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Entry: A Meditation for Guy Fawkes Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_meditation_for_guy_fawkes_day#8460 Post contents: I think we are in general agreement except on one point. Buchanan wasn’t rejected by some voters because he was Roman Catholic. It was on specific issues, some of them dealing with Buchanan’s entirely correct views on Middle East policy, that were the reasons for some to vote against Buchanan. At that time, the Neocons were more or less in league with the Dole establishment wing of the Republican party (i.e., the Neocons didn’t hold the upper hand as they do today). The Neocons along with others were able to demonize some of Buchanan’s entirely correct positions, on the Middle East, on trade policy, the role of the USA in world affairs and even on immigration. The Neocon swear words of the time were “protectionist, isolationist, nativist.” Of course, today the huge US trade deficit is a nightly topic on Lou Dobbs, as is immigration and the disastrous results of our interventionist foreign policy. Note that some famous Catholic Republicans hold the same views as those evangelical and fundamentalist “conservatives” who rejected Buchanan in 1996. Former Senator Rick Santorum and current Senator Sam Brownback come to mind. Check out the Catholics at National Review and you will find more. Sent at: 2008 10 15