Pat Buchanan Quotes
He [George H. W. Bush] is a globalist and we are nationalists.
Buchanan was the first major Republican to advocate isolationism since that was the backbone of Republican Party ideology in the decades before WWII. This was a large reversal from the Internationalism and Manifest Destiny of Republicans under Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. After Roosevelt’s great leadership making the United States the preeminent power in the World, the Republicans also espoused that direction and even took it further than the Democrats. But Buchanan was advocating another Republican Flip Flop, and while he found little support from Republican Party regulars, he fired up a small but intense group—most;y white males who were not college graduates. These Buchanan supporters became the nucleus of the Tea Party that would come to prominence 20 years later.
Campaign Speech Republican Presidential Primary Campaign 1992
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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.
