Buchanan: Culture war has been lost

Pat Buchanan, the angst-ridden cultural warrior who is the single most-blamed person for Bush I's re-election loss in 1992, waved a white flag today in a Washington Times interview, saying "I can't say we won the cultural war, and it's more likely we lost it." He points to the prominence of what he calls "social liberals" at last year's Republican convention -- Schwartzenegger, Giuliani and Pataki -- and bemoans the changes in "what Hollywood produces today and what it produced in the 1950s. The alteration is dramatic." And:

"We say we won a great victory by defeating gay marriage in 11 state-ballot referenda in November," he says. "But I think in the long run, that will be seen as a victory in defense of a citadel that eventually fell."

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