Buchanan Assails Bush Over Confederate Plaques
Reform Party presidential hopeful Patrick J. Buchanan lashed out Thursday at Gov. George W. Bush for removing Civil War commemorative plaques from the Texas high court building.
“Mr. Bush is kowtowing to the NAACP, quite frankly,” Buchanan said at a news conference. “Removal of [Confederate] plaques that respected and honored Southern heritage is an act of political vandalism which tells us that ‘compassionate conservatism’ is but a synonym for squishy Republicanism.”
He went on to accuse Bush of “sacrificing the honored heritage of the South to the unappeasable gods of political correctness.”
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