I think Pat Buchanan should run as the "America First" candidate

[WI_DEM]

in '08. One poll, I think it was Rasmussen, said that in a general election if a candidate ran on a platform of keeping illegal aliens out of this country that they would come in second with the GOP running a poor third! and the Democrats winning. I watched Pat B. on some talk show the other day and he is among the most passionate about building a wall across the border, ect. and while I disagree 100% with him--his presence on such a ticket, I think, would hurt the Republicans tremendously.

[BuyingThyme]

1. I like to keep the Perot party around just for laughs.

[kurth]

2. "There is a final reason I support George W. Bush.

A presidential election is a Hatfield-McCoy thing, a tribal affair. No matter the quarrels inside the family, when the shooting starts, you come home to your own."
- Patrick J. Buchanan, 2004

[Perky]

4. Given that he ran in the general election in 2000

and wound up costing Gore the election by virtue of him being o the infamous butterfly ballot, I think that is a very odd thing for him to say.

[amandabeech]

3. Pat also was against going into Iraq.

Combine Iraq withdrawal with clamping down on ILLEGAL immigration and doing everything to keep jobs here, another Pat project, and you get a package appealing to many voters. Now if Pat could just come up with a plan to lower gasoline prices, he'd have it made!

[SteppingRazor]

5. You mean, officially, as the candidate for the America First Party?

Seriously -- there is such a party: http://www.americafirstparty.org/

I think if all the right-wing third parties (AFP, Constitution, AIP, IAP, etc.) all got together to back Pat, it could certainly have a Nader-like influence, just from the opposite side of the political fence.

[etherealtruth]

6. I will donate to his campaign

The more votes siphoned from the repukes the better.

[noonwitch]

7. As entertaining as I think it would be, I don't think he'll run again

As an independent or a republican. He's too independent of a thinker to ever be let back into the GOP as a candidate, and too outside the mainstream to pick up a lot of independent voters. Also, he's getting old and just may be happy writing columns for a living.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. He's scary on that. A total xenophobe. nt