Buchanan: gay marriage is inevitable

Buchanan: gay marriage is inevitable
Conservatives will likely lose the 'culture war'


In a recent interview with TIME magazine, right-wing pundit and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan weighed in on gay marriage, the culture wars, and why he's not running for president.
In the following exchange, Buchanan tells the magazine that gay marriage is inevitible, conservatives can't likely win the culture wars, and that he's not running for president because "the American people have spoken on that issue."
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TIME: Do you think legal gay marriage is inevitable?
BUCHANAN: Traditionalists still have the upper hand, but there's no doubt which way the trend is going. And it is not going the conservative way.

TIME: Can conservatives win the culture wars?
Buchanan: Those of us on the right have been losing ground since the 1970s and '80s. Can we ultimately win? I think you would need a reconversion of the country to a traditionalist, Christian point of view--and I don't see that coming.

TIME: You ran for President three times, most recently in 2000. Will you again?
BUCHANAN: The American people have spoken on that issue. But I loved campaigning. Everywhere you go, people are saying, "Go, Pat, go!" It's like the NFL play-offs, and you're captain of one of the teams. But as [British politician] Enoch Powell once said, "All political lives end in failure."