Sean Carlisle said:
We don't have an advocate for our race other than maybe Pat Buchanan and he'll never get elected.
Buchanan never was and never will be an open advocate for whites, not in the totally committed way that leaders of other races and tribes are. Pat has always had a split personality in his political endeavors, saying things that strongly appealled to patriots, religious conservatives (the non-Zionist kind that is), populists, nationalists and racial nationalists, and militia types. That was his natural base and it could have been built into a large, organized and highly motivated force by Buchanan.
But "good" Pat always trumped Pitchfork Pat. Good Pat didn't want to make the break and leave his life-long confines inside the Beltway and give up the perks and privileges that come with being a player in the highest ranks of the Permanent Regime.
Old-time establishment conservatives who liked Buchanan lacked the constitution to ever repudiate the system, much less rebel against it. That was the job of the Pitchfork Peasants. But Pat never let the peasants get too close, and some were openly purged and denounced if found too close to the inner workings of Buchanan's presidential campaigns, which consisted almost solelyof Pat and his more liberally inclined sister Bay.
Despite Buchanan's failure to, as Sam Francis wrote,fully embrace the implications of the ideas he espoused, the peasants were excited in 1992 and again, to a somewhat lesser extent, in '96. In both of those campaigns Buchanan did not challenge what many of his supporters thought was vote fraud in several primaries. In '96 the Bob Dole campaign gave him no role at the GOP National Convention, a slap in the face to which Buchanan responded by endorsing Dole.
Then came the fiasco of a campaign in 2000 when Buchanan took over the remains of the Reform Party that had been started by Ross Perot. Pat picked a very unqualified black woman to be his running mate, a gesture that most of his true supporters interpreted as Buchanan giving them his middle finger. During his Reform campaign, Buchanan notably lacked fire and passion and avoided racial issues other than immigration.
The more cynical wondered if the main idea had been to provide a respectable but impotent "safety valve" to keep Buchanan's"non-respectable" supporters somewhat content. None of Buchanan's three presidential campaigns ever worked on setting up Buchananite organizations in the 50 states, where supporters would run for government at all levels on the ideas and principles of their leader and build strong organizations to assist those candidates. Rather, Buchanan campaign appearances were more of a dog and pony show that quickly came and went, leaving a vapor trail in their wake rather than incipient campaign organizations.
Buchanan received $12 million in federal matching funds in 2000, thanks to the efforts Perot had made with the Reform Party four years earlier. That kind of beans, combined with the millions raised from his supporters, was sufficient to purchase a large amount of time on national television, in traditional 30 and 60 second commercials, but also in larger blocs of time such as 30 and 60 minute presentations. Instead, what money that was spent on advertising -- and it appears from FEC reports to be very little -- was used to buy radio commercials in various markets.
I was for a long time one of Pat Buchanan's biggest supporters. I have met him several times and corresponded with him. He still is a powerful writer with a powerful mind albeit very restrained in criticizing the real powers and their agendas. But I'm glad he's no longer a political candidate. We desperately need leaders, but from hereon out, our leaders, should they emerge in a system dedicated above all else to preventing them from emerging, will come exclusively from outside the Beltway.