Portsmouth Herald RAN 2/18/96 Pg. B1 By Shirley Jacques Herald Staff PORTSMOUTH - After waiting nearly an hour, 400 of the faithful shouted as one, ``Go, Pat, go'' as Pat Buchanan bounded to the microphone at Yoken's yesterday afternoon. Kathy Dufton brought her family from Newington for the rally and didn't mind the wait. ``I made up my mind in 1992. I'm a very patient woman,'' she said. Buchanan apologized for being late and said he'd been in Maine, where he said Republican activist Linda Bean led 90 percent of Sen. Phil Gramm's organization into the Buchanan camp. Gramm withdrew from the race last week. ``We're working on the other 10 percent, and we're going to carry Maine. Our campaign is open to Gramm supporters, and we're going all the way to San Diego. I personally will keep the Republican convention pro-life,'' he vowed. A senior adviser to three presidents, speech writer and newspaper columnist, Buchanan proved he's not lost his touch for the one-liner. ``I grew up inside the Beltway before there was a Beltway. I even delivered the Washington Post as a kid. We have to get rid of that D.C. bureaucracy. What are folks in Washington doing trying to tell you folks in New Hampshire how to educate your kids? ``One year and bye, bye Department of Education. No more Goals 2000. We'll shut down the house Lamar built.'' Wild shouts and clapping greeted his theme of the cultural war for the soul of America. ``The first battleground is our public schools. Already in California, Easter is out and Earth Day is in. We can all worship dirt. ``Washington's name is off Feb. 22. It's Presidents Day, and we can all pay homage to Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur and Bill Clinton,'' Buchanan said as the audience shouted ``No, no, no'' when he mentioned Clinton. Buchanan accused his opponents of stealing his ideas. ``Clinton says big government is over, and (Sen Bob) Dole's talking about workers. I'm going to get them for copy infringement.'' Buchanan reminded the standing room only audience jammed into Yoken's that he stood up to NAFTA. ``They're selling out the sovereignty of this nation, and 300,000 jobs are gone. Soon it will be NAFTA that's gone,'' he vowed. Mentioning World War II and his uncles who served, Buchanan railed against the revision of history and complimented those veterans as ``the greatest generation of Americans there has ever been.'' Touching on the United Nations mission in the Balkans, Buchanan said he would never send Americans to fight except under American officers. Buchanan said his opponents call him an unemployed angry white man seeking the presidency. ``New Hampshire is too intelligent for this _ the best way to say no to negative attack ads is to say yes to Pat Buchanan.'' Are voters getting tired of it all? ``Absolutely not,'' said Ray Reilly of Rochester. ``Negative ads speak for themselves. I'm excited enough to come through a snowstorm for this.'' ``I'll be glad to see the primary end just as soon as Pat wins it,'' Dianne Gilbert from Epping said. John Marshall from Eliot admitted he's tiring of the repetition of the campaign. ``I'll be glad when the primary's over.'' Carol Mulligan came from Connecticut, where there's been no real campaigning for the March 5 primary. ``I came from Windsor to see Buchanan, and I wasn't disappointed.'' ``We are surging, we are rolling,'' Buchanan shouted as he ran off the stage, heading back to Manchester.