An estimated 441,001 votes were cast for the Buchanan candidacy, about four-tenths of one percent of all votes cast. Of course, this does not take into account funds raised from non-government sources. The Buchanan candidacy suffered from a completely unfair smearing of Pat's character and distortion of his beliefs by many key figures in the Establishment Media . He would be warmly welcomed. Unlike the Constitution Party, the Reform Party does not have either a Biblical or a Constitutional standard in formulation of its policies.
Populist pragmatism is their governing doctrine.
But pragmatism doesn't work. While conservative conclusions are sometimes reached by Reform Party candidates, their premises are pragmatic rather than principled, and, accordingly, offer no fixed standard of leadership. Proceeding from principle, the Constitution Party has, for example, no doubt that Federal subsidies to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank violate the standards of sovereignty and accountability set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. That's why we would completely eliminate U.S. participation in such entities. By contrast, the Reform Party talks of reforming entities and agencies which, according to the Constitution, ought not, in the first place, be granted any authority whatsoever.