-=> Quoting Matt Smith to John Perz on 07 Aug 96  23:37 <=-
 Re: Buchanan 
 JP> The United States Taxpayer's Party is holding it's convention later
 JP> this month in the same city as the Republicans, with the hopes that
 JP> many disenfranchised party faithful will stay in San Diego.  They are
 JP> expecting hundreds, but will settle for one: Pat Buchanan.
 JP> Howard Phillips is listed as the presidential candidate for the US
 JP> Taxpayer's Party, a conservative party formed in 1992.  But he says
 JP> he's only a stand-in needed for the ballot petition process
 JP> nationwide, and hopes to step aside in favor of Pat Buchanan if the
 JP> firebrand conservative commentator bolts from the Republican Party
 MS> A real possibility, in view of the Republican Party's elites
 MS> screwing Pat on the speech. 
Well, they were all saying yesterday that with the current platform Pat 
believes he can support the Dole candidacy. So much for the U.S.T.P.
Though in reality, what does a platform matter? We had a candidate last 
time who was explicitly running against the state's party platform. The 
platform doesn't say what Dole stands for, but what the delegates stand
for. Unless he endorses it, it means nothing. (And of course, we know 
that with many candidates even if they say one thing they'll do another.)
Maybe Pat should run - at least we know he would work for what the 
platform says!
Steve
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