Buchanan For Republican President : AZ IMC

BUSH TO FACE CHALLENGE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – John Buchanan, the Miami journalist and investigative reporter who made history recently when he discovered the U.S. government documents that proved the long-rumored Nazi past of the Bush family, is gearing up to challenge President George W. Bush in the New Hampshire Republican primary on January 27. At the same time, the “Bush-Nazi” story, first reported in the Gazette on October 10, continues to gain credence. On November 18, Presidential historian and George Bush biographer Herbert Parmet published a long essay on The History News Network (www.hnn.us) at George Mason University. “We need to do more than merely sift through the essence of (these) assertions, as troubling as they may be, to appreciate the value of (Buchanan’s) labors, and wonder at the contribution to public knowledge of (The New Hampshire Gazette),” wrote Parmet, author of George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (1998). Buchanan’s expose of Prescott Bush’s business deals with Nazis during World War II has also been noted in major newspapers around the world via Associated Press, including The Guardian, Hindustan Times, Moscow Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Jerusalem Post and U.S. newspapers including Newsday, Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Fox News and CNN also reported the story. Buchanan, 53, filed his Presidential candidacy with the New Hampshire Secretary of State on November 19. He will arrive in New Hampshire on December 5 to begin campaigning among Republican voters who oppose George W. Bush's policies, both overseas and at home. “George W. Bush has violated his central campaign promise to the American people – to ‘restore honor and integrity to the White House,’ ” said Buchanan, who owned an advertising agency and corporate PR firm in Los Angeles before relocating to Miami in 1997 and returning to a full-time journalism career. “Bush has turned the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Halliburton. He has sacrificed the blood and tax dollars of the American people in Iraq simply to enrich his wealthy corporate patrons.” “It's time to take back America – starting by taking back the Republican Party. It has been stolen by war profiteers. The interests of the people have been sold out to the interests of the Fortune 500. Bush has turned the White House into a corporate whore house.” Buchanan said he will hold the President accountable for the Iraq invasion, as a journalist, and based on fact, not opinion. “Everything the Bush administration said was a lie,” he said. “They defied the entire world to invade and occupy a nation that posed no threat to the United States. That violated everything this nation stands for, and cost us dearly in esteem around the world. Trust in America by the world community must be restored.” Buchanan is modeling his campaign after another journalist named Buchanan – Pat Buchanan, the conservative writer and activist who shocked the first President Bush by running a vigorous New Hampshire primary campaign in 1992 that ultimately won 37% of the vote. “In 1992, Pat Buchanan exposed the central lie of the first Bush administration, which was his ‘read-my-lips, no-new-taxes’ promise,” Buchanan said. “That Buchanan reached out to Republicans who were angry at that President Bush for breaking that solemn promise. Like Pat Buchanan, I will reach out to Republicans who are angry at this President Bush for breaking his solemn promises. My campaign will give Republican voters in New Hampshire the opportunity to hold Bush accountable for those broken promises and the lies they were based on.” Buchanan plans to run a grassroots, door-to-door campaign aimed at rank-and-file New Hampshire Republicans. “Since my articles appeared in the New Hampshire Gazette, I have heard from Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country who believe someone should stand up and tell the truth about George W. Bush by running as a Republican candidate for President. I will work as hard as I can to be that candidate. If nothing else, I will tell the truth.” — Stacey Michael (504) 329-5825