Pat Buchanan Quotes
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
Buchanan, Patrick J. Interview on The Greatest Comeback. 2014.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
Agnew had to resign as vice president when he was convicted to taking bribes and committing fraud as the Governor of Maryland. Some find Gold's analogy difficult to fathom.
One of the reasons that Reagan was so popular and effective was the he was positive and civil in his public and political relations. Although he was clearly conservative, he worked very well with the Democrats in Congress and in the state. The Republican Party after Reagan had become totally negative and offered nothing positive and specific. Lack of comity and much nastiness had become the Republican legislative style and on Radio and TV the nastiness rivaled that of McCarthyism. Conservatives like Graham who were civil and polite to Democrats and everyone else, were actually castigated and attacked by other Republican leaders and spokespeople.
The Republican party had lurched so far to the right, that a Republican like Reagan could never win the nomination even though he could likely win a national election.
He and many ultra conservatives believe that given a choice between a moderate Republican and a Democrat, the Democrat will win because the conservative wing of the party will never by enthusiastic about a moderate candidate. The moderate Republicans argue that Republicans are a minority party and especially so when it comes to electoral votes. To win a Republican must get Independent and Moderate Democrat votes. A very conservative candidate will never be able to do that.
Bush, himself a born-again Christian, made religion in general and fundamentalist Christian values in particular, a major driver of policy making in his administration, subjugating science, medicine, research and social policy to the prevailing views of the evangelical and other fundamentalist Christians. He also claimed that God spoke though him as President. See {589627}.
Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.
