re: #323 BeenHereAwhile

“Some days, I’m not so sure. Maybe for the younger crop of conservative dupes it’s a dogwhistle. But anyone old enough to remember the ‘92 campaign and Unka Pat’s RNC speech knows exactly what “culture war” means: abortion, gays, desegregation/integration, secularism, non-conformity, etc.”

Is this the speech in which Unka Pat calls for prayers for [certain] US Supreme Court Justices to die to enable more God fearing folk to be appointed.

That was the other Unka Pat, a couple years ago.

Pat Buchanan, 1992:

But tonight I do want to speak from the heart to the 3 million people who voted for Pat Buchanan for President. I will never — I will never — I will never forget you, or the great honor you have done me. But I do believe — I do believe deep in my heart that the right place for us to be now, in this presidential campaign, is right beside George Bush. This Party — This Party is my home. This Party is our home and we’ve got to come home to it. And don’t let anyone tell you any different.

Yes, we disagreed with President Bush, but we stand with him for the freedom to choose religious schools, and we stand with him against the amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women. We stand with President Bush — We stand with President Bush for right-to-life and for voluntary prayer in the public schools. And we stand against putting our wives and daughters and sisters into combat units of the United States Army. And we stand, my — my friends — We also stand with President Bush in favor of the right of small towns and communities to control the raw sewage of pornography that so terribly pollutes our popular culture. We stand with President Bush in favor of federal judges who interpret the law as written, and against would-be Supreme Court justices like Mario Cuomo who think they have a mandate to rewrite the Constitution.

Friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe and what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itself. For this war is for the soul of America. And in that struggle for the soul of America, Clinton & Clinton are on the other side, and George Bush is on our side. And so to the Buchanan Brigades out there, we have to come home and stand beside George Bush.