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Abraham Lincoln would've lost to LBJ in 1964.
1 posted on 12/04/2015 2:35:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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No, more like Reagan.


2 posted on 12/04/2015 2:35:40 PM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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Once JFK was killed, LBJ was unbeatable.

Goldwater and JFK were planning a different kind of race. They even talked about doing a whistle-stop tour together. At one stop, President Kennedy would come out and talk about an issue and Senator Goldwater would rebut him. At the next stop, they’d reverse it.


3 posted on 12/04/2015 2:37:11 PM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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No. Goldwater didn’t connect with the common man and he kept saying stupid things like “extremism...is no vice” actually acquiescing to the Loony Left’s depiction of him and handing over the debate on a silver platter. Trump’s smarter than that.


4 posted on 12/04/2015 2:39:29 PM PST by Jim W N
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Cruz is Goldwater, the modern day epitome of conservatism.

There may be someone better out there, but I don’t know who.

Cruz is a strong cup of conservative coffee.

Whether America can ever elect a conservative again is a good question. But if we cannot in 2016, we never will again. People hate 0bama. People do not trust Hillary.

At this moment in history, we should take our chance on the most conservative guy in the room: Cruz.


5 posted on 12/04/2015 2:41:30 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Q: What do you call a Muslim who commits an act of terror? A: Devout.)
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Wanna see the Republican party crushed and destroyed? Force Jeb down our throats. Jeb is the next Dole, the next McCain and the next Romney, all crammed into a single RINO skin...

Warnin’ ya, GOPe. You do it, you’re toast.

Just sayin’...


7 posted on 12/04/2015 2:43:31 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” he said. “And…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

I forgot that was his quote.


9 posted on 12/04/2015 2:52:24 PM PST by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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You got the GOPe crappin’ in their leftest panties....roll on Trump & Cruz


11 posted on 12/04/2015 2:58:41 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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If the GOP nominee is NOT Trump or Cruz, the party will be crushed.

Into dust.


12 posted on 12/04/2015 2:58:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Islamophobia? It is not irrational to fear evil)
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Jeb Bush: second coming of Bob Dole/John McCain/Mitt Romney?
Chris Christie: second coming of Bob Dole/John McCain/Mitt Romney?
Marco Rubio: second coming of Bob Dole/John McCain/Mitt Romney?
John Kasich: second coming of Bob Dole/John McCain/Mitt Romney?

Two can play at this game.
14 posted on 12/04/2015 3:09:42 PM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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... and his appeal is based more on his outsize persona rather than ideology.

Am calling BS on the author.

She apparently has no idea the most men and most clear thinking women understand there is a time, most certainly when faced with evil, that a man should "stand up".

The evil in this case is a political boa constrictor, appearing in the form of a liberal agenda and political correctness together with an effeminate non-responsive political opposition (GOP), that that is slowly extinguishing our traditional and constitutional freedoms.

Trumps appeal is based on the fact he appears willing to "stand up", while most of the others appear willing to compromise and remain seated to a large extent.

15 posted on 12/04/2015 3:10:14 PM PST by frog in a pot (What if a previously D liberal candidate promised most of the things we wanted to hear from the R's?)
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Abraham Lincoln only got 39% of the vote....,

Just saying.


17 posted on 12/04/2015 3:12:04 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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Obama isn’t JFK, Hillary Clinton ain’t LBJ, and this isn’t 1964. In 1964 Democrats controlled most state houses and governorships, union membership was over 25% (it’s now around 12%), the Democratic Party was not yet solely home to Marxist-Leninists and other creatures of the Looney Left, and the majority of voters still held personal and reverential memories of FDR. Today those FDR type reminiscences are about Ronald Reagan. So any attempt to equate now with fifty years ago is silly and, on the part of GOPe, a sign of desperation.


22 posted on 12/04/2015 3:26:36 PM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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It’s only the second coming of Barry Goldwater if we have the second coming of Lee Harvey Oswald first.

Now, I’ve been saying for a couple of years that that’s the final act of Plan Obama. The people who invented “Obama” have gotten themselves into a tight spot because of his misbehavior, and a Reichstag fire with “Obama” starring in the role of the Reichstag would be a way out for them.

It could, in fact, be the only way for HDR to prevail next November.

Let’s hope the Secret Service is on their toes.


28 posted on 12/04/2015 3:37:45 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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But this time Goldwater wins.
No martyred young prez.
43 posted on 12/04/2015 6:58:06 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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