Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

===1992 presidential primaries===
{{Main|1992 Republican Party presidential primaries}}
[[File:Patbuchanan.gif|thumb|right|Logo used for Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 campaigns]]
[[File:Conservative politician Pat Buchanan at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida.jpg|thumb|right|Buchanan at the [[Florida State Capitol]] in 1992]]

Buchanan was highly critical of the foreign and economic policies of the [[Presidency of George H. W. Bush|George H.W. Bush administration]], particularly Bush's breaking of his 1988 "[[Read my lips: no new taxes]]" pledge.<ref name="NYT 92 reflection">{{cite news |title=The Problem With 'Read My Lips'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/15/opinion/the-problem-with-read-my-lips.html |access-date=November 28, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=November 1, 2020 |page=26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101105354/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/15/opinion/the-problem-with-read-my-lips.html |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |quote=Even so, voters could not forget the fiercely dramatic 1988 pledge. Playing to feelings of inconstancy, Patrick Buchanan challenged Mr. Bush in Presidential primaries.}}</ref> In 1990, Buchanan published a newsletter called ''Patrick J. Buchanan: From the Right''; it sent subscribers a bumper sticker reading: "Read Our Lips! No new taxes."<ref name="1990 sticker">{{Citation|last=Hays|type=column|title=The Washington Times|date=July 27, 1990 }}</ref> In the [[1992 Republican Party presidential primaries]], Buchanan challenged Bush in his bid for re-nomination by the Republican Party, launching his campaign in December 1991.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Robin|last1=Toner|title=Buchanan, Urging New Nationalism, Joins '92 Race |date=December 11, 1991|website=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/11/us/buchanan-urging-new-nationalism-joins-92-race.html}}</ref> Buchanan failed to win any primaries, but finished a strong second in the New Hampshire primary and was regarded as forcing Bush to walk back his economic policies.<ref name="NYT 92 reflection" /><ref name="Trib2">{{cite web |last1=Daley |first1=Steve |title=Stung by Bush Ad, Buchanan Gets Ferocious |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-28-9201190143-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=March 11, 2021 |date=February 28, 1992}}</ref> The Buchanan campaign ran a number of radio and TV spots criticizing Bush's policies; in one, Buchanan accused Bush of being a "trade wimp", while another attacked him for presiding over the [[National Endowment for the Arts|National Endowment of the Arts]], which he said "invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show."<ref name="Tongues1">{{cite news |last1=Mills |first1=David |title=The Director with Tongues Untied |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/06/15/the-director-with-tongue-untied/4ba20897-fa8c-4506-bffc-cc56e2fb1dd4/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 28, 2021 |date=June 15, 1992}}</ref>

In 1992, Buchanan explained his reasons for challenging the incumbent, President [[George H. W. Bush]]:

{{blockquote|text=If the country wants to go in a liberal direction, if the country wants to go in the direction of [Democrats] [[George J. Mitchell|George Mitchell]] and [[Tom Foley]], it doesn't bother me as long as I've made the best case I can. What I can't stand are the back-room deals. They're all in on it, the insider game, the establishment game{{mdash}}this is what we're running against.<ref name="WaPo-Ironfist" />}}

He ran on a platform of [[Immigration reduction in the United States|immigration reduction]] and [[Social conservatism in the United States|social conservatism]], including opposition to [[multiculturalism]], [[Abortion in the United States|abortion]], and [[LGBT rights in the United States|gay rights]]. Buchanan challenged Bush (whose popularity was waning) when he won 38% of the [[New Hampshire primary]]. In the primary elections, Buchanan garnered three million total votes or 23% of the vote.

Buchanan later threw his support behind Bush and delivered an address at the [[1992 Republican National Convention]], which became known as the [[culture war]] speech, in which he described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America."<ref>{{Citation|last=Buchanan|first=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph|url=http://buchanan.org/blog/1992-republican-national-convention-speech-148?doing_wp_cron=1478487975.2316689491271972656250|title=1992 Republican National Convention Speech|publisher=buchanan.org}}</ref> In the speech, he said of [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]:

{{blockquote|text=The agenda Clinton & Clinton would impose on America{{mdash}}abortion on demand, a [[Litmus test (politics)|litmus test for the Supreme Court]], homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units{{mdash}}that's change, all right. But it is not the kind of change America needs. It is not the kind of change America wants. And it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call God's country.<ref name="Culturewarspeech">{{cite web|url=http://www.buchanan.org/pa-92-0817-rnc.html|title=Republican National Convention Speech|last=Buchanan|first=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph|date=August 17, 1992|publisher=Patrick 'Pat' Joseph Buchanan|access-date=November 4, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012133633/http://www.buchanan.org/pa-92-0817-rnc.html|archive-date=October 12, 2006}}</ref>}}

Buchanan also said, in reference to the then recently held [[1992 Democratic National Convention]], "Like many of you last month, I watched that giant masquerade ball at [[Madison Square Garden]]—where 20,000 [[Radical politics|radicals]] and [[Liberalism in the United States|liberals]] came dressed up as [[Political moderate|moderates]] and [[Centrism|centrists]]—in the greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buchanan.org/blog/1992-republican-national-convention-speech-148|title=1992 Republican National Convention Speech|date=August 17, 1992|work=Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005032823/http://buchanan.org/blog/1992-republican-national-convention-speech-148|archive-date=October 5, 2014 }}</ref>

The contents of Buchanan's speech prompted his detractors to claim that the speech alienated moderate voters from the [[George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign|Bush-Quayle ticket]].<ref name="CBS-BacksBush">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/buchanan-reluctantly-backs-bush/|title=Buchanan Reluctantly Backs Bush|date=October 18, 2004|last=Kuhn|first=David Paul|work=News|publisher=CBS|access-date=December 6, 2006}}</ref> The newspaper columnist [[Molly Ivins]] wrote: "Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/073000/Perspective/A_wild_ride_on_the_le.shtml|title=Perspective: A wild ride on the left|last=Roberts|first=Diane|date=July 30, 2000|work=St. Petersburg Times.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000902183913/http://www.sptimes.com/News/073000/Perspective/A_wild_ride_on_the_le.shtml|archive-date=September 2, 2000|access-date=January 18, 2019}}</ref>