Do you remember Pat Buchanan, the one-time Republican candidate who challenged incumbent President George H.W. Bush for the presidency in 1992?\u00a0 \u00a0As Adam Nagourney reports<\/a> in the New York Times,<\/span> twenty years ago Buchanan raised many issues that resonate more than ever today within the Republican Party.\u00a0 These included abortion \u201con demand,\u201d homosexual rights, and discrimination against religious schools.\u00a0 Very rarely does an orator at a convention pave a way that is actually followed by his or her party.\u00a0 But Buchanan helped motivate and crystallize the Republican Party to advance their extreme right social and economic agendas.\u00a0 In ways that have been both subtle and obvious, he has succeeded.\u00a0 Now, we are paying the price through gridlock, and perhaps even worse, one-party right wing control.<\/p>\n

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