From: mcgead@operators.its.rpi.edu (Darren McGeary)
Subject: Re: Buchanan's speech at convention
Keywords: Buchanan Rush Limbaugh
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: world,usa,na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:33:47 GMT

In article <4t!nqbl.jrs@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>Here's a copy of Buchanan's speech on the first night of the Republican 
>convention. Any spelling errors and other mistakes are mine alone.
>
>
>The presidency is also America's bully pulpit, what Mr. Truman
>called, "pre-eminently a place of moral leadership." George Bush is a
>defender of right to life, and life-long champion of the
>Judeo-Christian values and beliefs upon which this nation was built.  
  
Here is the beginning of Mr. Buchanan's oft-stated belief that only
morals that are derived from Judeo-Christian religions are worth anything.
Also his belief that the USA is a 'christian nation'.  Both beliefs are
wrong.

>
>At its top is unrestricted abortion on demand. When the
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                a lie
 

>Irish-Catholic governor of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, asked to say a
>few words, on behalf of the 25 million unborn children destroyed since
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                        no such thing

>Roe v. Wade, he was told there was no place for him at the podium of
>Bill Clinton's convention, no room at the inn.  
>
>Yet, a militant leader of the homosexual rights movement could rise
>at that convention and exult: "Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the
>most pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history." And so they do.  
  
Everytime I hear Buchanan speak, I constantly wonder to myself what
evil things homosexuals have done to him that he hates them so much.
Or could it be a case of 'Me thinks thou doth protest too much'?

>
>Bill Clinton supports school choice - but only for state-run
>schools. Parents who send their children to Christian schools, or
>Catholic schools, need not apply.  
   
How can the government give tax incentives for people to send their kids
to a religious school without it being a violation of church and state
separation.  Yet another example of churches only wanting to be separate
until it costs them money.

>
>Elect me, and you get two for the price of one, Mr. Clinton says of
>his lawyer-spouse. And what does Hillary believe? Well, Hillary
>believes that 12-year-olds should have a right to sue their parents,
>and she has compared marriage as an institution to slavery - and life
>on an Indian reservation.  
 
This thing about Hillary comparing marriage to slavery has been taken
completely out of context.  But when has that stopped Pat.

>Friends, this is radical feminism. The agenda Clinton & Clinton
>would impose on America - abortion on demand, a litmus test for the
>Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious
>schools, women in combat - that's change all right. But it is not the
>kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of change America
>needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate in a nation
>that we still call God's country.  
 
Again, the abortion on demand lie. To say that Bush doesn't have a litmus
test for the Supreme court is a lie.  Homosexual rights? Is Pat saying that
Homosexuals shouldn't have rights.  And what's wrong with women in
combat if they can do the job?
Oh, and discrimination against religious schools? Bullsh*t. Just because
the government won't give them money?

>
>George Bush was 17 when they bombed Pearl Harbor. He left his high
>school class, walked down to the recruiting office, and signed up to
>become the youngest fighter pilot in the Pacific War. And Mr. Clinton?
>When Bill Clinton's turn came in Vietnam, he sat up in a dormitory in
>Oxford, England, and figured out how to dodge the draft.  
 
This is a joke.  How can ANYONE seriously compare going to war in WWII
and being DRAFTED into the Vietnam war.  And why didn't Buchanan bring
up a certain VP who through his daddy's connections avoided Vietnam by
joining the National Guard?

>The central organizing principle of this republic is freedom. And
 
Freedom that is for white, christian, heterosexual males and non-pregnant
females.

>But, tonight, I want to talk to the 3 million Americans who voted
>for me: I will never forget you, nor the great honor you have done me.
 
3 million, huh?  That's scary. Well, take heart buchanan supporters.
Even if Pat doesn't run again in '96, I'm sure David Duke will give
it another shot.

>Yes, we disagreed with President Bush, but we stand with him for
>freedom-of-choice religious schools, and we stand with him against the
>amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing
>in law as married men and women.  
 
1)There already is freedom-of-choice for religious schools
2)There's the gay thing again? He's starting to make me wonder if he's
  hiding something.

>
>We stand with President Bush for right to life, and for voluntary
>prayer in the public schools 
  
There already is voluntary prayer in schools.  No one is trying to
stop it.  Oh!!! He probably meant SCHOOL-SANCTIONED voluntary prayer. :)

>My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It
>is about who we are. It is about what we believe, it is about what we
                                          ^^^^^^^
    As long as we believe in a christian god.

>stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in our
  

>magnificent Southern mansion, in a town called Fitzgerald.  
  
Any relation to Jennifer Fitzgerald?

>My friends, even in tough times, these people are with us. They
>don't read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke, but they came from the same
>schoolyards and playgrounds and towns as we did. They share our
>beliefs and convictions, our hopes and our dreams. They are the
>conservatives of the heart. They are our people. And, we need to
>reconnect with them. We need to let them know we know they're hurting.
>They don't expect miracles, but they need to know we care.  
  
We care as long as you are a white,christian,heterosexual male or
non-pregnant female.

>God bless you, and God bless America. 
  
Of course, only if you are a white,christian,heterosexual male or
non-pregnant female.

>
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