From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Pat Buchanan and the decadence of the republican party
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:52:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.bush
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

1ad@e260-3g.berkeley.edu (Eric van Bezooijen) writes:
:pvanmeur@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Pim van Meurs) writes:
:>The issue is freedom he says but at the same time these wacko right
:>wingers want to impose their religious believes upon us. Prayer in
:>schools, wives in the kitchen and every sunday in church. Freedom my
:>ass, Pat Bucanan is a good example of the right wing hypocrisy.
:
:Yup.  Truly amazing how 3 million people voted for this jerk. It shows
:you that the average American doesn't want to face the fact that we are 
:falling apart, they would rather follow leaders who project the illusion 
:that everything is fine, as opposed to actually having a healthy nation.
	Can you say "protest vote"? Many in the primary voted for
Buchanan to "send a message" to George that they are disappointed in
him and how he has surrendered many Republican principles.

:>Since he was allowed to give one of the key speeches, does this mean
:>that the republican party has sunk to its deepest depths of giving
:>in to the bible swingers, the rascists who believe that Mexico is
:>the cause of all evil and want to build a wall to keep them out. 
:
:Yes, the Republicans are losing miserably.  They now fall back on their
:alternate strategy : Please everyone.  This means being pro-life and 
:pro-choice, supporting the ultra-conservative factions, and generally
:getting nothing accomplished along the way.
	I beg to differ. He did run for the nomination after all. They
let Jerry Brown speak because he was the "last survivor" in the
primaries. Of course it was a lot easier to get Pat to talk since he
would now throw his support to Bush; as opposed to Jerry holding out
until the very end to throw his support to Clinton.

>BTW, did you notice how over and over again, Bush and Ray-gun were
>given credit for "all the great things they did in the eighties"
>(which of course was all done on borrowed money).  Giving Ray-gun
>and Bush credit for the fall of Communism is like giving them credit
>for Halley's comet returning during their rule !  I believe Pat Buchanan
>even praised Ray-gun's Star Wars program, which is the biggest pipe-dream
>pork barrel project imaginable !
	Like taking credit for Halley's Comet returning??? I'm sorry.
You can't say communism ebbs and flows like the tide. You wouldn't
believe anyone in 1980 if they told you that the Berlin Wall was going to fall
in 1990. How hopeful were you that the Berlin Wall was going to fall
after Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!" that it was
going to happen in less than 10 years? How surprised were you when the
Berlin Wall actually fell?
	Communism falling was NOT strictly fate. Communism's demise has
been influenced by what Reagan and Bush did since 1980. Whether or not you
believe in SDI/Star Wars, military technology in the US is among the
best if not THE best in the world, and SDI helped spur on research in
stealth technology, anti-ballistic missile systems, and so on.
	The falling of Communism is not a "freak" of nature. Duke did
not defeat UNLV in 1991 because there was a full moon out. You ought to
give credit where it is due: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail
Gorbechev, George Bush, and Boris Yeltsin ... the key diplomats who
helped dismantle the Communist machine in Europe and turn back the
threat of nuclear war between the superpowers. A system of government
doesn't just fall on its own; the Jewish people had to march around the
walls of Jericho before the walls came down!


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Emil Thomas Chuck		DUKE BLUE DEVILS: 1992 ACC CHAMPIONS!
Biomedical Engineer 1993	1992 EAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONS!!
Duke University, Durham, NC	AND 1992 NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
August 31, 1992 - May 16, 1993	Duke football? What's that?
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