-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Buchanan says "bogus" debate rules shut him out Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan talks Tuesday with KMOX radio's Charlie Brennan and McGraw Milhaven. (Karen Elshout/P-D) By Eric Stern Of the Post-Dispatch Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan on Tuesday called presidential debate organizers "a crabbed little conspiracy" of Republicans and Democrats who rigged next month's debates "to keep the presidency in their hands forever." Buchanan said the Commission on Presidential Debates blocked him from the three match-ups between George Bush and Al Gore with "bogus" rules that require a 15 percent showing in national polls. Buchanan is hovering around 1 percent. The Reform Party nominee and two-time GOP candidate stopped in St. Louis Tuesday to appear on a KMOX radio talk show. Buchanan, who appeared thinner after recent gallbladder surgeries that sidelined him for several weeks, fired away in typical fashion at the political establishment that shuns him. He argued that the commission should not discriminate against the Reform Party, which receives tax dollars just like the Democrats and Republicans. "We met all the criteria," said Buchanan, whose campaign account will be filled with $12.6 million in federal matching funds. "They just established a brand-new criteria when they saw me heading for the Reform Party." Buchanan said the contest would turn into a "three-way race" if he appeared with Bush and Gore at the debates. The two leading candidates agreed to debates Oct. 3 in Boston, Oct. 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. Buchanan and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader have sued unsuccessfully to be included. Buchanan said a 15 percent polling requirement is unfair and arbitrary. As a consolation of sorts, Buchanan and Nader will debate on NBC's "Meet the Press" this Sunday. "At least it will remind the American people that there's two other candidates running and they've been denied access to the nation, which is the only way you can win the presidency of the United States," Buchanan said after the radio show. Buchanan said he's in the race to offer an alternative to Bush and Gore. But he refused to be labeled a "spoiler," a title he earned during his strong showings in the 1992 and 1996 Republican presidential primaries. He said Bush carries the "weakest resume" of any Republican presidential nominee. Buchanan vowed to appoint anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court and give the federal budget surplus "back to the people" if elected. He opposes free-trade agreements and sending troops overseas. But not all of his supporters are following. In this strong economy, it seems that Buchanan's "peasants with pitchforks" - what he dubbed his supporters in 1992 and 1996 - have become soccer moms with SUVs. One caller to KMOX said, "Frankly, you lost me, Pat, when you left" the Republican Party. But Buchanan said it was the Republican Party that abandoned the conservative wing. "It's not my party anymore," he said. "I'm a true conservative Republican, and I will fight for my beliefs." To contact reporter Eric Stern: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 862-2186 *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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