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hay rick

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Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:26 PM Jan 2017

"America First!"- Pat Buchanan, 2000.

"America First!" was Buchanan's slogan in 2000. Excerpted from the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan_presidential_campaign,_2000:

Pat Buchanan twice competed for the Republican Party presidential nomination. In 1996 he won the New Hampshire Primary, defeating Bob Dole by 3,000 votes. Ultimately, Dole received the party's nomination. In October 1999 Buchanan left the Republican Party, condemning both his former party and their Democratic Party rivals, saying: "Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a projected wetland and their natural habitat!"
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Buchanan competed in the party's primary against the Reform Party's wealthiest contender, real estate mogul Donald Trump and against Dr. John Hagelin, a physicist from Iowa. The party soon erupted into chaos as supporters of the liberal Hagelin fought members of the "Buchanan Brigade." Trump eventually dropped out of the race, citing the party's inability to unite. At various points violent confrontation between the two groups required police intervention.

During the party's convention in Long Beach, California, supporters of the two candidates split into rival factions. Both declared themselves to be the legitimate Reform Party; Buchanan was unshaped by the split, saying: "Let me say this, my friends: We are here, down here in Long Beach, to capture a nomination of the Reform Party that has been won because of what you have been doing for ten months." Eventually, both groups nominated their candidate of choice, and the question as to whom would receive the party's $12.6 million was decided, in Buchanan's favor, by a court.

In his acceptance speech, Buchanan proposed U.S. withdrawal from the IMF, the WTO, the UN, and expelling the UN from New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, soft money, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs. Buchanan also proposed a 10% tariff of foreign imports and term-limits for members of Congress.
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"America First!"- Pat Buchanan, 2000. (Original Post) hay rick Jan 2017 OP
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Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:40 PM
Jan 2017


I guess the old saying is true. If you wait long enough, everything really does come back into fashion. WTF is happening to this country?
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