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  •  No, the clime has changed (4.00 / 2)

    Remember how Buchanon's fire and brimstone speech at the '92 convention scared the bejesus out of people and immensely aided Clinton?

    Nowadays, his extremist positions are the GOP plank.

    its hard to drink all day unless you start in the morning

    by The Exalted on Wed Aug 24, 2005 at 07:38:52 PM PDT

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    •  not quite (4.00 / 2)

      Buchanan's speech was reviled because of the tone more than the content:
      Friends, this is radical feminism. The agenda Clinton & Clinton would impose on America--abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat--that's change, all right. But it is not the kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of change America needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate in a nation that we still call God's country. . . .

      My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe. It is about what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself. And in that struggle for the soul of America, Clinton & Clinton are on the other side, and George Bush is on our side. And so, we have to come home, and stand beside him.


      You didn't hear anyone in 2004 reach these rhetorical levels.  Not even Zell.

      And arguably, that speech didn't even hurt GHWB.

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