Strange Bedfellows: Fulani and Buchanan
Brian Kane
of Madagascar cinnamon, reading this gem from today's
Washington Post [copied without permission, fare use
applies, I believe]:
POST>Buchanan Becomes the One To Beat in Reform Contest
POST>
POST>By Thomas B. Edsall
POST>Washington Post Staff Writer
POST>Monday, September 20, 1999; Page A01
POST>
POST>Television commentator and GOP dissident Patrick J. Buchanan
appears
POST>to have a good chance of winning the Reform Party nomination for
POST>president in 2000 [...]
POST>
POST>While not endorsing Buchanan, those sending clear signals that they
could
POST>back him include outgoing Reform Chairman Russ Verney and 1996 vice
POST>presidential candidate Pat Choate -- both of whom are allied with
Perot --
POST>along with Lenora Fulani, the leftist third-party leader in New
York who
POST>has thrown in her lot with the Reform Party.
POST>
POST>Fulani has become a power in the Reform Party because she has a
phalanx
POST>of supporters who, unlike most party activists, will vote as a
bloc. She said
POST>recently on CNN that she could overlook differences she has with
POST>Buchanan concerning issues such as gay rights and abortion because
POST>Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together."
Eric Holeman
Brian Kane <bdk...@erols.com> wrote:
>I spit out my gulp of iced americano with a soupcon
>of Madagascar cinnamon, reading this gem from today's
>Washington Post [copied without permission, fare use
>applies, I believe]:
There's the fare box, right over there....
>POST>Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together."
You weren't kidding. That was downright hilarious. So much for any
worries I might have had about Fulani acting like a credible candidate.
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Eric Holeman Chicago, Illinois USA
John Whiteside
> I spit out my gulp of iced americano with a soupcon
> of Madagascar cinnamon, reading this gem from today's
> Washington Post [copied without permission, fare use
> applies, I believe]:
I had about the same reaction.
But really -- what a surprise, she's an opportunist? She didn't really
believe in all the New Alliance Party crap? I'm stunned!
---
John Whiteside
white...@yahoo.com OR johnwh...@mindspring.com
Terry Bartlett
Jess Anderson <ande...@facstaff.wisc.edu> wrote:
[deletions]
>But besides all that, I thought Jesse Ventura had more or less
>gained control of the Reform Party and that Buchanan would have
>to get Ventura's consent to run as a Reform candidate. I also
>can't imagine a libertarian like Ventura giving a "leftist"
><snort> like Fulani the time of day.
Unlike the two big parties, members of the Reform Party directly
vote for the party nominees for office. They don't use delegates.
Buchanan probably has as much support as anyone and will likely
be able to pull this off on name recognition alone, not to mention
the fact that he and Ross Perot substantively agree on some of the
larger (to them) issues.
Jesse Ventura is just the only Reform candidate to win office. He
can't dictate who the members at large should support. (although
his support of Donald Trump as the party's presidential candidate
seems just as strange as Buchanan in my opinion.)
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Terry Bartlett
bart...@spdcc.com
SPDCC provides the access. The opinions are all mine.
frank w elliott jr
: In article <37E69DF7...@erols.com>,
: Brian Kane <bdk...@erols.com> wrote:
:
: >I spit out my gulp of iced americano with a soupcon
: >of Madagascar cinnamon, reading this gem from today's
: >Washington Post [copied without permission, fare use
: >applies, I believe]:
: There's the fare box, right over there....
:
: >POST>Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together."
:
: You weren't kidding. That was downright hilarious. So much for any
: worries I might have had about Fulani acting like a credible candidate.
She's with the New Alliance Party, an alleged political party which
had its origins as a psychological cult. How are they be taken any
more seriously than those pathetic kooks in Aesthetic Realism, who
wonder around SoHo and the East Village with buttons that say "victim
of the media."
The New Alliance Party never has had any political credibility because
they pretend to be inclusive but they cater to bigots like Farakhan,
and they raise money for their party through patently obvious fraud.
So now, thanks to the N A P, Buchanan can add Lenora Fulani to his list
of New York supporters along with Broolyn borough idiot Yehuda Silver
and the loonier members of the Catholic League. This isn't politics;
it's performance art.
God, I miss New York.
Frank
Tim Wilson
> But besides all that, I thought Jesse Ventura had more or less
> gained control of the Reform Party and that Buchanan would have
> to get Ventura's consent to run as a Reform candidate. I also
> can't imagine a libertarian like Ventura giving a "leftist"
> <snort> like Fulani the time of day.
Ventura's control, if it exists at all, is marginal. His candidate
was chosen as party chair over Perot's, but it was a contest not a
blowout.
Current media reports are that Donald Trump is now Ventura's
preference as a presidential candidate for Reform. I think The Body
actually preferred Lowell Weicker (sp?), but that Weicker's record of
getting taxes raised in Connecticut (and accompanying diapproval
ratings) made Weicker almost unelectable.
Speaking of October 1917, there's talk that Warren Beatty (another
sp?) may also run for the Reform nomination. That would actually be
an interesting contest: Beatty vs. Trump vs. Buchanan. Still, I think
Buchanan should stay in the Republican party with the other, more
discrete, proto-Nazis.
--
Tim Wilson http://www.ee.memphis.edu/~tim/ mailto:tawi...@memphis.edu
Motss.Con.99 (1-3 October): http://www.ee.memphis.edu/~tim/motss.con/home.html
Clayton Colwell
: Current media reports are that Donald Trump is now Ventura's
: preference as a presidential candidate for Reform. I think The Body
: actually preferred Lowell Weicker (sp?), but that Weicker's record of
: getting taxes raised in Connecticut (and accompanying diapproval
: ratings) made Weicker almost unelectable.
: Speaking of October 1917, there's talk that Warren Beatty (another
: sp?) may also run for the Reform nomination. That would actually be
: an interesting contest: Beatty vs. Trump vs. Buchanan. Still, I think
: Buchanan should stay in the Republican party with the other, more
: discrete, proto-Nazis.
This is sounding more and more like some crazed Celebrity Deathmatch.
I can see the new PayPerView event where the potential Reform Party
candidates slug it out in the squared circle for the right to repre-
sent.
-- Clay, taking the joke more and more seriously
Mike Lane
Anderson) wrote:
>But besides all that, I thought Jesse Ventura had more or less
>gained control of the Reform Party and that Buchanan would have
>to get Ventura's consent to run as a Reform candidate. I also
>can't imagine a libertarian like Ventura giving a "leftist"
><snort> like Fulani the time of day.
I wish The Mind could run. I like the way he thinks. He is a
straight shooter with a strong mind and a "no bullshit" attitude.
Whenever a Repub or Dem try to pull that off they come off looking
ridiculous because you know damn well they are in the pocket of
whoever had the money to put them in power.
Mind you I did not say I wish The Mind would win. I have not heard
enough about how he stands on issues that matter to me. I would just
love to see him run. Even Buchanan is fun to watch but the man is so
completely insane on so many issues (I'm tempted to get his book
because the quotes from it look absolutely surreal) that he is
unelectable.
--
ML