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BUCHANAN RALLY
02-20-1996
00:00:00:00 [GOP presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan speaks during rally in his honor MS Buchanan and wife Shelley board plane :57// INT Buchanan's airplane as wife Shelley sits reading "TIME" magazine, Buchanan sits revising unid papers 1:38// MS Buchanan & wife Shelley de-plane, walk across tarmac, enter unid bldg :48.// VS audience at Buchanan rally site :40/ MS Buchanan arrives on stage, gives thumbs-up to audience, claps as band plays, audience chants "Go, Pat, Go"/ PAN (looks like high school) band playing :56/ ZI Buchanan puts on red, white & blue top hat on stage, gives thumbs-up sign, tosses hat back into crowd :16/ MS Buchanan on stage as band continues to play; Buchanan takes podium after brief introduction, intros Shelley (she waves briefly), jokes she is busy working on your national health care, folks; we have had 3 hours of sleep since one of the great victories in American political history in the state of New Hampshire; we did the same thing we did in Iowa, just a little better; Bob Dole started that race 50 points ahead, he outspent us 5 to 1 and when returns came in, Bob Dole came in second best, we are the winners of New Hampshire; Bob Dole said last week whoever wins the Republican primary in New Hampshire, that fellow is going to be the Republican nominee--he is right again; I understand he already has the phone banks working on me, got the negative phone calls out there, listen-they've got negative phone calls, all the negative ads, you are going to see their Washington consultants with their little briefcases coming down in to South Dakota, all they have are attack ads, they haven't got any vision, they haven't got ideas, convictions, beliefs, they've been spending all the money in the world-Phil Gramm spent all the money in the world, but what did we find out-we found out in the case of Phil Gramm and the case of Bob Dole what the Beatles taught us a long time ago--money can't buy you love, my friend (LAUGHS); let me tell you why this campaign is catching fire--3 weeks ago in Alaska we were outspent by Steve Forbes 3 to 1 and we won the great Alaska caucuses, record turnout; a week later, in Louisiana, Phil Gramm had the entire establishment with him, we went down there and campaigned and we beat him in a landslide in his own back yard; we went to Iowa, we'd been 50 points behind, we were outspent by Senator Dole 5 to 1 and we came within 3 points of Bob Dole is his second home state and we beat him last night in New Hampshire; in history, in the last 30 years, every individual who has won New Hampshire primary in the Republican primary has gone on to win the Republican nomination for President and we are going to maintain that tradition; let me tell you why we will win-it is not because of me, I come off a talk show-I represent, I think-we become the political instrument of a great and good cause and that great and good cause is a new conservatism of the heart, a new conservatism that stands up for those who don't have anybody else to stand up for them, provides a voice for the voiceless in America, that speaks out boldly and unapologetically for the unborn in this country; Sen Dole and his friends, they waffle around, say this isn't a very popular issue, lets move off that issue, move on to something else; one of the problems in Washington--liberals, conservatives and moderates--you've got people that say one thing Monday, another thing on Friday; a reason this campaign has taken hold is even my critics in Washington, even those people will tell you that Pat Buchanan is a man who says what he means and means what he says, so let me tell you my views on right to life--I have been pro-life my whole life, I am going to San Diego and I am going to keep that pro-life plank in the Republican platform, I am going to pick a pro-life running mate, I am going to overturn Roe vs Wade and I will be the most pro-life president in the history of the United States; when they had that great battle over NAFTA and GATT and the sellout of American jobs and American farmers and the sellout of our sovereignty, all of the establishment back there, Dole and Gingrich and Gramm and Clinton and Ruben and Greenspan and the Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Foundation, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal--who stood against NAFTA? 4 people: Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Jesse Jackson, what the Wall Street Journal called the "Halloween Coalition"; we stood against it and we fought it and we got beat because they are buying votes on the floor of the Congress of the United States; now we have had 2 years of NAFTA and who proved right about NAFTA-we did; in those 2 years, the small American trade surplus with Mexico is gone, we have a $15 billion trade deficit with Mexico and a $15 billion trade deficit with Canada, that's $30 billion, that translates into 600,000 lost jobs last year, Canada and Mexico; illegal immigration-they said it would go down, it is soaring in this country, my friends, they apprehend a million and a quarter along the border, every year millions come across that border, every year into the US illegally; every year more people cross the border illegally into this country than there are people in North and South Dakota; they told us this was a great deal, Mexico was a great government to get in a partnership with, but after one year of NAFTA, the Mexican government shows up in Washington, it devalues the peso, says we owe your banks $25-$50 billion, we're not sure how much, but we ain't got a nickel in our jeans, so we want you to give us the money to pay back your banks; so Bob Dole and Bill Clinton and all the rest of them got together and they sent $50 billion in loans and loan guarantees to Mexico City, the money bounced off Mexico City, went into the New York banks, their bonds are paid off, they were taken off the hook, and guess who they put on--you and men and your children and grandchildren, put on the hook for $50 billion in loans and loan guarantees to that corrupt government in Mexico; when I get there, we will cancel NAFTA, there'll be no more $50 bailouts of socialist regimes anywhere on earth; the American farmer-I have friends in the Florida winter tomato growing industry, when Mexico de-valued the peso, cut their prices in half and de-facto doubled the prices of American goods, Mexican tomatoes poured in to this country and virtually destroyed the winter tomato industry, talk to your cattle farmers here, so what is happening because of these unfair trade deals; I don't agree with this fellow Brian Dorigan (sp?) very much, but he said about NAFTA that we got sold a lemon and when you get sold a lemon you take it back and turn the lemon in and that is what NAFTA is all about and we are going to turn NAFTA in and provide trade deals that look out for the interest of American farmers, workers and businesses; these trade deals involve a steady surrender of the sovereignty of the United States for which our founding fathers fought and died; our founding fathers died so you and I would decide, democratically, how we govern ourselves; look what we did in GATT--our leaders in Washington surrendered sovereignty of America's trade to a new UN of world trade that they call the World Trade Organization; our founding fathers said trade should be the province of the American government of the Congress of the United States, Congress gave it to a world trade organization headed by a European bureaucrat--surrendered our sovereignty, we get one vote out of 120, they are not dictating to us; the World Trade Center says we have to change our environmental laws because Mexico and Venezuela don't like them--they are dictating to America; we know 16 young Americans were shot down in Iraq in that friendly fire incident, the bodies of those young men and women were brought back to Dover Air Force Base, the VP of the United States said the parents of these young Americans can be proud they died in service to the United Nations (BOOING), they did not take an oath to the United Nations, they took an oath to the Constitution, and let me tell you something, when I become President of the United States, never again will young Americans be sent into battle, except under American officers to fight under an American flag; (talks ab Michael New, army medical soldier) New is 23 years old, volunteered to serve his country in the army of the United States, he was sent to Germany, he has been decorated, he is a medical soldier; Bill Clinton, his Commander in Chief, ordered him into Macedonia to become a UN peacekeeper, he told Michael New to put on UN insignia, put on a UN helmet and take orders from UN soldiers and Michael New said I am not going to do that, my oath is to the Constitution of the United States, it is not to the charter of the UN, it is not to Boutros-Boutros Gahli, or whatever his name is, we don't take orders from "Boo-Boo Ghali"; what happened to Michael New-his Commander in Chief, Mr. Clinton had him court marshaled, convicted, stripped of his rank, and dishonorably discharged from the service of his country; I'll tell you something-Michael New is not the one who ought to be discharged from the service of his country, Bill Clinton is the one who ought to be discharged from the service of his country and I intend to do that; you know when Bill Clinton talks, he turns to some fellow and says (PRETENDS TO TALK LIKE CLINTON) "I feel your pain"; you give me that nomination, he will feel the pain, he will "feel the pain"; this campaign is going, friends, it is moving; my friend Bob Dole, he's got attack ads, they don't have ideas, they don't have passion and fire and rhetoric, they don't go talk to the people, they sit up there around the beltway, Dole says this isn't the way we planned it in New Hampshire, it wasn't supposed to be jobs and the economy and what is happening to the American worker; you've heard that movie "Sleepless in Seattle"-I got a new one called "Clueless in Washington"-got all the establishment up there, they don't know what is going on out in America; the State Department is going to give him orientation courses before they send him out in America from Washington, DC, give him the shots and everything, have them learn the language of America, but we're in touch, we are in touch with America because we travel it and we are speaking from the heart of America because we listen to the heartbeat of America from out here; Bob Dole's out there on his little telephone thing, says 'do you know Pat Buchanan is an extremist-click'; they're running these out here, funny thing is if I am an extremist, how come Bob Dole is stealing all of my ideas?; how come Bob Dole sounds like me-there is a cultural war going on for the soul of America, he says we have to do something about these corporate greed, he said that from the back seat of a corporate jet of Chiquita Banana airways; Bill Clinton sounds like us, are you all familiar with this Imus in the morning character-he said I heard Bill Clinton's State of the Union speech and I am convinced Pat Buchanan wrote it; this guy is shameless, Clinton, he got up there and said the era of big government is over, this is the same guy that tried to seize the whole health care system a year ago; he said we have to do something about illegal immigration in this country, he said we have to get prayer back in the public schools, I've always believed that, he said we have to get a balanced budget, I tell you he is shameless; you wait one week, he'll be out there at the Natl Rifle Association, he'll be standing up there in one of those combat camouflage outfits with a fatigue hats, he'll be holding an AK-47 over his head, saying (TRYING TO SOUND LIKE CLINTON) don't try to take my firearms away from me; my friends, this campaign is winning America and the signs of it are that our message is being echoed in every campaign in America; we are putting these politicians in touch with the people in the sense that we are articulating what is happening in America; they are inauthentic, they are not people who believe in things, they are people who read what is written for them by someone else, we have been talking these things from the heart for a long time, we don't have pollsters, we don't have consultants, I don't need anybody to write speeches for Pat Buchanan, I use to write speeches for presidents-Ronald Reagan, that is why we can do well on far less money than those fellows, that is why all they have to rely on is attack ads; this is a good cause, don't pay any attention to those attack ads and phone calls, vote your hopes for tomorrow, not your fears, vote your dreams and aspirations for your children, vote for a president you want to be proud to say I was there when Pat Buchanan was president, he did great things for our country, I believe in him; vote for the future, not the past; this campaign is on fire; in 3 weeks, we've gone from single digits to Pat when are you going to get out of this thing, to where they say the establishment in Washington is just terrified, the phone calls and fax machines are going all over; I don't think they can stop us because I think we have America with us; first time I spoke here I spoke at the pig arena, now we have a tremendous crowd; it is only one week to the South Dakota primary, Sen Dole says it is his back yard, he has taken it for granted, call your friends, we can do it, we can do it one or two more victories and it can be ours; we're going to Rapid City, I'm going up to Mt. Rushmore, I'm going to take a look, there's some space, I think between Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, see if we can maybe fit up there (LAUGHS), then we're going to Arizona tomorrow morning because I'm going to bury a couple of my friends out there in Monument Valley; SPCH ENDS/ MS Buchanan de-stages, moves through crowd greeting supporters (walks with girl riding on his shoulders at one point; some of video is shot from distance and not very good) 3:41. (0:00)/
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