By Patrick J. Buchanan

Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., and were striding forward toward victory.

They had erased the eight-point lead had opened up in Denver and watched as one blue state after another moved into the toss-up category.

That is ancient history now.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is it fair that businessmen who fail in neighborhood stores have to close shop and often sell their homes, while Wall Street titans are spared the consequences of monumental stupidity and greed?

No, it is not fair. Yet, Treasury’s Hank Paulson may be right. To save the sheep who might have been wiped out in a general financial panic, we may have to save the pigs.

Life is unfair, said JFK.

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