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Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, who served as an adviser to both President Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, had twice sought the nomination of the Republican Party (in 1992 and 1996). Buchanan announced his third bid for the presidency on March 2, 1999 in New Hampshire.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/03/us/in-new-hampshire-buchanan-rides-again.html〕 In October of 1999, Buchanan announced that he was leaving the Republican Party in favor of Ross Perot's Reform Party. Buchanan's campaign was plagued by controversy, party infighting, and ultimately the Florida recount controversy. Buchanan ran on an anti-NAFTA, pro-life, anti-war, isolationist platform. ==The primaries== Pat Buchanan twice competed for the Republican Party presidential nomination. In 1996 he won the New Hampshire Primary, defeating Bob Dole by 3,000 votes. Ultimately, Dole received the party's nomination. In October 1999 Buchanan left the Republican Party, condemning both his former party and their Democratic Party rivals, saying: "Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a projected wetland and their natural habitat!" 〔http://thinkexist.com/quotation/neither-beltway-party-is-going-to-drain-this/918411.html〕 Reform Party founder Ross Perot did not endorse a candidate, but his former running-mate Pat Choate endorsed Buchanan. Buchanan competed in the party's primary against the Reform Party's wealthiest contender, real estate mogul Donald Trump and against Dr. John Hagelin, a physicist from Iowa. The party soon erupted into chaos as supporters of the liberal Hagelin fought members of the "Buchanan Brigade." Trump eventually dropped out of the race, citing the party's inability to unite. At various points violent confrontation between the two groups required police intervention.〔http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-22-2000/indecision-2000---reform-party-conventions〕 During the party's convention in Long Beach, California, supporters of the two candidates split into rival factions. Both declared themselves to be the legitimate Reform Party; Buchanan was unshaped by the split, saying: "Let me say this, my friends: We are here, down here in Long Beach, to capture a nomination of the Reform Party that has been won because of what you have been doing for ten months." 〔http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec00/reform_8-10.html〕 Eventually, both groups nominated their candidate of choice, and the question as to whom would receive the party's $12.6 million was decided, in Buchanan's favor, by a court. In his acceptance speech, Buchanan proposed U.S. withdrawal from the IMF, the WTO, the UN, and expelling the UN from New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, soft money, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs. Buchanan also proposed a 10% tariff of foreign imports and term-limits for members of Congress. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Buchanan presidential campaign, 2000」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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