Buchanan: "Four years ago, four years ago I stood in this very room when we
made history and we have made history again tonight my friends here in New
Hampshire.
[Applause]
This is the second time my heart is filled with gratitude tonight,
gratitude for the many who helped with this campaign over a long, long year
of effort and labor and sacrifice and commitment. It is full of gratitude
for the wonderful people of new hampshire, who resisted negative
campaigning and nasty attack ads and smears, and all that nonsense. Let
them do their worst, we shall do our best.
People in New Hampshire, they voted their hopes, not their fears, their
aspirations and dreams, when they stood up to the negativists from inside
the Beltway.
[Applause]
and all those fellows with those attack ads, take them on back
down to the beltway, we don't need them up here.
[Applause]
My heart is, we love you, my friend, let me tell you. My
heart, my heart is filled with gratitude for another person tonight,
another person up here in New Hampshire, Nacky Loeb, Nacky loeb
[cheers]
Nacky Loeb is the political godmother of Pat Buchanan without
here and her fighting Union Leader of Joe McQuaid we would not be here
tonight, but we are here and we thank them both, my friends.
[Cheers]
Friends, this is not a victory for a man. Again, this a victory for
cause. It is the cause of a brand new bold conservatism in American
politics; conservatism that gives voice to the voiceless, that speaks up
for the right to life of the innocent unborn;
[cheers]
A conservatism, the conservatism that looks out for the men and women of
this country whose jobs have been sacrificed on the altars of trade deals
done for the benefit of trans-national corporations who have no loyalty to
our country, and no loyalty to anybody.
[Cheers]
"This is a victory, a victory for the good men and women of middle
America who cannot understand why there is deafness in washington and
silence about the fact the standard of living of our working men and women
in middle class have been stagnating, while profits have been soaring. They
call me names, somebody tonight called me a socialist, they call me "the
right," they can't figure out where we are: right, left, new deal, where is
that fellow?
(Laughter)
he's some strange creature from the 30's, no, he's 60's, 1700's, we don't
know where he's from. Well listen, where we're coming from, we're
conservatives of the heart, we care about the people. We're going to give
voice to the voiceless. We speak up for those who have no representative.
We're going to go to Washington. We will be a lobbyist for those who don't
have a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
[Cheers]
This new conservatism this is dedicated, this new conservatism is
committed to many things, and one thing we're going to do, we're going out
and after GATT and NAFTA, and we're going to recapture the lost sovereignty
of our country, and we're going to bring it home.
[Cheers]
We're going to make America, we're going to make America the
constitutional republic again of our founding fathers' dreams.
[Cheers]
We speak, we speak for a new generation of Americans, a new
generation which is about to take office and assume the leadership of this
country, which it does not apologize for the fact that we will defend
America's borders. We do not apologize for the fact that we're going to
take control of our own national destiny, and we do not apologize for the
fact that never again will young Americans be put under U.N. command.
[Cheers]
We're taking back
[Audience: Go Pat go, go Pat go....
You know Pat's got to get going, we could have those anchors up till
midnight if we keep this up fellas.
[Cheers]
Listen, we're taking back our party, we are on the verge of taking it back
as prelude to taking back our country, as prelude to taking back the
destiny of America. And I'm, when we get there, my friends, we will only
be obedient to one sovereign America, and that is the sovereign of god
himself and his laws. God only rules over this country.
[Cheers]
I believe, I believe those of us in this room are the true sons and
daughters I believe of the founding fathers. We are their legitimate and
rightful heirs. We have never forgotten where we came from. Our heritage
goes back to Lexington and Concord and Yorktown and Saratoga, and my
friends in this campaign, we have conducted a three-week political campaign
that will go down in legend in American political history.
[Applause]
They wrote us off -- three weeks ago, "Pat, when are you going to get out
of single digits, pat? When are you going to get out of single digits? Bob
Dole's at 50-percent." We told them, three weeks, stunned them in Alaska.
We came out of Alaska, we came out of the tundra, we went down to the bayou
of Louisiana, we did it again.
[Applause]
when we drove across those frozen cornfields of Iowa, they said
his trade message will never be heard out here. It was heard. And then we
came up here, along that river with those red mills there we won it all in
Manchester. We're going on to San Diego, we're going on to the nomination,
we're going on to the White House.
[Cheers]
You know, we have shown something here tonight, we have shown something
here tonight. We have proven to the country. We have proven that passion,
let me tell ya we will offer our hand, we will say "Listen, we will keep
the doors to this campaign open to only to we keep them to those who do not
shut any doors to us." But we have proven something in this campaign. We
have shown that ideas and ideals and conviction, and passion, and fire, and
energy, they can beat big money any time.
[Cheers]
they can beat all the money they've got.
[Cheers]
That's what America's all about.
So tonight, so tonight, we are headed down to South Carolina, from there,
we are going out to the Dakotas, I'm gonna go visit Mt. Rushmore, and
there's a spot up on that mountain I'm going to take a look at.
[Laughter and cheers]
Then we're going on we're going on to Arizona, where I'm going to conduct
a few burials out in Monument Valley.
[cheers]
Decent burials but listen my friends, we have won a tremendous victory
here tonight, but we no longer have the element of surprise. We had it in
Alaska and Louisiana. All the forces of the old order are going to rally
against us. The establishment is coming together, you can hear them right
now. The fax machines and phones are buzzing in Washington D.C. We've got
to get together, somebody's got to get out and take on this guy, we gotta
have one guy take him on. But I'll tell you what we don't have time, we
need the troops we need the troops we need the troops But I'm telling the
folks out in the country. They're going to come after this campaign with
everything they've got. Do not wait for orders from headquarters, mount up
everybody and ride to the sound of the guns.
[Cheers]
Thank you
[Audience: Go Pat go. Go Pat go]
Listen my friends, I didn't think there'd ever be a night, I didn't think
I'd ever have a night in American politics like that incredible night in
1992 when we met King George's army all along the Nashua Manchester Concord
line. I didn't think it would ever be like that again. I thought it was
the high water mark of the cause I believed in. We got a higher water mark
friends and I'm serious, we got to buckle down and we got to move forward.
We got to move forward with strength and courage and conviction and take
what they're going to deliver to us. We know what they're going to do to
us. They're coming at us every way, but you stay with me say your prayers
about this cause and campaign. I promise you I will lead as long as can
and as hard as I can and as far as I can, until we drop the torch and
someone else picks it up.
Thank you all and god bless you"
[Cheers from audience: Go Pat go.....]
