Reform Party

In “Dark Days for the Reform Party” (editorial, Feb. 15), The Times wondered “what a Buchanan-Fulani ticket would stand for?” I’m sorry to spoil the fun, but there won’t be a Buchanan-Fulani ticket. Pat Buchanan has said repeatedly that his running mate, were he to gain the Reform Party nomination, would be pro-life. Lenora Fulani is pro-choice. At the press conference where she endorsed Buchanan for president, Fulani made clear that she saw no role for herself as Pat’s running mate.

But it shouldn’t be so difficult to figure what a ticket led by Buchanan would stand for. It will stand for a halt to the trade deals that strip away American industrial jobs and cede decision-making to unelected global bureaucrats. It will stand for immigration reform that gives the huge wave of recent immigrants a time to settle in and assimilate. It will stand for an end to the mindless military interventions, like the bombing of Serbia.

It will stand for the end to racial quotas and set-asides and an end to the assault on the unborn. It will stand for campaign finance reform. Above all, it will stand for giving Americans a real choice on the many vital issues for which the two major parties are carbon copies of one another.

SCOTT McCONNELL

Senior Policy Advisor

Buchanan Reform 2000

Vienna, Va.

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Since I have bothered to look at their Web sites, I can tell you what common ground Buchanan and Fulani share: They support an end to the present U.S. imperial foreign policy that stations thousands of troops all over the world, an end to sanctions that have killed half a million children in Iraq, an end to “humanitarian” wars that only result in more ethnic cleansing and an end to U.S. membership in organizations such as the IMF, which support corrupt foreign governments and global big business at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and workers.

HAL ROUNDS

Torrance