November 7th, 2006
by Patrick J. Buchanan – November 7, 2006
“Well, the American people have spoken, and in his own good time, Franklin will tell us what they have said.” So one wag explained the Democratic landslide that buried the Hoover Republicans in 1932. The country was voting against three years of Depression and the president and party it held responsible. But what was it voting for? FDR supplied the answer: a New Deal. All week, politicians and pundits will be putting their spin on the election returns, but there is a more certain way to know what Americans are voting for and voting against. Which issues, in the tight races, did the candidates campaign on, and what issues did they consciously seek to avoid?…
November 7th, 2006
by David Puente – ABC News
Although Buchanan didn’t point fingers at Haggard, he conceded that the political disillusionment may drive a wedge between religion and politics for the evangelicals and fundamentalists who have come to see the political and the religious as one and the same. Buchanan said there’s some validity to the belief some conservative Christians feel that they have come too close too power and that power corrupts. Some evangelicals, Buchanan said, may even consider withdrawing from the political arena, returning to the time before the 1970s and ’80s, and take an example from the Catholic Church, where priests stay out of politics. So what will happen in today’s midterm elections? In addition to fully expecting trouble around the country with voting machines, Buchanan said, “the Democrats will take the House….
November 7th, 2006
United Press International – November 7, 2006
Political activist Pat Buchanan said conservative Christians’ displeasure with Republicans will cost the GOP control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Buchanan, a conservative political commentator, made the prediction in an interview with “Exclusiva,” an ABC News Hispanic news program, ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections and said he himself is somewhat disillusioned with the Republican Party. “There’s the spending orgy, the arrogance of power, for me,” Buchanan said. “The war in Iraq, failure to protect our border, hurting the working class in Ohio, for example, the list goes on and on. We’re more dissatisfied with the Republican Party than we’ve ever been..
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