Buchanan Aims Reform Effort at Reagan Democrats

MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. — On his first full day as a Reform Party presidential candidate, Patrick J. Buchanan on Tuesday went straight to Macomb County and its coveted voters known as Reagan Democrats.

Buchanan took his staunch messages of social conservatism and “America first” military and economic ideology to the suburban Detroit county where Ronald Reagan successfully voiced them in 1980--even as voters continued to elect and reelect Democrats farther down the ticket.

Both major parties, however, have failed the American people, Buchanan said, echoing remarks he made Monday in announcing he was quitting the Republican Party.

“They pretend to be two separate parties, battling parties. But it is a lot like professional wrestling, where one guy wins one night and they go on to another town and the other guy wins,” Buchanan told 700 students, teachers and supporters at Lutheran North High School.