With all due respect Genie, what you have said to me is a "some of my best friends are..." type of argument. Sure, and I like old dead liberals, Truman and Kennedy, you say today's liberals like Barry Goldwater--in fact,I missed by three days being able to vote for JFK. What does that prove or even mean? Conservatives should be old-type conservatives, and liberals should be old-type liberals. Well, I believe, that when all is said and done, if the latter were the case, so would the former.

BTW, if I were a Democrat. I would like a Goldwater-type. He suffered the largest Republican presidential defeat of my memory. An old joke comes back to me from the Viet-Nam era, altho' I don't remember the source. ---They told me if I voted for Goldwater that we'd expand the war in Viet-Nam. Well I did vote for Barry, and we did expand the war in Viet-Nam.---

Nobody I've heard on the liberal side has ever said a positive word about Buchanan. If they have, it does them no credit that they admire a man that William F. Buckley, in print, said, in effect, that it was hard not to consider Buchanan (or his views) anti-Semitic. He is the most right wing of conservatives I can think on nearly every issue.