 2001. ----------------------------------- Gary Fisher from [192.112.63.67], at 2:31pm ET Gov. Ventura from MN has said that you may not be a good fit for the Reform Party. Don't you need to win the support of the Reform delegates just as you would have to running as a Republican? What makes you believe you can win over the Reform delegates with your more conservative views? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:32pm ET There are no certainties but we do believe we would have a tremendous chance to win all this and that is why you hear the decibel count rising in St. Paul. ----------------------------------- Moderator at 2:33pm ET Thanks for your time today. Any closing comments? ----------------------------------- Pat Buchanan at 2:35pm ET You may have read some of the viscious and scurrilous attacks on my new book "A Republic, Not An Empire". Do not believe them. Buy, or borrow, the book and see for yourself. Don't let the smear artists frighten you away. This book is a formula for a new foreign policy that puts America first and is rooted in the oldest traditions and highest values of our splendid republic. 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