Are the Reforms right or left wing?

[George_Bonanza]

[JohnKleeb]

1. the reform party? I believe more right wing

though they'll agree with some on the left wing about trade and what not but mostly I think they're right wing.

[depakid]

2. As far as i can tell, they don't have a coherent belief system n/t

[Nite Owl]

3. More right but I think that they

are deficit hawks and anti corporate welfare so they aren't wild about Bush* by any means.

[George_Bonanza]

4. So they're like a paleoconservative party?

As opposed to Bush's neoconservative party?

[denverbill]

5. Neither really.

When they started out, they were just anti-two-party-system more than anything. Perot was big-time against NAFTA, which would be a left-wing policy (protecting American labor), while Clinton and Bush both favored it in 92. Beyond that his politics weren't memorable.

Buchanon hijacked the party in 2000 and so it was conservative then.

[mandyky]

6. While they lean right, in 2000 Hagelin of

the natural law party tried to get on the reform party - the buchanan people bullied the hagelin people out, it almost came to blows during the convention.

For those who don't know, the NLP is very much left, very similar to Dennis Kucinich.