Buchanan says Gore prepared for the job
11/02/00
TOM GORDON
News staff writer
Reform Party presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan
says voters don't have much of a choice between Vice
President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush in
Tuesday's presidential election, but Gore would bring
more experience and know-how to the White House.
"In my judgment, Mr. Bush has a very pleasant and
attractive persona," the former conservative
commentator and two time Republican presidential
contender said during a campaign swing through
Birmingham.
"But no candidate has ever been nominated by a major
party in the last 150 years that I have seen who ... would
come to the presidency with less in the way of
knowledge, experience, background and qualification to
be president."
As for Gore, Buchanan said, "There's no question, if you
talk about background, experience, knowledge of the
issues, there is no question he is fully qualified from that
standpoint, and very qualified from that standpoint."
Buchanan, however, thinks he's a better choice. He says
he wants to protect U.S. jobs, dramatically revise the
tax code and scale back U.S. international troop
deployments and the nation's involvement in international
organizations. He's on Tuesday's ballot in Alabama as an
independent candidate.
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