by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 18, 1999
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

In recent years, Ronald Reagan’s Grand Old Party has at times seemed divided and dispirited. And unless that party can redefine its vision, reclaim its heritage and rekindle its fighting spirit, it will forfeit its claim to lead America.

With the fall of the “evil empire” a decade ago, an era ended; yet the party seems frozen in place and time. Clinging to the old certitudes and lacking the imagination to devise a new foreign policy to fit the needs of a new era, the Republican establishment has locked arms with the old foreign policy elite. The result: a failed attempt to rally the Reagan coalition, without the fire and energy of a new Reaganite agenda.